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  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,488 Swaye's Wigwam
    Tent - State or USFS Campground
    I am fine with a tent, but no more sleeping on the ground. I need me a blow up air mattress.
    I was at Dawgs Under the States with the gf a few years ago and we boned on the 50 yd line after watching Finding Nemo!
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,782 Swaye's Wigwam
    Tent - State or USFS Campground
    El_K said:

    I am fine with a tent, but no more sleeping on the ground. I need me a blow up air mattress.
    I was at Dawgs Under the States with the gf a few years ago and we boned on the 50 yd line after watching Finding Nemo!

    you filleted her?
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,624
    Last time I slept in a tent was in Europe 25 years ago. My wife has been pushing for a motor home, and while it sounds intriguing, neighbors on both sides have them, and spend more time taking them to get worked on than they do traveling in them. I am old, and soft as fuck...
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Fishpo31 said:

    Last time I slept in a tent was in Europe 25 years ago. My wife has been pushing for a motor home, and while it sounds intriguing, neighbors on both sides have them, and spend more time taking them to get worked on than they do traveling in them. I am old, and soft as fuck...

    Motor homes are the new boats.

    The best two days of your life: the day you buy it and the day you get rid of it.
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    We had a camper when I was a kid. Big one. We'd load that thing on the Jeep J20 and head up in the hills, find a landing on the end of a road, put the jackstands and sawhorses down, and take off in the Jeep to go 4-wheeling or hunting grouse or finding chanterelles. Most of my best childhood memories are of camping/fishing/hunting trips.

    I only camp once or twice a year any more, but I still dig it like I did when I was a kid. I don't think I'd use an RV enough to justify the headache of owning one. A tent, air mattress and camp stove gets the job done.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    Rough Car Camping
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    Last time I slept in a tent was in Europe 25 years ago. My wife has been pushing for a motor home, and while it sounds intriguing, neighbors on both sides have them, and spend more time taking them to get worked on than they do traveling in them. I am old, and soft as fuck...

    Motor homes are the new boats.

    The best two days of your life: the day you buy it and the day you get rid of it.
    This. I can see buying some cheapo throwaway travel trailer where you don't care about the depreciation and beat on it. But I hear nothing but horror stories regarding motor homes.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,725 Founders Club
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    We might rent a RV one of these days. Buying seems foolish
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
    RV or Van
    RVs in my experience don't have the build quality to hold up to the type of use they're made for...basically any use at all.

    Air conditioning can be a nice thing if you're camping in extreme heat like when we used to go to the SE Idaho dunes in July. I can't see any other reason for me to have one. A 4x4 van tricked out to hold and quickly unload a nice tent site with a group shelter and tables, etc, a kitchen setup that can fold outward off the side, outside shower, space to sleep in a pinch, and a boat behind it are ideal. Basically everything about an RV can be done better like this aside from indoor, air conditioned sitting space which is rarely needed.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Tent - State or USFS Campground
    chuck said:

    RVs in my experience don't have the build quality to hold up to the type of use they're made for...basically any use at all.

    Air conditioning can be a nice thing if you're camping in extreme heat like when we used to go to the SE Idaho dunes in July. I can't see any other reason for me to have one. A 4x4 van tricked out to hold and quickly unload a nice tent site with a group shelter and tables, etc, a kitchen setup that can fold outward off the side, outside shower, space to sleep in a pinch, and a boat behind it are ideal. Basically everything about an RV can be done better like this aside from indoor, air conditioned sitting space which is rarely needed.

    Things people from the south don't say
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