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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby greygoos » Thu May 17, 2018 7:05 am

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Bill n Robi » Thu May 17, 2018 8:33 am

I still shake my head every time I see a giant RV in a campground and no one comes outside for 2 or 3 days. Why? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby dutrisac24 » Thu May 17, 2018 9:32 am

We always joke about the name of the giant RVs... like the Disrupter, Intruder, dominater, Conquest etc.
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby NorthEGPhoto » Thu May 17, 2018 10:13 am

large motorhomes seem great until they show up in literally the middle of the night blaring music and 3-4 half drunk musicians fall outside and start retching everywhere.

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Sparksalot » Thu May 17, 2018 10:29 am

No one asks for the tour of a motor home.

Many ask for a tour of a teardrop.
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Bill n Robi » Fri May 18, 2018 5:09 am

Sparksalot wrote:No one asks for the tour of a motor home.

Many ask for a tour of a teardrop.

I am stealing that quote, it's going on a t-shirt somehow with a drawing...
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Sparksalot » Fri May 18, 2018 10:39 am

:thumbsup:
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby tiiiiii85 » Fri May 18, 2018 12:32 pm

Bill n Robi wrote:
Sparksalot wrote:No one asks for the tour of a motor home.

Many ask for a tour of a teardrop.

I am stealing that quote, it's going on a t-shirt somehow with a drawing...
Damn, that's a great idea for a t-shirt!

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby tony.latham » Fri May 18, 2018 7:44 pm

To each his own.

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Giant motorhomes don't look like much fun.

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Bill n Robi » Sat May 19, 2018 8:52 am

Twice we have been flagged on thru a wind warning area by CHP - passed a long line of RV's and big trailers stopped on the side of the roadway.

Best one ever though. Stopped in a rest area and was between two rigs. This woman walked past us and said something like "I couldn't camp without the comforts of home" - I said we have everything we need -TV, Stereo, AC, frig, stove, bed. Her reply was - "no toilet though" - which was funny as she was coming back from the rest room. Robi showed up a minute later and said "god, that women was complaining about a short line at the restroom and she could have gone in her RV".
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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby daveesl77 » Sat May 19, 2018 9:19 am

Slow, you are so right!!! We prefer camping in Nat'l Forests, BLM, COE or state parks. Costs for spot goes from $25-$0 depending. We spend most of our time outside, which is kind of the reason to do this. And yes, it is just crazy the number of gigantic, monster things that come rolling in and the complaints. I love reading the complaints...

"Oh, my directTV doesn't work"
"The tree branches scratched my paint"
"The road was too small for my 50' to go down"
"I could not fit my 38" camper and 1 ton pickup in the 25' long site"
"The location was too far off the interstate"
"Why can't I run my generator all night? IT is the forest services fault there is no electricity here"

Meanwhile my complaints about those things are numerous indeed...

I absolutely hate those stupid lights that get strung all around the giant camper and are left on all night. I feel like I'm in Times Square sometimes.
I don't need to see the "exterior" 60" television hanging outside your bus, blaring "wheel of fortune".
I learned to hate the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" due to a multi-night stint stuck between monster motorhomes in RMNP. Every freaking night they played it over and over.
You really brought a 8,000 contractor generator and those 300 watt halogen lights to fire up at a COE campground in Georgia?
Why did you let your grandkids, who were acting like a Mongol Horde, use the bathroom as a playroom?
You have the whole campground and for whatever reason you need to back that giant thing right next to me. Really?

I love driving by a KOA next to the interstate and seeing all those giant things sitting side by side, like a dealership parking lot and it only cost them like $60 per night. What a bargain.

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Bill n Robi » Sun May 20, 2018 10:32 am

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Re: Spending gobs of money on camping

Postby Sparksalot » Sun May 20, 2018 11:29 am

Bill n Robi wrote:For a good laugh:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... nal-parks/


LOL, that was fantastic.
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