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13/6/2022 at 6:43pm
Location: Staithes
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19/6/2022 at 3:17pm
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Do you give up touring or just change the way you do it?
I have been "persuaded" by my wife to give up the caravan just because I am arthritic and 83. Yes I get knackered crawling under the van to put down the steadies, the lifting of the bikes out of the car does take longer and so on. And I do need a rest when eventually set up. But who doesn't?
However,she is now looking at new motorhomes for us to continue to terrorise the French for 90 days a year.
It is not the work on the caravan that will kill me, it is the heart stopping prices of motorhomes!
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19/6/2022 at 4:27pm
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I think to some extent Stuart above has nailed it, rather than just give up on it altogether, have a rethink on how you do it before just giving it all up. We get into routines, and sometimes we really should be reviewing how we do things to take account of being older and sometimes more restricted in what we can do. Isn't a serviced pitch a lot easier than dragging heavy water butts back from the water tap, and waste tanks to the drain, empty the toilet tank more frequently so it isn't so heavy to carry etc., simple changes that make life easier, but still continuing with the lifestyle, just a little tweak here and there. But I fear too many people are just stuck in the ways they've always used, and won't be prepared to change for an easier life.
I certainly don't blame anyone who's fed up with towing/touring, the roads are now nightmarish, my last 2 trips to the Lake District from London both took me over 10 hours (over twice as long as they should have done) because of various holdups, I used to do the same journey towing the boat in under 5 hours years ago! My solution for the return, take the less than obvious route and use a lot more A roads, it's further, but journey time is much less, and the views are better than an hour looking at the back of the same stationary vehicle! It does of course rely on that all but lost skill of reading a map, rather than zombie like trusting the Sat Nav to pick the route! Journeys to the west country from London, or more usually the return journey have been horrible, yet to find a decent alternative route.
I used to like to travel through the night because the traffic was much lighter, but that's become almost impossible these days as so many roads are closed for maintenance, yet all that inconvenient 'maintenance' still doesn't seem to improve most roads above 3rd world dirt track standards!
I wish TonyDD all the best, if that's his considered choice, then it's not wrong for him.
Don't think I'm ready to chuck in the touring just yet, but I certainly shouldn't be asked that straight after over 10 hours at an average of 25mph!
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