Stealth camping at a VW event

[David]

This is pretty bad.. I heard about a big VW show this weekend in Texas, so I dove out to it. $10 per night camping, so I'm like ok I'll do it. The first time I ever pay to camp and I drive in the camping area and know right away there is no way I'm doing this..

The camping area is next to a small local airport that is big enough to have small noisy private jets as well as helicopters. Added to this half of the campground is a hill.

I ended up driving into the vending area of the show where all the swap meet stuff goes on and there is a little river that I pulled up on and hopefully don't get run off.

I just do not see how people can pay good money to camp one on top of each other..it was only $10 for the tent style spots, but there were some paying $35/night to have hook ups..

I just don't get it.

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Here I am rolled up like a champ, like I own the place. I even popped the topand have the whole river side to myself.

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[akrvbob]

It's just different strokes for different folks. I'm like you and other than my honey I want a lot of privacy, but many people really do prefer to be on top of each other.

There is no right or wrong to it, just different.
Bob

 

[decodancer]

I used to travel with the dog shows and between rvs and ex-pens full of dogs we were like sardines. I loved it. People would get together to train dogs and eat and drink and it was loads of fun. I live alone and enjoy my own company but a group of like minded people is always a welcome change.

 

[David]

It's just different strokes for different folks. I'm like you and other than my honey I want a lot of privacy, but many people really do prefer to be on top of each other.

There is no right or wrong to it, just different.
Bob

It's very odd tbh, people are packed in like sardines and I guess they like it. Would be one thing if I knew a bunch of people here and set up camp with them, but only Guy I knew that was going is the guy that told me about the show and I don't think he showed up because I've yet to see his van.

 

[Lucky mike]

I dont know........if they catch you at a VW event its gonna hurt!!!!......everybodys gonna hit you and yell....Punch Buggy!!!!!

 

[WheelEstate USA]

At an event where there's camping you can expect it to be packed. Vendors, those who trailered a show car, plus campers can make for a packed site.

Margie and I enjoy the event sometimes, but most of the time we'd rather have our privacy.
This winter we spent a month in a space on the edge of a flea market in Quartzsite. It was a hoot, especially after booths closed at night. Fire pits (old washing machine tubs), BBQs, and potlucks, fun people. Enough is enough sometimes tho and we were glad for some time alone for a while.

 

[Belinda2]

Going up into New York City is very congested with a dog and a travel trailer.
Go to the Middle East and you have zero rights as a woman and plenty of people watching your every move.
Multiply the square footage of New York City and all it's burrows, take all those people and multiply them by 8, that's China's cities. There is no potable water in most of China's cities and only a few American type bathrooms in the whole city. Praise God for the 3 gallon bucket, and a moment of privacy...ha ha ha .
It get's to you after while. What I've learned, before 911, is to dump the travel trailer in New Jersey. I go into New York City and have my fun. Get a whole bunch of fresh food that you can't get anywhere else, for cheap. The streets get the dog filthy, so pad the area in your vehicle and seat belt the dog on the way back to New Jersey. Wash up the dog in New Jersey and cook dinner in sanity.
There is this great sign as you come up the hill, rotting in traffic, to enter Brooklyn, "Welcome to Brooklyn. Yeah, we go that!"
Sometimes to go to all those places for the variety in products, tourist attractions, etc. we have to put up with that. Just enjoy those places and remember, your rubber tires and home aren't far away.
Take care!

 

[David]

I dont know........if they catch you at a VW event its gonna hurt!!!!......everybodys gonna hit you and yell....Punch Buggy!!!!!

Na, I have a VW westy van, that's what I'm using. I just camped outside of where you were supposed to camp. Was no way I was camping on a hill, when instead I could go camp next too the little river/creek and have it to myself.

 

[Patrick46]

Was no way I was camping on a hill, when instead I could go camp next too the little river/creek and have it to myself.

I'm right with ya David!!

Unfortunately, working as a vendor at motorcycle rallys, I'm usually stuck camped right inside my vendor space.

Drunken assh*les, loud yelling women, clowns reving up their unmuffled Harleys, fistfights...I've had 'em all within feet of my tentspace. YUK!!!

Just give me some peace and QUIET!!!!