I’ve got a few emails and visitors asking about my RV right now. I’m the last guy ya want to ask about RV life; when it comes to RV’s… Cederq is the King Of The Road! He goes out on the long hauls with a trailer and a boat and a cargo trailer strung out behind - and he can spin it all on a dime, backwards, forwards and all the directions in between. I am but a mere piker in the RV/hobo life… but even so I can still be part of the scene.
The Dawgmobile is an 08 Toyota Tacoma, and the
Forest Deployment Module is a Rockwood A Frame.
Kitchen table up front, kitchen in the middle, queen size bed in the back.
No chitter, but has outside shower and spray hose, microwave and tiny fridge.
I guess Hannah is driving today…
It’s a great weekender for two people… maybe a week… but then you’re ready to go home. It’s complete Valhalla for the ordinary solitary Stubfart though. Turn the furnace on and I’m good down to about -10C. In blazing summer with air conditioning I’m good up to about +30C. For me to set it up, the total time elapsed is about a half hour from parking to the point where I’m in my easy chair with a drink or a coffee. Cut that in half if I rush. Double it if I’m putting up tarps, awnings, chairs, mats and all the “glamping” stuff. I’m never in a rush so it’s all the same to me. I’m used to camping in a tent… but that isn’t the same as it was either. I’m subscribed to this clipper on OyTube that lives in Korea. All he does is cook and eat when he goes camping but psychological decompression works differently for everyone. The new era tents are inflatable. I’ve seen him out in -20C in these tents and they work like a hot damn.
He’s got his set up down to a science. The chit this kid cooks would gag a Texan - or…would it? Those guys’ll eat everything up to and including insectile xenomorphs. But could they eat the tentacles? This kid will - with boiled cabbage! Hell’s bells…y’know I think I finally found someone with even more disgusting feeding habits than my own! Even his fifi-dog eats like that too!
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I wouldna thunk it possible!!! Just think if this kid could cook GOOD food! He certainly has the culinary equipment for it! I think this might be a great way to go for the piker camper too!
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So today… among all my other chores… is unloading the camper and setting it up for the next run. I hope you fellas have some good plans to get out of the house this summer too.
Cheers!
Filthie
I like it inside. I've had enough of camping when I was growing up.
ReplyDeleteThe deal with camping is that you're trading a certain amount of comfort and convenience for some nebulous, mercurial experience that the camper claims is pure enjoyment. Me, I've never had that experience. But...
If I ever decided to go camping, it would definitely involve a dog, isolation, and sporadic inclement weather. I'd much prefer an RV of some sort, but I could tolerate a pop-up tent on a trailer, or even a erect it yourself type of tent with a serious off road 4x4. A small one.
Texans would pass the tentacles to the Cajuns over in Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteThat little pop-up looks good for a weekender, but I wouldn't want to spend more than that in there.
ReplyDeleteI think most bigger RV's (especially in my price range) are just a little too much for a simple weekend camper (2-3 day trip) but not quite enough for any extended trip (more than 7 days). Five to six days seems to be a sweet spot for the fun/hassle ratio. I've debated planning a 2 week trip but I'm pretty sure the wife wouldn't put up with it and I'd probably get pretty tired myself.
The bonus over renting a cabin is that I can shit in my own toilet and sleep in my own bed. I have serious issue when traveling that I simply won't fall asleep in someone else's bed. I'll lay there all night and just stare at the ceiling. We've done the cabin rentals before and now I'd rather just tow my own cabin, thank you very much.
Also in Texas, A/C is a must during 8 months of the year. So yeah, no more tent camping.
Thanks Glen. Love to read more about your adventures with the trailer set up. Cheers, KA
ReplyDeleteI would welcome you next to my campsite and would invite you to sit, have a coffee/beer/pop whilst watching the campfire and contemplating life's folly and woes and we can come to a consensus as to how to remedy back to a normal ways of life like it was back in the 50s/60s and I wouldn't make no more than one or two snide remarks about your choice of a camping trailer and then call it peace...
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