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Camping Trips?

Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
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Obviously the virus has put a bit of a damper on big trips, but....You fellow camping folks.....what's on the agenda for trips so far this year?

So far, everything we have booked is later this summer. We've got a a couple weekend stays planned at local state parks and one week long trip that will be split between 2 more state parks. That one will be spent with my brother and his family. I'm really looking forward to that one.

Jon

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    Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭

    BTW, my wife really wanted us to put our camper in a seasonal site this year. With us just buying it last year, I was having none of that.

    That wouldn't have been the worst decision with things going the way they have this year.

    Jon

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    DONDALINGERDONDALINGER Member Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭
    Our first trip in April was cancelled due to the park being closed per our Governor Northam. We have 5 more trips planned and hopefully they will all go as scheduled. First one early June and then one in July, August, September and October. Looking forward to things getting back to normal. Don
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    gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,697 ✭✭✭✭

    We are presently camping in ours for two months in crystal river Fl on the gulf. Wife has more wants than a classified section in a newspaper so I would bet we will be camping a lot more this summer and fall. I like motel and hotel rooms with all the amenities, she likes camping. Guess who is winning.

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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭
    After the 4th of July, back up into the high country of Idaho for ATV rides and fishing. A week out and return home to restock. Then back into the high country. Repeat as necessary.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
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    Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11189807#Comment_11189807

    We went through there in 2017. It was my 2nd time through the Tetons and Yellowstone and the wife's 1st. There's a good microbrewery in Jackson Hole(if your into that). I love the scenery and stuff the parks offer, but my favorite part of the entire area is Beartooth Pass.

    Jon

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    SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,182 ✭✭✭✭
    Alpine said:
    After the 4th of July, back up into the high country of Idaho for ATV rides and fishing. A week out and return home to restock. Then back into the high country. Repeat as necessary.
    That is basically what I want my retirement to be.   Hunting in the fall of course which will also include trips to other states .  Then off to Arizona to quail hunt through the hard winter up north.   
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    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,202 ✭✭✭✭
    Just don't try to buy an RV right now. I read that people are snapping them up as COVID shelters, and it is most definitely a seller's market.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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    Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11189875#Comment_11189875

    That would explain the crazy high prices I've seen people trying to sell their used RV's for then. I just seen our identical camper listed for $2,000 more than we bought ours for....only it was two years older.

    I'm glad we bought ours last year I guess!

    Jon

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    Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,603 ✭✭✭✭
    gjshaw said:

    I like motel and hotel rooms with all the amenities, she likes camping. Guess who is winning.

    I think your wife has the right idea if for no other reason you won't be bringing bed bugs home with you.

    Before I retired I worked out a deal with my company to pay for a travel trailer to stay in while I was out of town instead of renting an apartment or hotel room which I would also keep after I retired. It was cheaper for them and it was better than throwing money away on rent that I'd never get back. I really liked it over staying in a motel room and not having to pack my bags to go home every weekend. But after staying in a travel trailer for 3 years it sorta took the fun out of going camping in one. So I just ended up selling it when I retired. It was nice though. It was 35' long with 2 large slide outs with a queen size walk around bed with a shower that someone 6'-5" tall could stand up in with electric stabilizers, electric awning, and electric jack. 











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    Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,202 ✭✭✭✭
    One of our friends has a big RV that they using to allow a doctor to live in while he is in self-isolation. Doc can't go home to his family, so they offered him the RV for the duration.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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    Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11189880#Comment_11189880

    That's awesome!

    Jon

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    dok2udok2u Member Posts: 100 ✭
    edited May 2020
    Spending a night in a multi-tens of thousands of dollar RV is not "camping."  Camping involves a tent and if you want to go the "luxury" route, maybe a cot rather than sleeping on the ground.  As for me, I gave up my tent when three people were murdered in their tent about twenty feet away from me in my tent one night back in the 1980s.  Oh, almost forgot... yeah you could say I was a little traumatized; the perp used a knife and got blood all over my car as he was running away as cowards do, but I didn't protest or riot.
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    mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,376 ✭✭✭✭
    The problem with RVs......especially for full-time living is NO STORAGE.
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    mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,376 ✭✭✭✭
    us55840 said:
    Been to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole a number of times and Devils Tower, also a few years back made it to Glacier National park.
    Would like to visit Custers Battleground ... not far from Yellowstone as haven't been there yet.  Last time in the area, the temps were over 100 F so decided to pass on the 50 miles to get there.  
    Otherwise, it will be a few short 2 -3 day weekend ventures........maybe make it to Medora N.D. and Teddy Roosevelt National Park.  https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60973-Activities-Medora_North_Dakota.html

    You NEED to visit the Little Bighorn Battleground..........It is amazing. Very moving. They have a GREAT museum with lots of firearms and artifacts. Once you see the battleground, you will completely understand why Custer and his troops were slaughtered.
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    hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,183 ✭✭✭✭
    no thanks, I know people love it but it is just not for me. when I got out of the marines I told myself I would never spend another night in a tent, I haven't broken my promise yet....... much prefer a motel and pool
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    pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭✭

    Wife’s idea of camping matches many other women . $30,000.00 rev is a must . Me I am happy in a nice tent . We don’t camp much ! Compromise is the holiday inn .

    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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    BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,389 ******
    I used to enjoy camping. There are a lot of State Forest Campgrounds nearby and a few that were not well known to the tourists.  Then came the internet and all the tech that came with it.   To camp in these same places now days, it is like trying to enjoy the great outdoors bumper to bumper in a big city subdivision with VERY small lots!   

    I am fortunate to live on acreage out in the sticks. Home Sweet Home never felt so good!
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    susiesusie Member Posts: 7,304 ✭✭✭✭
    Plans this year are to load the kayaks with tent, a fishing pole, a cast iron skillet, cooking oil and taters (other essential side vittles).  Fish and float to a promising gravel bar, cop a squat and enjoy.
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