Re: Seasonal campers
I have had the same seasonal campsite for 14 years now (I just had a new park trailer installed - see my post at
http://www.rvusa.com/forum/mbbs22/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6555&posts=5#M29184 in General RVing) and love that. Last year was our first year in a travel trailer - I do not recommend seasonal camping in a pop-up eventhough I did it for 12 years. I bought my brother's TT and loved the seasonal camping life so much that in addition to ordering a new park trailer during the off season, I bought a used class C for off season traveling.
I love going new places and meeting new people, but I also love driving familiar roads for 90 minutes on Friday afternoon, hopping out of my Solara or Durango, turning on the water, unlocking the door, and having a 48 hour vacation every weekend without having to do much "work" beyond the first month of the season unless I choose to. With the new, bigger unit having just been installed, I am still working on indoor and outdoor projects. We changed the orientation of our 36' park trailer from how we had our 27' travel trailer. I am hoping to pretty much wrap these projects up during the month of April and have the rest of the season to do what I want to do, not what I feel like I have to do!
My seasonal site is at Smith Mountain Lake in VA. I can pay the lease at the current rate for the next 10 years and won't even come close to spending what a reasonable down payment on a lot would be! I can even add the cost of my new park trailer to that and still only begin to approach the down payment ball park!
I, too, have a shed and am looking at purchasing a golf cart by the end of the month. I have a 17' x 17' deck on my site (I refurbished it last year) and a newly designed fire ring area that I am pretty proud of. I am able to park my boat trailer on my site and have room for others to park as they visit for the day or a weekend. The campground staff and owner are awesome to work with and my neighbors are steady (of the sites in my immediate area, only 1 out of 5 has new folks this season) and family oriented.
As for my class C...it is in the shop having some chassis work done. Once that is all taken care of, I will take over and begin working on the RV side of things. In fact, I am expecting my weekend project load to shift from refining my seasonal site and tweaking my new park trailer to getting my class C ready for the off season.