After nearly 35 years touring we decided to give up touring, Our 2 children are now grown up and now live different parts of he country. l am now retire d and being a ex HGV driver for over 40 years just don't want to tow anymore. Sold my VW Tourage to my daughters boyfriend, our tourer is on a seasonal pitch in Cheshire, our ideal site for the both of us not far from home. But now we decided to sell our Lunar Delta RI basically everything sold with the Lunar.
Because we love the site we are on, we have made many friends the last 15 months or so, that the opportunity for a static caravan to buy came our way.
So without hesitation we bought it move in next Friday can't wait.
We have advertised our Lunar here on UKcampsite and other social media.
The site we are at is Pickmere Caravan Site near Knutsford.
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Well TonyDD.
I can understand the difficult decision you have had to make
After 35 years of touring .
Sometimes in Life we all come to a Crossroads
Where we have to choose the Right way .
The Old saying .
"The Time Has come my Friend "
Happens to us all who retire .
But I think personally
You have made an Excellent choice
So I can only wish you all the Best
With your New Static Caravan
At Pickmere Caravan Site .
It's a Lovely Area of Cheshire .
I Know It well .
Well done. Wishing you many happy times on your next camping adventure. We've just done a similar thing. Sold the big caravan and bought a static. But we also bought a small 20-plus year old tourer to put up the drive for odd weekends for when we fancy a change. It came into its own last weekend when we went to see a band in Edinburgh. £218 for one night in a hotel or £56 for 2 nights in a caravan site. No brainer.
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!
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!
Like the others have commented, rather than to stop camping altogether, I found a way to continue to enjoy camping by switching unit, from being a tenter to a tin-tenter!
Good luck to the OP and enjoy your static caravan!
DK
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Topic: Time to give up touring
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