ambulancekidd
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- Sep 23, 2014
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- Swift Kon-Tiki 640
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- Since 1964 Gosh that makes me feel old.
Yes, snobbery does exist big time. In our caravan years we always spoke to our neighbours & made some really good lifelong friends. Now our last caravan outfit consisted of a nearly new Range Rover Vogue SE and a brand new Sterling Elite Explorer twin axle caravan, so not a cheap outfit, but still motorhomer's wouldn't speak. We often tried to talk to motorhomer's but they'd walk past with their noses in the air. Its not as if we're noisy or antisocial. We were always puzzled by this, especially in light of the fact that I'd grown up with "caravanettes" & had been so used to my parents making friends with neighbours on sites. The other oddity we noticed & it almost became a sport for Hazel & I to take a small bet on what time the motorhome folk would close up for the night? Without fail the motorhome blinds, curtains & whatever else were closed up & shut the world out whilst it was still light. We always thought WTF is that all about?
Anyway fast forward 10 years & we have our PVC Sprinter we though oh perhaps motorhomer's would speak now, but oh no, the same system prevailed. So our thoughts have always been to hell with them, if they don't want to speak that's their problem & if they do want to speak then halleluiah we'd found actual human beings in a motorhome.
Now we have bought an Autosleeper Executive built in 2000 & on a frankly bloody awful Peugeot Boxer chassis, but we bought it as a project & are working our way through the problems, but the biggest difference is that everyone else in a motorhome smiles & waves, we always return the compliment. There is still one fly in the ointment though, those with nearly new motorhomes still will not be drawn into conversation WTF is that all about? Folks with older motorhomes are very friendly, but here's the rub, everyone in motorhomes still barricade themselves in at the first sign of the sun going down? Do motorhomers know something that we still don't? Do vampires come out at night & feast on the living with their blinds still open? Are there flesh eating zombies wandering around in the dark looking for a meal? If so then Hazel & I are about to be eaten, bitten or just killed to death by these creatures of the night as we do not close our blinds til bedtime. We think that a camp site slowing down for the night is a beautiful thing. We recently sat in Park Coppice (Cumbria) with the windows open listening to the foxes & wildlife going about their business, it was wonderful to sleep with the windows fully open enjoying the sounds.
So come on folks, drop your guard, keep your blinds open & enjoy the humanity of your neighbours. After all, we're all just doing the same thing, enjoying the country that we find ourselves in & chilling out with like minded folks. Even caravan folks who are described on here in a rather derogatory term as "tuggers" are just the same as you, even if they are a bit in the dark as to the beauty of motorhomes.
Anyway fast forward 10 years & we have our PVC Sprinter we though oh perhaps motorhomer's would speak now, but oh no, the same system prevailed. So our thoughts have always been to hell with them, if they don't want to speak that's their problem & if they do want to speak then halleluiah we'd found actual human beings in a motorhome.
Now we have bought an Autosleeper Executive built in 2000 & on a frankly bloody awful Peugeot Boxer chassis, but we bought it as a project & are working our way through the problems, but the biggest difference is that everyone else in a motorhome smiles & waves, we always return the compliment. There is still one fly in the ointment though, those with nearly new motorhomes still will not be drawn into conversation WTF is that all about? Folks with older motorhomes are very friendly, but here's the rub, everyone in motorhomes still barricade themselves in at the first sign of the sun going down? Do motorhomers know something that we still don't? Do vampires come out at night & feast on the living with their blinds still open? Are there flesh eating zombies wandering around in the dark looking for a meal? If so then Hazel & I are about to be eaten, bitten or just killed to death by these creatures of the night as we do not close our blinds til bedtime. We think that a camp site slowing down for the night is a beautiful thing. We recently sat in Park Coppice (Cumbria) with the windows open listening to the foxes & wildlife going about their business, it was wonderful to sleep with the windows fully open enjoying the sounds.
So come on folks, drop your guard, keep your blinds open & enjoy the humanity of your neighbours. After all, we're all just doing the same thing, enjoying the country that we find ourselves in & chilling out with like minded folks. Even caravan folks who are described on here in a rather derogatory term as "tuggers" are just the same as you, even if they are a bit in the dark as to the beauty of motorhomes.
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