When you’re out on the road in your RV, do you typically (and we mean typically) spend more time inside your RV or outside?
To clarify, here’s what we mean by each. Spending time inside your RV includes activities like reading, playing games, watching movies or TV, working, crafting, or cooking. It’s all about enjoying the comforts of your cozy home on wheels.
On the other hand, spending time outside your RV could mean gathering around the campfire, reading at the picnic table, hiking or exploring the area, going out to eat, or even cooking meals in the open air. So, which one sounds like you?
Your answer might change depending on your location or the weather, but we’d love to know where you find yourself spending most of your time on a typical trip. Do you feel more at home relaxing inside, or do you prefer taking full advantage of the great outdoors?
After you vote, feel free to leave a comment explaining your answer! Thanks for participating – we’re excited to hear from you.
If you include sleeping, it’s about even, inside & outside. Negating sleep time it’s about 90% out and 10% in.
Depends on the weather, if it is not between 75-85, I am inside. I don’t like being cold and I don’t like being hot. 70 with a quilted shirt is tolerable to go to the showers/restrooms. I have a comfortable drivers seat in my class A and a beautiful view out the front window to see the world.
I have changed my answer in the last couple of years. Used to be outside, but a new, to us, RV and a sober lifestyle has moved us inside a little more.
Your “sober lifestyle” caught my eye…I hope you have found as we have…it has changed our RVing experience in so many wonderful ways! Must say the first time we set up camp without making margaritas…made for a great laugh saying…”now what?” 😂
Happy Trails!…so many great adventures are out there! 🤗
I would say mine is 75% in and 25% out as I don’t like the cold as much. The wife would be more like 90% in and 10% out, she has too many projects going to go outside and relax.
It truly is weather dependent but mostly outside. We love nature walks and campfires.
In the past it was outside, in the future it will be inside
Did not vote because there are several factors, mostly hinging on why we are stopped. If it is an overnight rest, mostly inside. If we are at a spot where we both wake up and go to sleep, and the weather is pleasant, we are mostly outside.
Love hiking along the journey, as we travel to Arizona for the winter.. . .and exploring this beautiful country. America has so much diversity in environments & people that it would be a shame to miss any of that by staying inside the motorhome!
For us, it’s totally weather dependent.
Same here.
Us too, that & insect dependent. We don’t get a lot of mosquitos in the Montana mountains but the big black flies & other nasty flying critters drive me inside pretty quick. I do love sitting outside early in the morning with my first cup of tea tho. Something about that mountain smell just starts the day right.
Same here.
I answered “about the same”, but it really should be “it depends”. Partly, it’s where my cranky spine is most comfortable. Partly, it’s weather and temperature. I spent most of 3 days inside on one trip to North Rim/GCNP, with a storm system stuck overhead. Sitting outside in a cold rain, not my idea of the best place to be. Last month, with warmer than usual weather at both Rims, we spent lots of time outside.
We don’t really travel to “camp”, it’s more for work and to be in or near particular places where we enjoy both indoor and outdoor activities. We are full timers in a 43-foot diesel pusher, so we have plenty of space and indoor activities. Plus, the wife watches a lot of TV and we both enjoy reading.
I know perception and wishful thinking says one thing but reality as I see it tends to suggest otherwise.
If you figure in sleeping time, hygiene, too cold/too hot days, wind, precipitation, bugs, housekeeping and transit, I think most of us spend more time inside our RV.
Excluding a van dweller who has no choice or the weekend warrior seeking fresh air at any cost, I just don’t see many RV’ers abandoning their homely comforts to sweat, freeze, get soaked or ate by bugs.
Nope, we crank on the climate controls and smugly laugh at the dude whose frozen tent is blowing away….
…must say you did a grand job of describing who you are and how you see others…
Perhaps. Return the favor and tell me why you bought four walls and a roof to sleep under the stars.
If you’re referring to the “smugly laugh” comment, that’s how most tenters see us.
I’d be happy to return the favor…I live where most want to camp…I have spent nights under the stars on my deck. I bought my RV so I can travel and have the comforts I enjoy in my house on the road.
You only think tenters see us that way because of how you see them.
Hers’s my thought: if you are camping and you are sweating, freezing, getting soaked or eaten by bugs, you’re not doing it right. You have wheels, use ‘em!
Exactly! 😅
We average 7,000 miles a year so we do keep the wheels in motion but like most folks, we didn’t buy a home away from home to live outside. Did you?
Hey Vince…can you just understand each and every RVer has their own idea of why and how they use their RV…inside and outside?
Of course I can, hence the simple point I was trying to make that the percentage of time inside versus outside might not be what folks think.
Maybe your personal situation is you only use your RV as a storage shed which forces you to live outside. That’s cool, do you think that’s how the masses use theirs?
You seem to think you know what people think…and you want to know what others think…I think I’m done 😅
Funny, I was thinking the same of you but none the less, thank you for the conversation. Stay safe out there!
My pleasure! …You too Vince!
Happy trails! 😃
I live outside at home and outside when RVing, except when driving or sleeping, and then still have the windows open.
I voted “inside”, but that depends on whether we are (A) staying in 1 place, or (B) traveling on a cross country trip to many places, like we just completed. When at a destination, we are mostly outside. When traveling, we eat/rest/read inside and don’t bother to set up outside.
Same for us.
I picked about the same, I spend more time inside cooking & tidying than my husband who spends 75% of his time outside. We both spend more time inside when the bugs are bad.
I checked “About the Same” because I assume that it includes time spent at night in bed. Not counting night time, I spend more time outside my RV.
When the outdoor temperature is just perfect for us, from morning coffee till the last log on the fire pit goes out – we are outside. That is why we RV. However, rain, high winds or low cold weather we will be inside all day. Just depends.
Thank you, RV Travel! DW more outside and me more inside. Have a great weekend and safe travels!