Do you have a hobby? If you do, which category in the below poll does it fall under? (We listed as many as we could, but please select “other” if it doesn’t fit into any of the optional categories. If you select “other”, please leave a comment and tell us about your hobby.
According to statista.com, the number one most popular hobby in the U.S. is music, followed by food, reading/writing, traveling, video games, health and fitness, sports, arts and crafts, electronics, and gardening (and the list goes on). Do your hobbies align with these, the most popular?
Do you play an instrument? Do you write in a daily journal? Do you consider completing your travel bucket list as a hobby? Do you play video games or games on your phone competitively? Do you go for a jog every morning or ride your bike every afternoon? Do you play tennis or pickleball? Do you knit? Sew? Do you enjoy photography? Fly a drone? Do you have a garden?
Please vote below. Oh, and in this poll, you can vote up to three times if you have more than one hobby. Thanks!
Remember, leave a comment, too, and tell us about your hobby or hobbies. Thanks!
Chasing hurricanes.
Riding my Harleys
Beekeeper.
Gardening. It’s fun to figure out how to do it in an RV. Many times it is volunteering to do someone else’s garden work.
I enjoy fiber arts. We full-time so supplies travel with us, including a spinning wheel. Once upon a time the loom also traveled, but went into storage to make room for a kayak. We also do a lot of hiking and kayaking.
I’ve had a 40 year career in Technology Management in a large wholesale distribution business. Although I’m retired now, my hobby, which comes as a result of my career knowledge, has always been everything technology for our homes, including Home Automation, all kinds of sensors and detection, Networking, Security & Video, Notification and Alert systems etc.
I’ve also used these kinds of technology in our Class A
Both reading AND writing, camping, and gardening I did manage to raise a fair amount of our vegetables (South Florida) in winter, which corresponds to a Northern fall or spring. My stamina is poor & I think I shall have to hang up my trowel
Collect and restore hit and miss engines. Oldest was built in 1917.
I worked around those in the old school oilfield years ago…one could hear them a long ways off on a dark night in the sticks.
That is so cool. I subscribe to “Old Iron” and other such magazines. My years as a kid on the farms has left me with a yearn for such times. The closest I got to as a kid was an old washing machine Maytag motor. I now collect John Deeres – the small ones that sit on a shelf. Learned to drive on a B and A. One uncle JD, another Oliver and another IH.
Riding on two wheels, some day it may be 3 but in the fresh air! 🏍🛵
I’ve held a Technician ham license for 30 years. Did very little with that. At the beginning of last year I finally upgraded to a General license, opening up massive amounts of HF (high frequency) band privileges. Now I’m hooked and have spent bunches of money buying radios and assorted goodies. I LOVE IT! My “hobby” goes everywhere with us. Wifey tolerates me and my new hobby quite well. 😀
Photography and communicating with other people. My big passion is scuba diving, but as I approach 70 I’m finding fewer and fewer opportunities due to a lack of dive buddies. Time to find another passion.
I am 68 years young. I still downhill ski, x-c ski, hike, hunt, fish, RV travel, classic car tinkering and ice fish. I guess I have a few hobbies!!
Sure would be nice if I could have a hobby that was small and manageable, but no, I have to be a gear head and in the process of building a 30×50 shop to house and build and restore all the motorcycles, autos, RVs…
Photography is my addiction. Both of us train & compete with our dogs in both Rally & Agility.
I enjoy performing music for all occasions. I’ve been playing guitar and bass plus singing since 1965.
Amateur (HAM) radio both at home and on the road, and Home theater when not camping.
My ‘other’ is riding my mountain bike. Currently I’ve been exploring the trails at Casa Grande Mtn Park. I belong to a couple of FB groups for those of us over 60 and 70 that do this very thing.
Square Dancing
My other is “Sport Rocketry”. My wife and I have a large collection of small Estes rockets up to large high-power rockets (4-5 lbs weight) that we launch at rocket club events. Many events allow camping at the launch site, so we go with our trailer the night before.
Thank you, RV Travel! I collected baseball and football cards in the late-60s and early-70s. I still sometimes find the motivation to check eBay for the cards I am missing from different years. Generally, I find them excessively priced (>$25/each) and fail to buy any. So, I really have no hobbies. It is just as well, I suppose, given the work the farm (estate?) requires coupled with regular (~monthly) absences during RV trips. Have a great day and safe travels. 🙂
Bicycling. I have 4 bikes although I gave up cyclocross a few years ago. Road cycling is what I do most of now…Oh, and fishing.
Golf. Can I say Golf enough?
Fishing….but leave the cell phone in the trailer.
Amateur Radio
I love music; I play keyboards and Native American style flutes. I have arranged many songs for playing on the flutes. Photography is my second love, especially nature photography. That’s why, when I was getting ready to retire, I downsized from my 36-foot HitchHiker to a 26-foot Lazy Daze motorhome because I could go to more places in the smaller RV. (The Lazy Daze actually has more storage space than the HitchHiker!)
Model Railroading (HO-S gauges); flying, Rving, yard work, Flowers and general home repairs as able. (At 88, just trying to keep the old man out of sight!). I tell everyone considering retirement – “you better have a hobby – retire to a rocker and Tv and life will end sooner than you think”.
I’m an old model railroader.I still read the magazines and daydream, but have no room for a layout. I help my son with his, so that suffices.
Hi Tommy: Yes I also read Trains and MRR magazines. I had a single garage built about 20 yrs ago now and had planned to extend it for a MRR layout room of 14×24′. The final price was way too high so I settled on the garage only! I am trying to build a S gauge now for my 2 great grandsons… but only a 4×8; not sure if they are interested in trains however. I think one is, so maybe he’ll go on to modeling. It is a great hobby and I miss it a lot – the creativity and just watching a train go around a circle is relaxing.
Well not necessarily. But ok!
I am into photography also…
Live on a golf course, hunting and fishing abound, nature trails, tools galore, but in my senior years it seems my main hobby is seeing doctors.
I checked other. We have 3 motorhomes of different lengths. They are my hobby. I enjoy doing things to them, whether it is repair, maintenance, improving things that the manufacturer didn’t do, or adding new gadgets.
Drag racing
Mountain biking, hiking, genealogy
Where is travel on your list??? As RVers our hobby is traveling!!
Reading – I’m a voracious reader
I got married. moving stuff and cleaning is my hobby
Fishing, hiking, amateur radio, guitar, reading, photography. I’m never bored.
My wife would say I have an obsession more than a hobby. I love restoring cars. I have also been called a “hobby farmer” with my few chickens, goats, and vegetable garden. My wife’s hobby is her flower beds and crafts. We both read as well.
never really had time for a hobby
I maintain house and property, and RV. I tinker in the barn I built. Recently, my mechanic buddy “lost” all his tools and tall mechanics toolboxes in the Helena and Milton hurricanes, along with his house. They sat in 4′ of salt water for days. I still continue to de-rust and clean up each cabinet and each tool. I tinker and tinker. If I can’t fix it, I tear it apart to find out why.
I’m a quilter–lots of us that quilt in (or outside of) our RV’s. I love to sit outside at a campground sewing on my handcrank sewing machine (c 1900)
English Paper Piecing has been the best fabric-related work I’ve found in 35 years of camping. I do have three hand crank machines. I can take one “ladies’ trips”; my good friend and sewing partner also has hand cranks (& treadles). My 1902 needs a new home. My 1960 Singer 99 is wonderful, but now too much for my creaky back. We both installed the Featherweight Shop’s hand crank assembly on our 221s. We’ve taken them to a sewing day, and my friend took hers to a workshop, much to the shock of the instructor.
We trial our Jack Russell Terriers. Everything is outdoors.