Don’t Like - RV Camping
The most disappointing thing about going camping this year wasn’t the fact that we didn’t have a lot of fairly essential gear, like a camp stove, good chairs, and sleeping bags on sub 40 degree nights (we were fine in layers and under four blankets though). It was that the first campground we went to was littered with RVs. I would guess that 90% of the people staying at the campground were staying in an RV. There were a few small trailers but, by and large, people were staying in sizable vehicles. The kind that you need a pretty heavy duty truck to tow. I completely understand why people do it this way. It’s comfortable, clean, warm, and easy. It’s definitely a lot more expensive this way but I suppose you pay for what you get. Although, you also pay for what you don’t get, too. Namely: camping. If going to campgrounds, parking in a parking spot, and sleeping in a vehicle is your thing, have at it. But it isn’t camping, except in some vague sense of remaining persistently in one place.1 It’s not like they teach boy scouts how to hook up to outlets and turn on a video game. Then again, the people in these RVs weren’t boy scout age. They were quite a bit older. So the conveniences provided make a lot of sense. However, it wasn’t the case that every older camper at the site was in an RV, which begs the question: is this camping or just killing time? I’m inclined to believe there’s a difference.
This is the third and last definition of “camping” according to Google.