Extreme RVs

[cabinfever]

Have you seen this reality show? I guess you'd call it that, anyway. I was watching the other night and was just amazed at what they can do with an RV. If I had a few million laying around, I might go for one of those rolling palaces, believe me. I think it would be kind of fun to go around the country and just stay wherever you want.

 

[Hikenhunter]

Yea it might be ok but I figure I'd spent too much time worrying about the damned thing and not enough time seeing the country. Guess I'll stick with the tents a while longer. Less time and money spent on stuff and more time spent on adventuring.

 

[dinosaur]

Sorry, but my idea of an extreme RV is a really powerful dirt bike.

 

[ppine]

Extremely expensive and complicated. They don't fit in most of the good places. A fantasy for rich urbanites.

 

[Grandpa]

You sure don't want to take one of those rigs on the dirt roads out through the sagebrush to get to the canyon with the chokecherry branches hanging out over the road. But that is how you get to where the rainbow trout are jumping in the high mountain lake that is surrounded by pines. And the deer and elk are peeking around the trees to see what you are up too.

Rich guy from the city bought a farm near here. He drives one of those million dollar rigs to the bar on Saturday night so if he has to, he just bunks down in the parking lot till he sobers up enough to go home. Sometimes after the bar closes, the whole party moves to the parking lot with him.

 

[bsmit212]

I think the coolest RV I have seen is one a paddler I know made him self. He got a E350 van with a powerstroke diesel in it. He raised it, converted it to 4 wheel drive, mud tires and kayak rack on the back. He converted the inside to be a little RV. It was a pretty sweet rig in my option.

 

[ppine]

I used to have friend in grad school from upstate NY that was a free thinker. One day he shows up with a big old Dodge 4 door sedan. Then he goes out and buys a hacksaw and goes to work. He removed the back window and the trunk. Then he built a small RV in the back out of scrap cedar. It was done in about a month and he quit school and I never heard from him again.

Back in the 1970s, people built all sorts of RVs by hand. I used to go to the National Fiddling Championships in Weiser, ID. Lots of old buses and flatbeds made into living quarters with wood and stained glass windows. It makes moder RVs look like cheap, flashy Chinese stuff.

 

[carmen]

We have seen a few on other shows but not the one you are talking about. They are nice to look at but I would hate driving it or trying to clean it. How many people really want another "house" to clean while they are trying to be out enjoying Mother Nature?

 

[alex k]

no triple slide / ac / indoor outdoor kitchens / tv's for me .
my teardrop with coleman coolers and white gas stove and lanters works just fine .
my entertainment is a kayak and a hiking pole

 

[BGreen]

Those things are just too big for my tastes. I go camping to rough it. If I wanted a five-star hotel, then I would go to one. If I wanted the comforts of home, I would stay home. To each his own, they say.

 

[ChadTower]

I'd prefer to have the cash so I could put a small cabin on a lake somewhere and stay there for a couple of years.

 

[chuckdee]

I like the look of the plain silver streamlines.



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[Marshmallow]

I love the look of Airstream trailers, but when you get to the giant, really expensive ones, I'm out of there. At some point, the responsibility of owning it outweighs the recreational value of such a vehicle.

 

[Cappy]

Rich guy from the city bought a farm near here. He drives one of those million dollar rigs to the bar on Saturday night so if he has to, he just bunks down in the parking lot till he sobers up enough to go home. Sometimes after the bar closes, the whole party moves to the parking lot with him.[/QUOTE]

Back in my single days I usta do the same thing only it was a 4 wheel drive pickup with a shell on the back, closed many a bar, slept it off and left in the morning. Grabed a shower at a bus station and on the road again.:tinysmile_fatgrin_t That was in my PP days(pre Peg) of road tripping.

 

[Cappy]

Like most of yall if I won one of those big fancy things I'd have it for sale the next day. Ya cant get where I like to go in those things.

 

[ppine]

I am going to a send-off party today for a couple we have known for years. They are ex-Californians that have decided to go RVing full-time. I have seen a photo, and their rig is 40 something feet long and brand new. It will have back-up cameras and 4 slide-outs. I will take the tour of the rig and point a couple of good features, but I think they are a little crazy.

Another couple hit the road a couple of years ago and we have not heard from them since. I think they are having a wonderful time in a much smaller rig.

edit- The friends are doing great. Their rig is currently set up in a casino RV park and they will be there for a couple of weeks before heading out. The rig does have 4 slide outs and a backup camera but they had the good sense to buy an industrial Cummins diesel engine with air brakes.
They have been on many short trips and are living in it full time before the big trip to get familiar with all the systems. Their plan is to go slow and stay in a good place for a month and use the tow-behind car for day trips. Now I don't think they are crazy at all. The're going to start a blog so we can keep track of them. They want suggestions about out of the way places. Bon voyage. Livin the dream.

 

[Cappy]

I have road tripped from coast to coast for anywhere from a week to a month log in a 4 wheel drive pick up with a camper on te back. My pictures were lost from that era water damage and computer crash. I found a picture of one of my trucks on my families web site here is truck and I guarantee ya I couldnt have had more fun in any thing bigger.:tinysmile_fatgrin_t

http://larry74d.homestead.com/files/hunt030.jpg

Here is the rest of the pictures on that page. The old pop up was mine too.:tinysmile_fatgrin_t

Hunting00

 

[ChadTower]

That looks like a heck of a good trip, Cappy.

 

[Cappy]

That was back when I still had a 4x4 pickup. it was ananual week long hunting trip with my 2 God sons They are now both Marines. One reserve one regular both in the corp for 5 years. Both with 2 combat tours and a very Proud God father.

 

[ppine]

Cappy,
I moved to California in 1972 in a 1965 VW bus with all my possessions because the waves were better. It took 6 weeks to get there. We found a place we liked, we would stay for 3 days. The road people were wonderful in those days.

In 1969 I drove to CA in a 1957 Chevy that cost $175, spent the summer there and travelled around to places like Washingtonn State and WY. I was talking to my travel partner Bear recently. He said he thinks about that trip every day.