If a normal RV camper asks an RV boondocker, Why? The answer might be:
The usual answers about crowding, high prices, unneeded facilities, highway noise, etc., are all true, but something is still missing.
But let's reverse the perspective: what do non-boondockers think of boondockers? They are probably too polite to say what they really think: that we are half-destitute low-lifes, loners, Thoreau wannabees, etc. Heck I even feel that way sometimes--especially when camping close to half-crazed desert rats, or old guys in the forest who wear camo.
A recent comment from a reader got me thinking along a certain line that perhaps leads to the real reason for RV boondocking. Someone, perhaps Chesterton, once said that an adventure is nothing more than an inconvenience rightly considered. By 'rightly' he meant romanticized.
There are RVers who think that the conventional RV lifestyle is fine, as far as it goes, but it is too tame and antiseptic. In order to feel inspired they need to rise up in the morning to a certain amount of serendipity and surprise, rather than comfort and security.
The usual answers about crowding, high prices, unneeded facilities, highway noise, etc., are all true, but something is still missing.
But let's reverse the perspective: what do non-boondockers think of boondockers? They are probably too polite to say what they really think: that we are half-destitute low-lifes, loners, Thoreau wannabees, etc. Heck I even feel that way sometimes--especially when camping close to half-crazed desert rats, or old guys in the forest who wear camo.
A recent comment from a reader got me thinking along a certain line that perhaps leads to the real reason for RV boondocking. Someone, perhaps Chesterton, once said that an adventure is nothing more than an inconvenience rightly considered. By 'rightly' he meant romanticized.
There are RVers who think that the conventional RV lifestyle is fine, as far as it goes, but it is too tame and antiseptic. In order to feel inspired they need to rise up in the morning to a certain amount of serendipity and surprise, rather than comfort and security.
In a quad slide, 68 foot behemoth motorhome, "serendipity" is being served french toast instead of the normal eggs-over-easy (emphasis on the "easy")
ReplyDeleteYes it is certainly true that comfort and security come at the expense of serendipity.
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