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An Alternative to Gadget-Oriented Camping

There is only one more day to what I hope is the last real heat wave of this summer.  So it is a good time to watch videos of people installing air conditioners into RVs and powering them with lithium batteries.  It is an interesting idea, but I am likely to hold off.  Being a late adopter is a life-long habit that has served me well. 

But on top of that, I have never owned an air conditioner, despite living in a few places where everybody had one.  (And you know how right everybody is!) Half-facetiously I call this "noble suffering."  More seriously it could be called constructive or creative suffering.

Camping is reduced to scenery-vacationing if it is robbed of creative suffering, necessities of action, and problem solving.  Solving every problem by buying one more damn $600 lithium battery, gadget, or electronic module has become the great vice of modern camping, and it is You Tube videos that are feeding that vice.

So what is the alternative?  This post likely to get too long if I continue along this line of reasoning.  Maybe it is better to let the reader play with that question in their own mind until next time. 



Comments

Anonymous said…
Then you would love the Palomino Pause trailers (not). Their claim to fame is an integrated Garmin operating system that controls everything in the trailer except when you go to the bathroom. It's a very attractive feature for the younger generation looking to get into traveling in an RV. For anyone who has lived/travelled in a trailer for many years, all we see are potential problems with something like that. On AC, we just went through a few days of weather above 100 degrees without AC. The trailer maxed out at an internal temperature of 99 degrees, but would cool off into the low 60s at night. Good thing it was a "dry heat" and we have plenty of fans.🙂
August 17, 2023 at 1:19 PM
kaBLOOnie Boonster said…
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August 17, 2023 at 4:18 PM
kaBLOOnie Boonster said…
Yes, Anonymous, I went over to the Palomino Trailer website. The RV manufacturers are trying to please the new generation, like you said. It is interesting to see generational changes. I roll my eyes at the tastes of the old generation and the new cool, hip, trendy "nomads." But they are all welcome to their tastes, of course.
August 17, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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