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I discovered on Friday that as of May 1st campgrounds are now open in Kentucky and Tennessee. Not wanting to miss out getting away I’ve reserved a week at a campground I visited last year in Gatlinburg.
This is a full hook up campground.
I’m posting some pictures of how I go camping but I would like to hear from other campers on....
How you camp.
What you do while camping.
Where your best campground experience was.
How often you go camping.
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My camper is a 30 foot Keystone without a slide out.
 
Keystone19250 said:
I discovered on Friday that as of May 1st campgrounds are now open in Kentucky and Tennessee. Not wanting to miss out getting away I’ve reserved a week at a campground I visited last year in Gatlinburg.
This is a full hook up campground.
I’m posting some pictures of how I go camping but I would like to hear from other campers on....
How you camp.
What you do while camping.
Where your best campground experience was.
How often you go camping. View attachment 5503View attachment 5504View attachment 5505View attachment 5506
My camper is a 30 foot Keystone without a slide out.
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Dang, really roughing it there. :)

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When I was a kid (12ish) my paperboy group went camping on a flat space of land about thirty
feet above the eastern shore of Lake Erie. It was a weekend after our Saturday papers had been
delivered. We had pup tents, sleeping bags and blankets. A small fire and Sterno stoves.

Oh, yeah! It was January. Once you got the snow/ice cleared from the ground it took a while to
beat the tent stakes in and get the tents raised in the howling wind. Temperature was way below
freezing and the chill factor friggin' cold! But as they say, it made men of us. WAY too soon as
I think about it.

While in Indiana I got the urge to camp again. Remembering the Lake Erie experience I bought a
28' motor home....... Yeah baby! Single too..... GF's loved it. Reassigned overseas, sold it. Next time
I get the urge to camp I'll rent a cabin someplace.
 
Wirenut said:
Being an outdoorsman I enjoy camping and fishing, my wife on the other hand says the closest she will get to camping is a Holiday Inn.
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I think of my travel trailer as a holiday inn on wheels. As the pictures show I have a generator to use where I may not have power. I changed out the thin mattress that came with it and put in a queen size foam Posture Pedic. It also didn’t come with TV’s but I installed one in the living area and 1 in the bedroom both hooked up to there own VCR’s
It’s what is known as a double bunkhouse but I use that area for storage. My plan is to make something in the lower bunk area where I can build a secure, lockable storage for my firearms.
 
Family of 4
10 person tent for the “stinky” boys: son and I
10 person tent for the wife and daughter
We use large tents so we can play cards and have room at night or rain
We have a portable grill and wife brings 4 large bins of stuff. She’d bring the sink if she could kind of camper.

we camp 4 times a year on average

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I have done a lot of " roughing it " camping in my younger years. Had great times too but now it is all I can do to get up and down . Well the getting down is still easy , I just don't get back up so easy. Also being on oxygen and using a c-pap machine at night would require a setup like opening post.

I have always had good times while camping . The best has to be when we were tent camping in Yellowstone and the Moose stomped the lawn chair into scrap.
 
Last summer, unbeknownst to the wife, I was looking at the single-axle Winnebago 1700BH to use for weekend trips to Mammoth Cave nat'l park. It has the queen-sized bed in the fwd area, and the bunk beds (hence the BH designation I guess) in the aft area that the grandsons would use. The things that kept me from buying it, was (1) the cost, as I know I wouldn't use it enough to get a return on my investment, (2) I really don't want to tow anything again. One of the reasons I'm selling my jon boat. (3) I don't have a place to park it. I even searched the local area for those indoor RV storage places. Not into helping the owners pay their mortgage, so that was a no-go.
 
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ScottJ said:
Last summer, unbeknownst to the wife, I was looking at the si gle-axle Winnebago 1700BH to use for weekend trips to Mammoth Cave nat'l park. It has the queen-sized bed in the fwd area, and the bunk beds (hence the BH designation I guess) in the aft area that the grandsons would use. The things that kept me from buying it, was (1) the cost, and I know I wouldn't use it enough to get a return on my investment, (2) I really don't want to tow anything again. One of the reasons I'm selling my jon boat. (3) I don't have a pkca to park it, I even searched the local area for those indoor RV storage places. Not into helping the owners pay their mortgage, so that was a no-go.
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BH Is the bunkhouse designation, and a single axle is something you want to avoid. Flat tire and you are not moving it till you change it out. Dual axle which is what I have is flat tire you can drive slowly to the best area to work on it.
 
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