{"id":4505,"date":"2011-01-13T03:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2011-01-13T03:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:57:28","slug":"tweener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/tweener\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweener?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just finished up a blog post by Nick about being a \u201ccamper\u201d or an \u201c RV\u2019er\u201d.\u00a0 Essentially he boils it down to \u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a difference between campers and RVers. I define RV<\/strong> campers as people who have an RV<\/strong> of some kind, anything from a pop up tent trailer<\/strong> to a motor home, who spend a few weekends a year<\/strong> in a campground or state park, and maybe take a week or two vacation with their RV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

RVers, on the other hand, are those of us who either live in our RVs fulltime, or else spend several weeks or even months at a time<\/strong> traveling and living in our homes on wheels. Because to us, that\u2019s what our RVs are<\/em>, homes on wheels. Some of us travel around a lot, while others may go to a favorite RV<\/strong> park and stay for an extended period of time<\/strong>. Hopefully, we did a lot<\/strong> of homework before entering the RV<\/strong> lifestyle, and did some advance preparation before hitting the road.\u201d\u00a0 You can read the rest of his blog here: campers-and-rvers<\/a> .<\/p>\n

I on the other hand must be a \u201ctweener\u201d \u2013 someone that has spent a lot, 60years and counting, of my time<\/strong> doing both.\u00a0 I do not remember the first 3 years of my life but I am told that we lived in a 20+ ft trailer<\/strong> in all the towns of NW Oklahoma while my father was a\u00a0 \u201clineman\u201d for \u201cthe phone company\u201d.\u00a0 I think that we actually started out living in hotels and rented rooms as they had a picture of me sleeping in a drawer made out to be my bed.\u00a0 I also have a picture of where I am maybe 2 playing out front of our trailer<\/strong> in some western Oklahoma town.\u00a0 So I started my life as an \u201cRV\u2019er\u201d although back then I think we were called \u201ctransients\u201d.\u00a0 Somehow I like the newer term.<\/p>\n

As we transitioned from living on the road to living on the farm, when Dad took an installers job, we still continued the travel but then it turned into \u201cvacation weeks\u201d.\u00a0 Some of our finest memories were traveling in the \u201chome-made\u201d covered wagon.\u00a0 Dad and several friends that we traveled with had made masonite ends for the pickup beds and the bought tarps to stretch over the hoops they put in the stake holes and that was our home<\/strong> for those travel weeks.\u00a0 Of course that, over time, progressed each year<\/strong> to more elaborate digs.\u00a0 In the 60\u2019s we built a\u00a0 large box for the back of the pickup that we could put in and pull out when we were ready to travel.\u00a0 It was larger because the family<\/strong> was larger now.\u00a0 One\u00a0 of us slept in the cab, two on the floor of the bed and Mom and Dad had a mattress laid across the bed at the front.\u00a0 During all these years I guess I was a \u201ccamper\u201d.<\/p>\n

We continued this style until I went away to college and during my first year<\/strong> of college the farm was nearly wiped clean by a tornado.\u00a0 This disaster causes us to revert back to \u201cRV\u2019er\u201d as the only thing we had to live in was a borrowed, converted school bus.\u00a0 Granted it didn\u2019t move from the farm but that was our living quarters, just like RV\u2019ers we lived in the Bus, had meals cooked there etc until we could get a few things working int he house<\/strong> \u2013 first up was the bathroom for showers then the kitchen for meals but sleeping and most living, if you could call it that, was in the \u201cBUS\u201d.\u00a0 This lasted for a few months until the insurance company came up with a trailer<\/strong> house<\/strong> \u2013 about 14 by 70 for us to live in while we re-built.\u00a0\u00a0 All this going on while we also tried to run the farm, harvest the crops, get the fields ready for the next year, etc.<\/p>\n

It was during the next years that I really moved away from home<\/strong> and did very little camping as I was busy trying to prove my worth in a summer intern job that had a guarantee of employment when I graduated.\u00a0 I was also trying my best to graduate to get that job.\u00a0 I got that job and moved on and then out of Oklahoma to Colorado.\u00a0 Once there we were in the land of constant vacation, at least to me.<\/p>\n

Once in Colorado we made it to our first summer with out anything more than Saturday ski trips (with packed lunch as we were still poor).\u00a0 But in the first summer, actually early spring we gathered enough cash to buy a tent and sleeping bags so we started \u201ctent\u201d camping when ever we could get away.\u00a0 That moved to \u2013 back of the \u201cramcharger\u201d camping then I found a used 18ft camp<\/strong> trailer<\/strong> that I bought for not much and we were moving up.\u00a0 We camped in that trailer<\/strong> every weekend we could get away, which was a lot<\/strong> back then.\u00a0 So we were \u201ccampers\u201d again.<\/p>\n

At a critical point in this I was given a manager job (still low pay) in a town about 150 miles from where we had a house.\u00a0 No problem, just take the camper up there and live in it.\u00a0 Which I did, although with a small child my family<\/strong> did not live with me all the time.\u00a0 That worked for about 4 months until a \u201cblue-norther\u201d came through, blew out the pilot lights in the heat and water heater while I was away for the weekend.\u00a0 When we got back to the trailer<\/strong> and found it cold I ran around and light all the pilots and went off to work.\u00a0 About 2 hours later my wife comes to the office and says there is water running everywhere.\u00a0 That ended my \u201cRV-er\u201d living for a while.\u00a0 Shortly after that I transferred to another office that was only 50 miles away and I commuted daily to that one<\/strong> and we went back to \u201ccamping\u201d after I fixed the frozen pipes and water heater.<\/p>\n

As with all things, life changes and so do jobs and I ended up taking a job that transferred me out of Colorado to Texas and we continued the \u201ccamping life\u201d but had to go through a progress again.\u00a0 From borrowed pop-ups, to back of the pickup, to having our own trailer<\/strong> again.\u00a0 We used the 24ft trailer<\/strong> almost as much as the old 18ft one<\/strong> and then it struck again.\u00a0 I was moved from one<\/strong> location to another that was about \u00a0\u00a0away.\u00a0 When you moved out of a depressed area your house<\/strong> will not sell and you can\u2019t afford to just buy another one<\/strong> so you do what you have to.\u00a0\u00a0 I again became and\u00a0 \u201cRV\u2019er\u201d as I found a spot,moved the trailer<\/strong> to it \u2013 full hookups \u2013 and lived in it for 6 months while we waited on the house<\/strong> to sell.\u00a0 Granted the family<\/strong> did not move down right away but after the first of the year<\/strong> we moved them down to start in school at a break.\u00a0 From that point on it was 4 people, a dog and a cat living in the 24ft camp<\/strong> trailer<\/strong> for a little over 3 months.\u00a0 Fortunately, we had moved south enough that the winter was not brutal and with some prep we were cozy and secure in our very limited home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Once the old house<\/strong> sold we bought a new one<\/strong> and went back to \u201ccamper\u201d status for several years progressing through the trailer<\/strong> to a used gas motor home<\/strong> and now to a nice diesel pusher motor home<\/strong> but we are still \u201ccamper\u201d status.\u00a0 The plan when we bought the pusher was that at some point we would be \u201cextended camper\u201d or \u201cRV\u2019er\u201d in that nicer unit for our retirement.\u00a0 I am not sure we will ever move to \u201cfull-time\u201d now, as we tend to like the place we have landed to live, and only want to be away for some extended trip times to see things we have not seen.\u00a0 With a base to call home<\/strong> and a place to come back to we seem to be most happy. Although being full-time<\/strong> would not bother me at all for the next ??? 20 years, I have to agree that family<\/strong> things, doing some things that you like and want to do, etc. weigh heavy on what your life-style will or should be.\u00a0\u00a0 So our future is going to be as \u201cTWEENER\u201d for we will live in the RV<\/strong> on extended periods when we can, but will always have a spot to come back to when we need to.\u00a0\u00a0 – WD0AJG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finished up a blog post by Nick about being a \u201ccamper\u201d or an \u201c RV\u2019er\u201d. Essentially he boils it down to \u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a difference between campers and RVers. I define RV campers as people who have an RV of some kind, anything from a pop up tent trailer to a motor home, who spend a few weekends a year in a campground or state park, and maybe take a week or two vacation with their RV.<\/p>\n

RVers, on the other hand, are those of us who either live in our RVs fulltime, or else spend several weeks or even months at a time traveling and living in our homes on wheels. Because to us, that\u2019s what our RVs are, homes on wheels. <\/p>\n

“And Now the Rest of the Story – “Tweener?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,15],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbs","tag-hf","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nTweener? - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/tweener\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tweener? - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just finished up a blog post by Nick about being a \u201ccamper\u201d or an \u201c RV\u2019er\u201d. 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