Happy New Year’s Eve! Can you believe it’s already 2023? We sure can’t.
Will you do anything tonight to celebrate the new year? Attend or host a gathering? Stay at home with your household/RV members and celebrate? Will you stay up until midnight, or will you go to bed before then?
Whatever you’re doing, we’d love to hear about it in the comments. If you don’t feel like sharing, that’s okay, but please vote in the poll below. Thanks! Have a safe night and please don’t drink and drive.
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If you call going to bed at 10PM celebrating ok.
Same here. I can only remember a few years when I stayed up until midnight, and that was when I was younger and we would celebrate with friends. Anymore, it’s just another day. I watch reruns of the ball dropping!
This is our third year going to Hunsader Farms with our RV on New Year’s Eve. It is a relaxed way to spend New Year’s Eve.
I will be checking my Eye Lids for light leaks sometime between 21:00 and 22:00. Been my go to celebration since 01/01/1974 when I crossed the international date line headed East on the USS Hancock CVA-19. We had two New Years Eves and most of the crew were pretty wasted the first, stone sober the second. Haven’t stayed up for one since.
Ten o’clock then weather report and off to bed. Our locals show the ball dropping at ten so no need to stay up till midnight anymore.
In bed by 10, we’re leaving NE OH in the morning, heading to FL for the winter. That’s much more exciting than watching the ball drop. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy new year.
We’ll stay home. I’m in bed by 10, husband stays up until midnight. We eat at home. Reflect on the past year, look
Forward to changing what we can. We give thanks to God for another year of safe travels, health, family and friends.
My resolution for 2023, to love and forgive ,pray for my country and longer walks. God bless our nation, vets and families.
Like MANY of our “old timer” friends, we celebrate here in WA State by following the action in Times Square, welcoming the New Year at Midnight East Coast time then heading to bed!
Stouffer’s pizza, some champagne (around 5pm) and some TV. I’ll fall asleep in the chair, wake up around 8pm (TX time), and move on to bed. It’ll be a raucous evening. Wifey will be right behind me.
We will spend the evening and night trying to calm my wife’s service dog. Our neighbors start the Fireworks in the afternoon and the city goes from 8 to about 1 AM. One year we went to a “Fireworks Free” State Park. That was a bust because our Class A neighbor set off fireworks that showered another campers rig and the dry grass behind the campsites. We had thought of driving out into the country away from town, but then we would have to drive back, dodging drunken drivers, after midnight and still have town fireworks til dawn.
Celebrating with our 3 kids and 2 grandkids. Probably won’t be up at midnight but with our kids as guests, it might not be advisable to fall asleep in my recliner.
You should have had a choice, “Will you be able to stay up until midnight?” My answer for about 10 years in a row is Nope, fall asleep on the couch waiting for the ball to drop!
We will watch the ball drop in New York, share some champagne and then lights out.
We are camping with friends near Julian in So Cal. Some hiking today, college football and good eating. Won’t try to make it to midnight. Happy RVing and New Years!
By the way- what’s with just about all the bowl games being on ESPN?!?
Money talks…
That pretty much says it.
Great observation, David!!! I already emailed NCAA & ESPN concerning this. I can’t post my comments to them, here, as it would get me excommunicated! Suffice to say…they’re just giving the finger to all OTA TV folks! Sad!
Yeah, I’m a little slow sometimes. I just hadn’t realized; just this past season TRYING to get into football again, and loving college games. Shoulda known.
We are having a pot luck diner party at our RV resort in Arizona with 4 other couples (good friends) from Canada and the US. I doubt we will make it till midnight but that’s ok. It’s not how you end the year it’s more about how you start a New Year! Stay warm, stay safe, stay thankful. See you on the road!
We’ll be celebrating alright- clear up to about 9 or 10PM…
All our holidays/celebrations revolve around a special meal, with or without additional people.
Staying home to avoid the crazies, especially when returning home. Neighbors always have fireworks. And the Country Music folks are advertising a great NYE show
We’re hosting an event for a few people, it’s our wedding aniversery, but we’ll start at noon and be in bed by 8:00 (but that’s after midnight Greenwich Mean Time,)
First we move to our next reservation for a 2 month stay. Then having Asian take away with BIL and SIL at their place as our small camper is not up to entertaining. Back to the camper and in bed no later than 10pm.
my wife and I will stay up, watch the ball drop, smooch and then hit the sheets. same as we’ve done for decades (when i wasn’t working).
NOTICE: Minnesota, not to be outdone, will have a ball drop at midnite also. It is giant red and white fishing bobber! Watch for it! Ya’ suure ya betcha! We’ll watch the NY ball, have a glass of wine and toast another year. Happy New Year to everyone, Rvtravel.com staff and commenters too…..
While we are RVing on the west coast, we can pick up the east coast on our ROKU. Thus, we will watch the ball drop at 9pm California time, celebrate the New Year and be in bed asleep by 10:30pm.
We met on New Years Eve, 42 years ago, so we stay up and share a little dance and a kiss. We are 85 and 80, married for 41 1/2 years.
Happy New Year to all. Yes, still RVing
Dick and Rose
Awesome!
The only time I get to see midnight is around a campfire roasting my weiner and toasting my buns. Tonight, that is not an option as the wife has that nurse job in the morning. Happy New Year!
We will stay up to see the New York midnight countdown at 10pm, our time. Then we will kiss goodnight, cuddle up together and drift off to sleep.
YEP
Since my girlfriend is in the hospital, I’ll be alone and have a drink when the NYC ball drops.
Here on the east coast, as soon as it was dark, around 6 pm the fire works in our area started. And…We will get to hear them to somewhere between 1 and 2 am. We had light showers earlier today and were hoping for a good downpour tonight. Rain stopped – nuts.
We would like to celebrate the New Year, but it sort of turns into OH CxxP! It’s New Years again.
NY Eve includes playing various games while watching college bowl games, cooking special foods, buy a lottery ticket, watch NY ball drop, text various friends and family, eat more food, watch Central Time count down, count our blessings with family and friends, have a bubbly toast, grab some shut-eye! Happy New Year!
Nope. Sound to sleep.
I stayed up with my dog in a sound proofed guest house rather than in the RV and rang in the New Year watching movies at full volume to block the sound of fireworks from my dog. He is terrified of them and usually spends his time under high anxiety shaking throughout the evening. This alternative to the RV seemed to work very well this time and I think he only heard one distant fireworks blast.
We will not be celebrating (well sorta) because we are workampers in AZ and we will be working the NYE party at our resort. I will be working as a bartender with my better half so there will be a midnight kiss 👍