How communities develope.

A sociologist would have a great time studying the life of the RV crowd. Each little campground is a community. The speed that people become friends and share stories is many times faster than your normal community. Everything that happens in a little town happens ten times faster in a campground. Traveling people are quick to give one another a hand or advice. Start working on your camper, your solar panel, or anything else and in no time someone will be there to help. Someone will show up with the tool or potion you need to fix anything. You get to know people very quickly. People band together to solve problems. Meeting people is very easy. Just about everyone seems to be in a good mood. Back at the Goldfield campground everyone came together quickly to help Bud when his wife died. The speed travelers get to know the town folks also is much faster. People seem to respect each other in campgrounds, they pick up after their dog, they try to follow the generator rules, and generally do the right thing. If there was an equivalent of the old wagon train it would be the modern RV crowd. Just like the old wagon train days the news travels up and down the line. Someone pulls in who is coming from where you are going, and vice versa. What are the roads like what is the campground like, do you know a good dry camping spot?

Campers can probably be divided into three distinct social classes. On the top are the people exuding cash who have to travel pulling everything they own. These people have huge diesel rigs with multiple TV's and make sure they never have to experience the least discomfort. Usually the upper class will not stay anywhere but fist class RV places with all the amenities. The next notch down dry camps and uses the less fancy parks and is not afraid to get wet or step in a little mud. Polishing and shining are the favorite passtimes of the upper class. Another group are somewhat purist about peace and quite. They like to live entirely on solar and don't mind being without hookups. It is a good exchange for a better natural experience.

Campers are very much like sailboats, everything is a compromise. If you get bigger and better stuff, you are excluded from many places because of your size. In sail boat terminology the little boats can gunkhole. That means they can get in and go places the big boats cannot. The same is very true for RV's. The smaller ones have access to many places the big guys cannot get too.

The number of nice people you meet who often become good friends is astounding. When you make the same general circuit every year you run into a lot of the same people and catch up. Life always has it's little ups and downs, but moving around where it is warm is a great improvement over freezing your ass off bored out of your gourd.