Are you reading this now in the comfort of your RV? If so, that likely means you’ll be answering “yes” below — that you are spending this weekend in your RV. Lucky you!
It’s going to be busy out there this weekend. More on that here.
So what about you? Are you in your RV this weekend? Or just staying somewhere else, like a regular home that doesn’t even have wheels (what fun is that?). As always, your comments are welcome.
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Enough is enough! On top of needing to make advance reservations, now the fuel costs have become unreasonable. We decided to just let the masses have Memorial Day to themselves. Now maybe someone will write telling us all about how they scored a great campsite at the last minute because of cancelations.
YUP!!!
That would be me!!!
We may not be alive next year…we are blessed that we have the opportunity to be able to enjoy this RV lifestyle. We took the off chance…found a space…proudly hung our American flag 20 feet high…and here we are…enjoying the time with our son, relaxing on the central California coast, enjoying this precious life while we can. Life is just TOO short.
Unfortunately, our MH was damaged in April by a hailstorm, and mid- July is the earliest repair shop opening, so we are likely out of camping for 2022. 🙁
I live outside of Washington DC, and Memorial Day Sunday is devoted to the Ride to Remember (formally Rolling Thunder) A demonstration protest ride to bring attention to the plight of POW/MIA and veterans issues, including the 22 suicides PER DAY. Hundreds of thousands of bikers from all over the U S A ride here to Remember our fallen brothers and sisters. Many of you are already aware of this ride, but many are not. Please think of the fallen this weekend, and live a life worthy of someone dying for you.
Be safe on your ride. I think about our veterans as I’m placing a flag on their grave and decorate the veterans section where they have a memorial service and mass at St Mary’s Mt Carmel cemetery on Memorial Day.
Thank you sir!
Never camp on holiday weekends, prefer less quiet and smaller campgrounds, don’t feel like dealing with the crowds, especially this weekend.
.We live full time in our RV so yes we will be in our RV in a very full campground this weekend.
We full time and yes, will be staying in our RV at a camp ground in TN. Never forget the men and women who gave of their lives to keep us free. God Bless them and those who are serving now. God Bless our law enforcement, fire fighters and everyone else who gives so others may live. Remember this day and never forget! USAF ’62-’66
Being a retired couple, we now try to avoid holiday & weekend camping, except when on long trips. But still try to avoid big holidays. These are times for the people still working, & campers with school age children to get out there & enjoy camping. It’s not that we don’t like these campers, we have met wonderful people all the time, it’s just easier to find campground reservations. Big trips we do make reservations months in advance, but rather make reservations a month or less.
Amen
RV? No. Holidays usually find me boondocking far from the crowds. This weekend I am car / tent camping and it’s a nice change of pace.
We leave right after Memorial Day and return just before the 4th of July., then we leave again after the 4th and return just before Labor Day, then leave for a month and return before cold weather sets in. Don’t like crowds.
What fun is being camping on Memorial weekend?
It’s being away from the relatives who always want the center stage, cause trouble between others, and demands you do whatever it is that they tell you to do.
This year, 2022, there’s no family get together for this reason and that person is home alone.
Hopefully, this will teach them a lesson. We’ll see by July 4th.
We NEVER go rving over Memorial Day, too many people going and the weather is always questionable here in the Northwest.
Yes. As we will every day until I get our house finished.
We’re in our RV at the beach for the entire month of May for our first camp host gig. Having a blast! The campground started filling in on Thursday evening.
We avoid holiday travel and crowded campgrounds by choice. Retired folks have the luxury of doing that.
My vote, yes. But we ate full-timers so we skew the poll. Sorry.
Yep. We spend every weekend in the RV.
That’s an unusual bbq for a holiday weekend.
😆 I got such a chuckle out of Tom’s typo and your response, I think I’ll leave the typo there (rather than going in to correct it). Have a great day, Bob. 😀 –Diane
We call holiday weekends “amateur nights”. We don’t go out on those nights. Now that we are retired, we stick to weeknights. Much smaller crowds, and much easier to get a good spot.
Nope it’s a mad house. I’ll wait til Wednesday. To have quiet and peace of mind and think back on 20 great years I had in the service.
No we will not venture out into the madness. As a Vietnam Veteran it is a day of remembrance of those who didn’t return to their families. It is my duty as a survivor to honor the fallen.
Welcome home. I too am a Vietnam Veteran and will be in thought for those who did not return. Sometimes it is not easy. We are full-time in our motorhome and have been for 9 years. We are in a park.
AS a fulltimer for the last 5 years i guess I bend the curve of this poll just a bit . I work at RV parks in the summer and look forward to the big hollidays. all the little kids all excited to be “going camping ” , the bustle and energy in the CG. Of course there are the prima donnas who complain about the heated pool being 2 degrees too hot or cold but you run into those kinda folks everywhere. I’m 64 and don’t mind the crowds
Yes, you probably have your own nice site next to the gatehouse away from the barking dogs and screaming children. It’s a little easier to take from a distance.
Nor camping in a crowded noisy campground ever on a holiday weekend. We were reserved to camp next Tuesday through Friday but camper is in the shop awaiting a new antenna. If it takes much longer we’ll get it and camp later in June in the beautiful UP of Michigan on the St Mary’s River. Don’t really need the antenna but it’s nice to listen to the Tigers games.
16 years full time, so……
We are Workampers so YES! We have Workamping jobs from early May through mid to late October. Then it’s off to Florida to spend the winter in our S&B house near the ocean.
Our nephew is getting married, hence the reason for camping this weekend! We were fortunate to find a CG just minutes from their wedding venue!!
We are going camping at an Oregon State campground on June 6th -June 15th. Oregon has iffy weather even in June. Booked our reservation in January and could only book 6 months out.
We always camp the week before or the week after major holidays in summer. Much more peaceful.
We do the same. Avoiding the crowd and the traffic.
Yes! Attending the Strawberry Music Festival in Grass Valley, CA is one of the joys of life. Years ago, we secured an RV site with full hook-ups every year.
We are ‘most timers’ (9 months RV 3 months home in Florida). Over holidays on the road we book 2 weeks with the holiday in the middle. Keeps it interesting and us sane.
Sadly, no. We should be in Indianapolis for the INDY500 camped across the street from the entrance. However, husband has a medical issue we just wanted to deal with & not take any chances. Secondly, son, wife and 3 granddaughters, 14, 11, 7 move to Texas from Calif (30 minutes from us…see the girls every week, when not traveling) next week. So glad we were here to spend more time with them and make some more memories. They kept picking things to do we did when they were all younger. So sweet.
Been traveling since Feb and just starting the trip home. Realized Memorial Day Weekend was approaching and found a wonderful boondocking spot to stay put while the roads are busy. Do not want to engage with the road warrior’s… will relax, think of those who are gone and be grateful.
Unfortunately no. I just haven’t had the time (or help) to get it ready to go anywhere yet this year.
Yes, camping at a local State Park. Well, sort of – wife works the weekend and I work on the holiday, so we get to spend Sunday evening together.
We are in Elon NC and parking our class A at a friends place that have 13 acres and a log home. We are leaving on Memorial Day to head home to Texas.
Hopefully the traffic won’t be to crazy in Monday
Yes we are because we’re living in it until our new house is built. We’ve been living in it since the end of February. So far so good!
Visiting family graves.
My trip had to be canceled, the brand new trailer we bought last October has slide that was installed incorrectly by Winnebago, who knows there is a major problem, however they keep spitting out non quality trailers, instead of using those parts to repair the thousands of trailers filling up dealers lots! If they let you bring it in!
We are spending the weekend in our RV as we are full time RV’RS in Southern AZ for now.
We are spending the week near Yellowstone. It’s supposed to rain and snow the next three days 😁
Last year, trying to be late enough for things to open, but early enough to miss the worst heat (ha!) we would end up landing at the Grand Canyon Friday of Memorial Day weekend. This year our traveling companion needed to avoid traveling then, so we leave next Friday.
Will be enjoying “the fruits of my labor” (roof cleaning, Eternabond application, Dicor sealant, etc) staying on my residential property camping out with my fur-baby, Bebe, complete with propane fire pit, pop-up screen room, zero-gravity chair and wading pool. Life is good….and not spending a ton of $$ for gasoline.
Still In Fla as Snow Birds!!! Flying to NJ tomorrow 🥃. Will take our 36 foot tr,,, to otter lake campground for the summer July 2,,, ! Seeing great friends over the next few months is rewarding!!!