Adventure Location:
Decatur, Alabama
Date: June 9, 2024
An easy day of little excitement and one good long nap thanks to the antihistamine side effect of sleepiness.
The beginning trail for the walk was a nice dark tunnel in the warm morning air.
A little way from the tunnel we hit the creek side trail where it usually allows some breeze to cool us off. But not today. It was dead calm and high humidity sweaty the whole walk. Check out the calmness in this next picture.
At least we had nice shade on the trail the whole time but a good shower was wonderful when we finally made it back to the Castle and AC to cool us off.
The only other thing of interest was a chance to see how well a truck camper might work for the OFM teams. A big bass tournament is in town and lots of those folks travel with a truck camper in the bed of their truck and pulling their boat. Then the camper is unloaded at the campsite and they run around with the truck towing the boat trailer around during the tournament. We took a slow ride through the short term campground to look things over camper wise.
Once again the OFM Teams voted NO to us using that style of camping for our playing around. It is not a bad way at all according to Mr. Boondork but we have chosen no for the OFM Teams. It was nice to get to see about 19 units in their full glory while camping.
Not much else happened since it was a breeze less hot humid day that made research on the computer inside the AC cooled Castle a good thing to do.
We plan on wearing out some fun tomorrow.
I heard my name mentioned so I figured that gives me the opportunity to put in my long-winded two cents worth.
ReplyDeleteI have found that the truck camper is great for certain things, being able to tow a boat and have a camper to live in, just as you've seen, is a good reason. Cowboys and other horse people can tow a horse trailer and still have a place to live. And dirt bike folks can tow a motorcycle trailer and still have a comfortable place to stay.
For myself being highly mobile so I can go almost any place quickly and easily is the main reason I live in one because that's the way I live during the winter, and I'm willing to give up some storage space for the ease of travel, the better fuel mileage, being able to drive at highway speeds, the ability to park almost anywhere a normal pickup truck can park, a lot less maintenance to worry about. And having everything I own with me no matter where I'm at. Are all things that are important to me because of the way I full-time.
But for living in one place for longish periods of time and not moving every week or three like I tend to do, most any other RV makes more sense than a truck camper because most other RVs are a lot more comfortable for a fulltimer to live in than a truck camper. Not to mention a truck camper requires a lot of climbing to get in and out of, and even more to get in and out of the bed.
Tom
Thank you Tom for the actual user comments. Tom is a good source of truck camper experience if you want more info on them. Click theboondork.com at the start of his comment.
DeleteThat's the thing about RV's, none of them tick all of everyone's boxes. There is always a downside with any one you choose, no matter what. Park model for a base with a van for occasional trips would be one way for you to go.
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