Unwritten Rules of RV Life! Campground Etiquette for Fulltime RV Living

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• Take off the shades!

• Empty yes, I was trained to not walk through a campsite with people in them. Yes. You said it. You don't walk through a yard. Unless its yours.

• Good points, thanks. (I recommend making these vids without the shades tho—we want to see you!)

• Empty is ok, occupied is a big NO

• I love your sunglasses! Where did you get them?

• As a new camper, I just want to add my THANK YOU! for the tip about cleaning the faucet prior to hooking up to city water. You may have just saved us from getting a very nasty bug on our next adventure and ruining a trip!

• If the campsite is unoccupied, I'm walking through it. Otherwise I'll just walk around it.
  As for picking up after your pet, don't forget to tie off the top of the doggie bag before throwing it away. Here's another DO….. When handling your sewer hose, use gloves. In addition, keep the sewer hose away from your face when soraying it with water when cleaning it out. One last DONT….don't dump your tanks when your neighbors are outside their RV trying to enjoy the outdoors.

• I make my group start partying early so that we are all calling it quits by 9-10. We are roudy but also own that and do our best to not be those people 😉. But if your by us 12pm – 8ish 😱 I apologize

• Just curious as to why it wouldn’t be okay to walk through an empty site? Genuinely interested is all!

• Get to the point please; over 2 minutes of small talk

• I think Karen's are the only people telling someone not to walk through an empty campsite. Jeeez

• Hey guys! I have learned so much from your videos. We just bought our first RV. It’s a gently used 2018 5th wheel, and we are headed out in 3 weeks for a 12 week long tour of ID, UT, AZ, NM, CO, WY, and MT. I do have a question that I think you can help with. What tools would you recommend bringing? Do you bring a ladder? How tall? Things like that keep me awake at night.

• Why flush your hose with the fresh water anyways? If you maintain your grey tank, flush the hose with that? We fill and flush before leaving. Once the grey runs clear we pack up.

• Your "underglow" lights are just as annoying. Especially the blue ones!

• I walk through an empty camp site…its empty

• Empty campsite ok but NEVER occupied!

• Like your video and reminders for all of us. A suggestion for your videos is let us see what probably are beautiful eyes and not sunglasses. Take care, stay safe!

• People that stay up past the quiet hours need a loud generator early in the morning to remind them they stayed up way late… Lol

• In my opinion all of these “rules” are just common sense. The funny thing about common sense… It’s not so common.

• Give your new camping friends their space. Just because you shared a campfire the night before doesn't mean your should pop in anytime without asking if it's Okay first. We never bother anyone at meal times.

• When I was growing up camping, we enjoyed pulling in the site and finding a wood pile a the site or useable coals in the fire pits, As long as it was safe.
  Walking through empty spaces. I agree with you that's different people has different feelings about it. When I was a kid, I got yelled at people only few times taking short cuts in the wood to the bath house. One person told my mom to keep me out of woods. My mom told them they were at wrong camp ground. The camp ground was in the woods.. LoL

• I'm fortunate to have a motorhome that's fairly sound proof. I can see the noise and not hear it.

• Quiet hours are almost always posted…not an unwritten rule, unless you are boondocking. If that happens you need to complain to management.

• Walking through empty campsites is fine for humans only. As a dog owner, I refrain from walking my dog through empty campsites as I do not want my dog going to pee and no. 2 (I do clean up after my dog) in an area where people will be setting up or children playing.

• Walking through empty usually ok driving through not so much

• We don't get bent out of shape if kids come through our site. They don't know any better. It's when adults do it or watch as their kids do it and don't correct them and it continues.

• wait, you’re saying there are other people in the world? Crazy — yeah I recently had the neighbor guy testing his motorcycle at midnight during the week night 🕛 dude, really?

• Yes quiet hours are important! My current RV park neighbor likes to start his loud truck at 5am and rev up his engine I'm guessing to warm it up? I can wait till he blows a head gasket revving his cold engine like that

• To me walking through an occupied campsite is like walking thru my motel room or other rented space. We have problems with that every time we camp. Also driving beside our parked vehicle with a golf cart or kids riding bikes on our space. Drives us crazy!

• "That's gonna leave a mark!" haha

• Would like to thank you for your video and posting! We are preparing to become RV Noobs; your advice…education, is greatly appreciated. Fortunately, we have my brother and sister-in-law; both long time RVers, and you, to show us "the way". Bona Fortuna!

• Great video! We are avid campers and we feel as long as the site looks deserted it's ok to walk through but if theres evidence that someone is using it we steer clear. We are starting out with a youtube channel and love how you guys do yours!!

• I don’t think I would use my water hose to rise out sewer either! If you plan it you dump black tank and with full grey tank dump after black tank, your sewer hose should be clean with all the soapy grey water!

• Empty campsite is fair game and totally useable as a quick pass through, but not for someone to expand their own campsite until someone shows up to use the site.

  Great call on sanitizing the water output, haven't seen/heard of that before but makes sense.

• Agree Empty is a free for all.. BUT….. NEVER someone else's site and be respectful and avert eyes from the adjoining people.. don't be noisy.. don't give someone the feeling you're "casing" their stuff or just nosey.

• WOW- after 50 years of camping in 10 different types of rigs this reminds us of why we ONLY camp in our favorite boondocking locations throughout western America. We go to the Utah dessert in the middle of nowhere with "all the comforts of home" to get away from all these rules.
  Sorry guys, but this makes me feel great about all my efforts to get our rigs into Gods country…. Where 'common sense' dictates the rules.

• Open, no camper on site free to walk through, secondly NO TRASH NO WHERE ,leave NO trace camping ,lights well if YA DISPLAY OUR FLAG ON IT REMAINS LITE, and been camping in a RV since 1974

• I do appreciate you little list of " unspoken rules," but frankly everyone on these youtube channels have THAT list. I am a little sick of all the pansies who are so sensitive. I don't burn trash, package my sewer hose on the picnic table, leave trash, leave doggie doodle, speed or most of these rules. BUT I also have a pet peeve and I want to make a rule. I have a large family. They all work HARD, LONG hours for weeks on end. We make arrangements one weekend every other month to all stay at an outdoorsy campground. It might make some of the sensitive babies mad, but an RV park is also NOT a church. We are going to enjoy precious time with our family who loves playing guitar, cahon, fiddle, mandolin and others. We are going to continue enjoying THAT weekend wherever we are. An RV park is not a church. But thank you for you ideas, but not everything people do to be together is a "mistake". Love you but don't really think all of you guys handing out your little rule lists should be so condescending. Maybe, just maybe other people need a little time to unwind without worrying that breaking curfew one Saturday night is violating the library rules.

• Is that a pyr? Love to see someone travel with a giant breed dog!!

• Great rules to follow, most people should already follow these, many are written rules at campgrounds.

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