April 3, 2009
Rv Camping
RV camping has become a very popular pastime. RV camping allows those who don't have the interest or physical ability to hike deep into the woods to still enjoy camping. RV camping can still find you in some of the most beautiful campgrounds in the country and right near some of the choicest natural wonders known to man. RV cam ping could be considered by the camping purist to be sacrilege. It really depends on your point of view whether you can condone RV camping. I would say that RV camping is okay for the disabled or the elderly who otherwise could not enjoy even the limited exposure that you get to the outdoors by RV camping if it were not for RV camping. But the other 99% of people who go RV camping should really reconsider what they are doing and what they are teaching their kids.
Oh, I suppose we should congratulate them for at least taking their kids to a state or national park and they do spend some time in the great outdoors at least during the day. but the people who go RV camping and haul along every modern electrical convenience and electronic entertainment device are really missing the point of camping. And the fact that they are sitting out in their bug proof pavilion with their lounge chairs, resting on astro-turf while the generator whines away so they can watch their satellite TV and their kids play video games on the second TV set that is inside the air-conditioned RV, is really disruptive and disturbing to the rest of the campground, not to mention the entire natural environment all together.
RV camping can be such a tawdry affair. What with all the plastic and noise and the use of microwaves to heat up TV dinner. I guess RV camping doesn't have to be totally disgusting, but it it just seems that all of these giant gas guzzling pollution belching RV's are the antithesis of camping. Where you are supposed to be getting close to nature, not be destroying it. It seems that RV camping doesn't teach any respect for the natural environment and that RV camping doesn't afford kids the opportunity to learn anything of value about nature or the creatures who inhabit the woods. Sleeping in your comfy bed, locked inside your metal box means that RV camping cuts you off from the most fundamental and meaningful experiences camping has to offer.
Recommended Reading
- Sane Camping
- Camping Etiquette
- Camping With Your Kids
- Weekend Camping
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