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This is a very interesting discussion, especially because I think in other forums it would have long been locked.
I'm kind of in between the schools here. Part of it could be my age though. I like my lights, every single one of them, but I very much hate the very disrespectful types who were described above.
I grew up in the typical family campgrounds, which I'm thinking aren't the places that most people on here typically go to. In those places, you're really in the minority if you don't have awning lights hung up and on, so it's just something I've become very accustomed to. I really couldn't say if it's still very common these days, but it reminds me of some of my favorite times of my childhood and I want to remember them as best as I can. For what it's worth, I still use the exact same strings of lights... However, they go on in the late afternoon and go off when I go in to bed or shortly before. I rarely ever use the porch light and never leave either on overnight. My lights are fairly simple and just go the length of the awning, plus maybe some ropelighting elsewhere if I feel especially ambitious. I've never worried too much about my lights because in the places I go, I'm not usually in a rustic place. There's plenty of other lights, whether it be street lights, bath house lights, or pedestal lights, so shutting mine off won't make it that much darker, I don't think.
I'm certainly not the type to practically live outside. I've never seen the need for an actual extra refrigerator under the awning and definitely never a TV. I've never had a radio outside even, until getting the outside speakers from the factory on the '07 with the patio party pack.
Granted, I've never figured out, it seems old people are afraid of the dark. They seem like the ones who always leave those awful fifth wheel security lights on along with the porch lights all night long. Boy is that annoying all night long when it floods in between the window coverings.
However, I've had my fare share of kids and adults cutting through the campsite. I certainly understand it if they were to know the people whose site they were passing through, but complete strangers, really? I've chased a few down in my time, and I specifically remember one time. I have a picture somewhere. It was a themed Halloween weekend and I couldn't stand how people were just walking up into the site anywhere. So I roped the whole thing off except for specific entrance and exit paths. Lined it with those candles in a bag too.
We had a situation happen early on that somehow I don't remember. There was a family camped next to us I think in a Nomad TT on the off door side. Things were going good and I don't remember them being especially rowdy but I do remember them having a few kids (this was 1997...). Apparently, during one of the nights, one of their kids, an infant, got sick. Like not good sick. It cried and screamed, and even after turning the A/C on, we still heard it. And they were inside their trailer too. I think it had a massive ear infection in addition to some other serious problems. Apparently it went on for most of the night until they finally left for the hospital or something and then they came back and packed up early the next day. Not totally a rude situation, but certainly inconvenient for those camped close by.
I can't say I've ever had anyone blatantly dump trash in my site though. That sure takes the award. Here I usually walk around the campsite before I leave to A) make sure I have everything, and
make sure I'm leaving it better than I found it. Must be all that Boy Scout training.
I can't believe that rowdy bunch with the huge spot lights. They must have been getting sun tans while playing?
What happened to the days of enjoying a nice evening around a campfire with some s'mores, great stories, and plenty of laughs? I try to do that as much as possible, even though as of late I admit I get some of the rally/socializing take over and then I crash from exhaustion before I can get a fire in
.
I'm kind of in between the schools here. Part of it could be my age though. I like my lights, every single one of them, but I very much hate the very disrespectful types who were described above.
I grew up in the typical family campgrounds, which I'm thinking aren't the places that most people on here typically go to. In those places, you're really in the minority if you don't have awning lights hung up and on, so it's just something I've become very accustomed to. I really couldn't say if it's still very common these days, but it reminds me of some of my favorite times of my childhood and I want to remember them as best as I can. For what it's worth, I still use the exact same strings of lights... However, they go on in the late afternoon and go off when I go in to bed or shortly before. I rarely ever use the porch light and never leave either on overnight. My lights are fairly simple and just go the length of the awning, plus maybe some ropelighting elsewhere if I feel especially ambitious. I've never worried too much about my lights because in the places I go, I'm not usually in a rustic place. There's plenty of other lights, whether it be street lights, bath house lights, or pedestal lights, so shutting mine off won't make it that much darker, I don't think.
I'm certainly not the type to practically live outside. I've never seen the need for an actual extra refrigerator under the awning and definitely never a TV. I've never had a radio outside even, until getting the outside speakers from the factory on the '07 with the patio party pack.
Granted, I've never figured out, it seems old people are afraid of the dark. They seem like the ones who always leave those awful fifth wheel security lights on along with the porch lights all night long. Boy is that annoying all night long when it floods in between the window coverings.
However, I've had my fare share of kids and adults cutting through the campsite. I certainly understand it if they were to know the people whose site they were passing through, but complete strangers, really? I've chased a few down in my time, and I specifically remember one time. I have a picture somewhere. It was a themed Halloween weekend and I couldn't stand how people were just walking up into the site anywhere. So I roped the whole thing off except for specific entrance and exit paths. Lined it with those candles in a bag too.
We had a situation happen early on that somehow I don't remember. There was a family camped next to us I think in a Nomad TT on the off door side. Things were going good and I don't remember them being especially rowdy but I do remember them having a few kids (this was 1997...). Apparently, during one of the nights, one of their kids, an infant, got sick. Like not good sick. It cried and screamed, and even after turning the A/C on, we still heard it. And they were inside their trailer too. I think it had a massive ear infection in addition to some other serious problems. Apparently it went on for most of the night until they finally left for the hospital or something and then they came back and packed up early the next day. Not totally a rude situation, but certainly inconvenient for those camped close by.
I can't say I've ever had anyone blatantly dump trash in my site though. That sure takes the award. Here I usually walk around the campsite before I leave to A) make sure I have everything, and
make sure I'm leaving it better than I found it. Must be all that Boy Scout training.I can't believe that rowdy bunch with the huge spot lights. They must have been getting sun tans while playing?
What happened to the days of enjoying a nice evening around a campfire with some s'mores, great stories, and plenty of laughs? I try to do that as much as possible, even though as of late I admit I get some of the rally/socializing take over and then I crash from exhaustion before I can get a fire in
.
