Who else doesn't "camp"?

[great white]

Similar to as I responded in another thread:

We "camp" if the point of the trip is to get away to a specific camp site or location. 60% of the time that means dry camping in our 35 footer.

We "RV" if the point of the trip is an attraction (IE: grand canyon, Banff, etc). On those trips, the TT is our hotel room (and nicer than any hotel room you're ever gonna get with 3 large dogs).

Then there's the time we move across the continent and the TT is just our hotel room for moving. It's a godsend in those situations. Waiting for a ferry we head on back to the trailer and make a sandwich. Driving down the road we pull over at convenient spots and have lunch or a bathroom break. If we get caught out late a night or we're just too tired we pull over and go to bed. When the truck blew the engine on a trip it became our home for a week while the truck was fixed.

The purpose of the TT adapts to the needs of the trip...hang whatever label on it you want.

[Denise1950]

For now we only go to state parks--and the one national park in Michigan--and it's camping. "Soft" camping, without the tent and air mattress, but camping.

We don't often stray far from the state border in summer. We figure we pay too high a price with our winters to give up a single day of our beautiful summers, lol. Come winter, you can find us off enjoying wam weather somewhere, but we do that in timeshares. Someday I'd love to do a x-country trip in a small motor home, but that'll have to wait till the grandkids outgrow camping with us, lol.

[Oakman]

If you have no other choice but to physically leave your campsite to find a place to go number 1 or number 2, then you’re camping. Everything else is RVing.

[Cajun Po-Boy]

Originally Posted by Oakman

If you have no other choice but to physically leave your campsite to find a place to go number 1 or number 2, then you’re camping. Everything else is RVing.

Well said...

[rockfordroo]

In Europe, they call it Caravaning.

[Mike001]

My 19 year old is away at college, and the subject of camping came up. His friends talked of tenting, backpacking and really roughing it. He was embarrassed to say we "camp" in an 32 foot RV w/ 4 tv's!! He doesn't call it camping, he calls it living with a few less conveniences. LOL

[chiefly1]

It is just degrees of roughing it. I started out in sleeping bags and progressed to tents and as I got older I liked convenience so now I rough it with surround sound and a king size bed! My days of climbing the face of Mt Whitney or Ruth glacier in Alaska are over but I can still get close and rough it with friends around an open fire. I even bought a propane fire in a can to use when the campground has rules against wood fires.

[Salmon Hunter]

To us it is a Motel on wheels that ours friends are also staying at.

[jar3316]

My wife came up with a new one this weekend while out, without the kids, Therapeutic Rehabilitation Retreat.

But I'm sticking with camping. Because we had a bottle of wine and found out we had NO CORK SCREW.

[Badlands]

People can call it whatever they like. Like beauty, it's all in the eye of the beholder. We just tell folks we're out RV'ing, and they all seem to understand what that term is conveying.

I call it 'incredible'! Free to move from location to location, and choose new neighbors every night, if that's our desire! Many of us have progressed from tents, up to whatever we now own. Our creature comforts may have changed, but not the love of being outdoors.