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On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:47:52 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

I am saying I was not willing to drive to those places and trying to
pack your camping supplies on an airplane is not tenable.

At that point you are left with camping where you are willing to
drive.
My neighbor was an RV "camper" . He always had a six figure RV in his
driveway or in a paid parking lot facility (most of the time).
He always ended up losing about $50,000-100,000 when he traded them.
They were a maintenance black hole, got about 4-5 MPG on the road
towing another car. The campgrounds were not cheap and he still had to
buy food in or out.

We sat down and compared his cost to me and my wife, flying 1st class,
staying in suites in nice hotels, renting an SUV and cooking in
or eating out.
We came away cheaper and we got a lot more actual vacation out of our
2 or 3 weeks (unless driving a bus is your idea of fun).

Unless you actually go camping 4 or 5 times a year, locally, the hotel
is always going to be cheaper once you actually add up all of your
expenses..

I love to drive around the U.S.A. Did you realize you can see a lot more
driving than you can in an airplane?

You are not going to see much looking out the window on the
interstate. We drive plenty on these vacations, typically 1500 - 2000
miles but it is around one or two states, very far from here. The
plane gets over a week of driving behind you in 2 half days.
If you actually wanted to investigate every interesting thing you see
and you drive on back roads like we do, it would take over a month to
get to Colorado. That might be great if you were rich and didn't have
any reason to be home.

Harry doesn't like to see anything either. One of the best times I ever
had was my brother and I drove from New York to New Orleans and went
anywhere we felt like. We had a book called Roadfood and went to
whatever town we wanted to check out a food place, plus whatever we
wanted to see. Two weeks to get to New Orleans, where we stayed for
another four days. Met many people along the way that I'm still in touch
with, saw a lot of local things that you wouldn't have seen if you
hadn't spent time with the locals, etc.