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View Poll Results: How long have you been RVing?
Less then one year 53 13.25%
One to three years 47 11.75%
Three to six years 55 13.75%
Six to ten years 32 8.00%
Ten to fifteen years 50 12.50%
Fifteen to twenty years 33 8.25%
Twenty to thirty years 45 11.25%
Thirty to forty years 47 11.75%
Forty to fifty years 30 7.50%
Fifty plus years/ I`m older then Methuselah! 8 2.00%
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Old 06-11-2012, 11:02 AM   #1
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How long have you been RVing? Poll

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Old 06-11-2012, 11:08 AM   #2
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36 years, since around 1976 when my dad brought home a 1969 12' Coachmen pickup camper. It sat atop a 1975 F250 Ranger XLT Camper Special. Always fun to have us 3 kids (and usually friends) a few dogs all cooped up in this camper with NO A/C, but the inside gas lantern was always fun!
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Old 06-11-2012, 11:18 AM   #3
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My parents had a used small "Monitor" TT back in the late sixties that we camped in and that`s when I got started. Long stint after that with tents before buying a used Coachman TT in `08. Sold that and bought the Jayco in `09.
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Old 06-11-2012, 11:28 AM   #4
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If I counted when I was a kid than it would be over 40 years. My parents had pull trailers and we would usually go to the coast every year for a week or two. But I didn't get my first rv till 1981 it was a 17 komfort. Sense then we have owned pull trailers, cabovers and 5th wheels. We would rather pull our own junk around and stay in it than fly in planes and stay in motels.
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Old 06-11-2012, 12:44 PM   #5
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My parents bought our first travel trailer in 1984. A 1978 24' Terry. Nice camper but no A/C and we always had a roof leak it seemed no matter how many times Dad would try to fix it, it would move somewhere else. Just a tip we learned from this one, if you look at a camper and see that it has leaked, don't believe them when they say "Oh, but it is fixed now." - and that was family.
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Old 06-11-2012, 05:02 PM   #6
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OK, I skewed the poll a bit...I chose 50 years, and it is partially true....first RV trips started in 1957 with my parents and the next time was in 2001 with my grandkids so there was a 40 or so year break but in all those years, I dreamed about RV'ing....took that long before I started renting then finally buying an RV.
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Old 06-11-2012, 05:13 PM   #7
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We started out in 1971 with an APACHE tent trailer. Moved to a pop-up in 1973 and it's all been uphill since. 3 TT, 2 FW and now on our 2nd MH. We took our eldest camping at 6 months and our youngest was only 3 weeks old for his first trip. Must have done something to them, they both now have their own units.
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Old 06-11-2012, 06:07 PM   #8
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I remember camping in a tent or sleeping in the back of a station wagon prior to being a teenager. This puts the time as more than 53 years so I must be this old.

Since then have always be tenting, pup, class A & B, or TT. Now I have a palace on wheels and claim I'm camping.

My kids can claim since they were 3 months old so the youngest now has 29 years.
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Old 06-11-2012, 07:40 PM   #9
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We started about 1970 with a well made tent camper. It took about a half hour to set up and wasn't used much. By the mid 70's we had an 8' pickup camper and have been camping a lot ever since.
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Old 06-11-2012, 07:55 PM   #10
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I took my first camping trip at 4 months old in 1983 with my parents, been camping ever since then
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My first camping trip was with my parents in a 1951 Olds 2-door sedan somewhere around 1955. Dad took the partition out between the back seat and the trunk, and put a piece of plywood and a mattress in for the three of us to sleep on. Our feet were in the trunk, and it was pretty comfy and a lot of fun. We spent a month touring the West, and saw most of the National Parks out there. My Granddad sold vacation trailers in the late 50's, and we had a succession of them over the years. My wife and I have camped in a series of 4 units over the last 30 years, culminating in our present 2004 Designer 5er. It's been a blast, and we hope to keep on camping as long as possible, and when we can't drive anymore, we'll camp in the field. Wagons Ho !!
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we started out back in the 60's if i remember correctly it was with a Sears 600 camper, correct me if i am wrong about the Sears 600. then moved on to a 1969 Shasta 15 foot camper that we slept 6 of us in. don't know how we did 6 of us in that thing. by the way my dad still has it and my sister is going to the shore this friday with it. i still love my Jayco 22fb.
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If you count when I was a kid, we started in 1967, first couple years with a tent, then into a Suncamper pop-up. By 1976, it was a 24ft Master Coach TT. After that, quite a few years of occasional tenting, then got the Jayco 22FB in late 2010. Over the years, been as far south as Key West FLA, as far north as the roads go in Ontario, and as far east as the roads go in Nova Scotia. Need to work on stuff west of the Mississippi.
P.S. I got to drive from time to time, when towing the Master Coach. I love towing.
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Old 06-12-2012, 01:19 PM   #14
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I checked 10-15 years but that is only the length of time that I have been RVing as an adult/owner. I started out RV camping when I was around 6 or 7 years old so my real answer would be in the 35-40 year range.
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Nooooooooooobody in the six to ten year range?
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started out in the 50's in a 41 packard with the back seat opened up to the trunk where we layed out sleeping bags for a place to sleep while on fishing trips to Wyoming later graduated to a old dodge van converted. In the 60's after getting out of the military I bought a wrecked tear drop trailer and rebuilt it. Been RVing ever since Pickup truck campers, Motor Homes, travel Trailers, and 5th wheels.
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My parents was camping with me when I was less than a year old. That was back in 73. I had a problem with ear infections, and camping in a tent was not working for me. They bought an Apache popup and literally wore it out. It just grew from there with TT to motor homes, and everything in between. Even when I was 16 and got my drivers license, I had a Dodge D50 that I put a topper on and slept in that camping.

The last camper my parents had before mom passed away was a Jayco 19H, that I used all the time. This spring when I went to buy my own, I bought the same unit I like it so much.
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I have been camping with my first family since 1952- Before that I "camped" with Uncle Sam from 47 through 51- My second family and I have had 6 different camping units- We will have been fulltiming for 13 years on July 1- Still have the "fever"- Is there a cure? If there is, I don't want to be cured- JMHO- DD
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Born July 9th 1975, my parents took me camping not more then 3 months later in my Grandfather's pop-up. While I remember none of this, they recount the story of freezing their butts off nightly trying to prove that you can take a newborn camping.
Our daughter beat the family record by being the first member (on either side) to camp (tent/rv/otherwise) at less than two weeks old (against her Doctor's recommendation) ... got side tracked ... oh yeah ... so I guess I've been RV'ing my whole 37 years of breathing.
Just never owned one of my own until about two years ago. Glad we made the switch to a Jayco this year. WOW!
Never knew it could be this nice and easy.
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My earliest memory was a Jayco tent trailer and the finger Lakes. In 1971 Our family travelled to Arizona from Buffalo with a Jayco Tent Trailer Gpa lent us from his rental fleet. I still have it etched in my mind, the image of my Dad turning around in Jerome, AZ on the side of a mountain. This unit had the stove that slid outside and the latch had not been secured and had extended fully while we manuevered the then very narrow streets of Jerome. Hence returning whence we came to retrieve the griddles. Good times yeah!
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