HEN IS TOO MUCH... TOO MUCH?
I was checking out some Youtube since we have yet another rainy day to get thru here. One caught my eye, the thumbnail showed a huge behemoth travel trailer trying to make a curve like into a campground or whatever and it obviously was not gonna make it. This is a thorn in my paw as I am not a big fan of oversized rv's and travel trailers. I have watched as the industry has driven the parks and camps to become an urban jungle and been forced to accommodate these misguided couch potatoes to become adventurous.
RV parks, privately owned, is to me the only place these monstrosities should go. Honestly you can't force a square peg into a round hole, so now due to the on slough of urbanites heading for the hills, the parks are changing...now it's reservations, it's high prices, its widening of the roads, it's overcrowding...it's just too much!
Now many parks are more like parking lots...Easy in easy and out for this invasion of outlandish sized rigs to make it not only into the park, but into the camp spots...once in and all the slides deployed it reminds me of Miss Piggy in a low cut dress with everything bulging out, or the local weather man with a suit jacket 2 sizes too small...Kind of disgusting. Once they are rammed into place then they unload the golf cart, the bicycles, the grills, the patio furniture...well it's Home Away from Home; Including the kitchen sink the big screen tv and the lazy boy recliners!!
Meanwhile people like me, pull up in their van, and they can barely edge up to back into their spot cause the RV across the way is bulging out into the road by 5 ft. The string of party lights glares into our windows...and the sounds of their AC or heat constantly shutting on and off is def drowning out the sounds of crickets or the lapping of a nearby shore. The sanctity of the whole camp experience has forever been ruined in main stream America...as with all things the American Dream ruins it for everyone.
So I looked down the line of other similar Youtube and there is lots more than ONE of these "I destroyed my 5th wheel trying to get into Yellowstone." type titles on them. It made me want to barf. Another thing that I saw is this Youtube called Max Recovery. Or something like that....and this guy goes in with all sorts of rescue vehicles to get stupid people's vehicles out of the places they get stuck in....like in a Slot Canyon in Utah! WTH was a guy doing driving a Dodge Ram pick up truck thru a slot canyon??? If he wants to see that slot he should walk thru not try to force a truck thru it and ruin the whole thing for generations to come. That sandstone is fragile at best.
We need to be protected from this stampede of wanna be's. It's the biggest bunch of greenhorns ever to hit the road. It reminds me of the Oregon trail where a bunch of city slicking Swedes decided they had this adventurous spirit and they hooked OX up to wagons carrying pot bellied stoves and went miles...should not have happened...but it did. The can do spirit of humans sometimes becomes should not have done it in history books....look at all the upheaval that came with those ox...tribes forced off their lands and still are.
We need to be protected from this stampede of wanna be's. It's the biggest bunch of greenhorns ever to hit the road. It reminds me of the Oregon trail where a bunch of city slicking Swedes decided they had this adventurous spirit and they hooked OX up to wagons carrying pot bellied stoves and went miles...should not have happened...but it did. The can do spirit of humans sometimes becomes should not have done it in history books....look at all the upheaval that came with those ox...tribes forced off their lands and still are.
Just because we can doesn't mean we should....I would love to see a Limit on the length of rv's and travel trailers. I would like to have parks where they are not allowed...pack them in like the sardines they are in privately owned parks...and leave the fresh air and wild spaces to the light of foot..
I know Im evil.
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