RV Air Conditioners

4 Comments

1. WM

   Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:56 am | Permalink

   JB,

   I just have to throw in one more gripe, since I am on a roll here and you seem to be listening. This is a recent one, that illustrates how out of touch NPS is with preserving experiences in nature, and specifically flagship national parks. Olympic NP has a couple of very narrow discontinuous coastal strips, one is south of the mouth of the Hoh River, where there are named and numbered beaches – eg. “Beach 3 or Third Beach.” There are campgrounds in a couple of these areas, which are all high bank, allowing unobstructed views west across the blue Pacific. If not for the curvature of the earth you could see all the way to Japan (just kidding). Sunsets can be spectacular, and it is neat to watch cloud banks or low fog roll in from the distance from your camp site. The sound of the pounding surf is less than a hundred yards away, with trails down to the beaches which can run for miles at low tide. A couple of these very special campgounds have a few numbered campsites along the very edge of the high bank, and more sites further to the east in the shelter of scrubby trees.

   Huge motorhomes and trailers pulled by large trucks especially like these edge bank spots. They readily occupy them (no advance reservation system). But these guys sometimes stay for as long as the regulations allow. Seven days is what I recall, then they move to occupy another space, or drive around the campground loop to technically reoccupy as a “new” camper the very same spot for another seven days. The problem is these long and tall vehicles totally obstruct the view of tent campers in the more numerous camp sites behind them to the east. And then……there are the generators these RV campers run at all hours from morning (gotta watch the Today show with your satellite TV or run the microwave) to night (video movie sci fi or WFF wrestling), that even drowns out the soothing sounds of the surf. Nothing like returning from an invigorating beach walk, or laying in your tent at night, being forced to listen to some ass- —'s generator or the loud appliances they power until 10 pm, when the regs. finally require them to be turned off. Often even those rules are ignored because there is no ranger working that late to enforce the rule.

   This problem has an easy no-cost fix. No generators and no occupation of certain camp spots by RV’s or trailers. Numerous constructive requests from tent campers have been made to champion this change over several years. Bureaucrats are unaccountable and don’t like change, even if in the best interests of the public and the statutory mission they (are supposed to) serve. Damn two-faced NPS!

2. WM

   Posted February 25, 2011 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

   JB,

   I just have to throw in one more gripe, since I am on a roll here and you seem to be listening. This is a recent one, that illustrates how out of touch NPS is with preserving experiences in nature, and specifically flagship national parks. Olympic NP has a couple of very narrow discontinuous coastal strips, one is south of the mouth of the Hoh River, where there are named and numbered beaches – eg. “Beach 3 or Third Beach.” There are campgrounds in a couple of these areas, which are all high bank, allowing unobstructed views west across the blue Pacific. If not for the curvature of the earth you could see all the way to Japan (just kidding). Sunsets can be spectacular, and it is neat to watch cloud banks or low fog roll in from the distance from your camp site. The sound of the pounding surf is less than a hundred yards away, with trails down to the beaches which can run for miles at low tide. A couple of these very special campgounds have a few numbered campsites along the very edge of the high bank, and more sites further to the east in the shelter of scrubby trees.

   Huge motorhomes and trailers pulled by large trucks especially like these edge bank spots. They readily occupy them (no advance reservation system). But these guys sometimes stay for as long as the regulations allow. Seven days is what I recall, then they move to occupy another space, or drive around the campground loop to technically reoccupy as a “new” camper the very same spot for another seven days. The problem is these long and tall vehicles totally obstruct the view of tent campers in the more numerous camp sites behind them to the east. And then……there are the generators these RV campers run at all hours from morning (gotta watch the Today show with your satellite TV or run the microwave) to night (video movie sci fi or WFF wrestling), that even drowns out the soothing sounds of the surf. Nothing like returning from an invigorating beach walk, or laying in your tent at night, being forced to listen to some ass- —'s generator or the loud appliances they power until 10 pm, when the regs. finally require them to be turned off. Often even those rules are ignored because there is no ranger working that late to enforce the rule.

   This problem has an easy no-cost fix. No generators and no occupation of certain camp spots by RV’s or trailers. Numerous constructive requests from tent campers have been made to champion this change over several years. Bureaucrats are unaccountable and don’t like change, even if in the best interests of the public and the statutory mission they (are supposed to) serve. Damn two-faced NPS!

3. .

   Posted November 26, 2011 at 12:59 am | Permalink

   there was an article in Flying or Private Pilot about such a conversion of the Albatross. The sponsons were modified into pods for SeaDoos.
   Take a look at the lone interior shot of Jimmie Buffet's Albatross

   Google Grumman Albatross for sale to find one suitable for converting.

4. L.T.M.

   Posted December 6, 2011 at 5:22 am | Permalink

   Generally a tent camper. But sometimes a good van to sleep in is better. I don't go for the RV. I build my campsitearound the back of the van, no generator.