To each his own.
There are some that wouldn't call using a HTT or even a popup camping.
That's one reason we tend to stick to the state and national parks and stay away from private campgrounds. There tends to be more people that are closer to my definition of camping.
My definition of camping is: a temporary activity where you sleep overnight as close to nature as you're comfortable with and closer than you are at home. By that definition, what you describe would fail the "temporary" test and those are just vacation homes that are more mobile than normal homes.
As I get older I think more and more about how nice it would be to just drive up to my camper and start enjoying without any set up at all. If I could find a place on a body of water that allowed unlimited horsepower and other activities that are not available to me at home, that was within 1 1/2 hours from home, it would be very difficult for me to find fault in it.
I do not see the validity to this post...Weather your choice is lean to, tent, pop up, Hybrid, travel trailer or big honkin' fifth wheel...as long as you are having fun what does it matter what you sleep in at night. Everyone is different, that does not make them wrong because they camp differently from me. wolfie
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I do not see the validity to this post...Weather your choice is lean to, tent, pop up, Hybrid, travel trailer or big honkin' fifth wheel...as long as you are having fun what does it matter what you sleep in at night. Everyone is different, that does not make them wrong because they camp differently from me. wolfie
good post!
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Do you consider the permanent season sites and big rig campers really camping?
No I don't. I don't consider it wrong either as someone else suggested. Asking ain't wrong either in my opinion. The more amenities ya have, the more likely you'll be inside, that's my personal observation camp ground'n' amongst older folks in TT & 5th wheels when school is in session. We are all there for different reasons. None of my neighbors use a bow-drill to start their BBQ. That's camping!
I think having a seasonal site is still camping.
It is sort of like having a house down the shore. When you go there are you on vacation or just living in a different house. Also, if you owned property somewhere and left your camper there, are you now not camping?
If a person finds a nice place to become seasonal and can afford it and will use it often.....kudos to them.
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
Our childhood camping experiences often influence our ideas of what really camping is to each of us. My camping began with my parents and camping in a large wall tent at state parks and such. My Dad use to make those summer vacation trips high adventure! As I grew a little older did some camping with the boy scouts and then my brother and I got into canoe camping ... which is still my idea of the real thing. Went into the military and became a grunt who carried EVERYTHING on his back, slept on the ground, rain, wind, shine or snow. And I shall not do anymore "back packing" for this lifetime. But the canoe thing is still my high ideal. The popup camper has best suited my needs for what I do ... it serves as a basecamp.
One of my fly fishing Buddy's bought a piece of land a few years back in the western NC mountains and he hauled a smaller TT (22' ?) up there and set it up sort of permanent like and that's his base camp.
All in all, it get's us to our spot where we like to do what we like to do. And there's nothing like getting out into nature ... trees like God planted them, roaring streams and all kinds of wild critters.
I like these (edited) definitions from Dictionary.com ;D
14.
to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoors, usually for recreation (often followed by out ): They camped by the stream for a week.
15.
to reside or lodge somewhere temporarily or irregularly.
16.
to settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced
We normally state park it, but we do head to a NJ campground full of seasonals ect. My parents park their prevost there in the summer and I have relatives on the water in Toms River. So we visit parents, aunts, and uncles let dog swim in Barnegat or Cedar Creek. Hit up Double Trouble State Park, and enjoy all the other pups, tts, Htts, and Class C thru Prevost throughout the park.
Most people have hit on the same thought: Everybody's got their own idea of camping.
As a kid the idea of AC in a tent was laughable - and this was in a heavy canvas tent. Now I see an AC unit pertruding from a tent and think what a great idea.
As a young adult and avid backpacker I had a comfie bag and 3/4 length Thermarest. Now a queen sized air mattress isn't out of the question.
To me it's not about what we're in but what we do when there.
Let's camp!
As someone who has both a Popup Camper and a Travel Trailer on a seasonal site - my answer is it depends on where you are going with it.
Taking a popup camper to Nascar Event or a Folk Festival - is that camping? It is using your popup camper... Taking your popup camper to a State Park, we probably agree its camping. Does someone who takes a Travel Trailer to a State Park camping?
Let me take my seasonal site as an example. We have a travel trailer (very small, it just a bed, table and toilet, not living rooms and slideouts) up in the Endless Mountains Region of Northern Pennsylvania. The campground is built onto the side of a mountain where each road is a a level going up the mountain. Our seasonal site has a Travel Trailer on it, as well as a attached deck with allows us to have an outdoor kitchen. The campsites are so deep into the woods that most sites can't see each other. Deer regularly cross into our site. On the weekends we go up there, its all about social times with friends eating and drink outside.... isn't this camping?
Its not what you camp WITH, its what you do at the place you camp.....
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