Tent Camping Verses RV Luxury

We are camped at the beach in Corpus Christi for the next two weeks and yesterday was an RV soup day. By that I mean you stay inside, play games and have hot soup while the elements rage outside your comfortable RV. The picture below was taken about 100 yards away from our RV site.Like many families we started off tent camping. On cold, windy and rainy days we looked with envy at our campground neighbors snuggled in their warm and dry RVs. Tent camping is good in ideal weather but when it turns bad the tents seem to vanish from the campground. A well stocked RV allows you to wait out the storm and continue your family fun. We graduated from a tent to a pop-up followed by a travel trailer, fifth wheels and now a motorhome. Some of our most memorable family times were spent playing games around the RV table. You can do this in a tent, but the lighting isn't as good and when it's raining, cold and miserable everyone just wants to snuggle up in their sleeping bag. Sometime during the middle of the night water seeps through the "waterproof" tent floor and the camping trip is ruined. Not so with the RV next door, where the kids are laughing and having a great time playing Yahtzee and drinking hot chocolate. Tenting can only take you as far as the weather will cooperate. RVing on the other hand will take you through the curtain of wind driven rain to a bright new day. You'll be dry, refreshed and ready for adventure while the tent campers are coping with hanging everything up to dry or packing up to go home. I still rely on a tent when I go backpacking, but during a storm I'll take an RV over a tent any day! Braving the elements in the lap of RV luxury - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing