What is the best bit about motorhoming for you?

[Grianan]

.... that a weekend away feels like a week

 

[Nikki]

Having somewhere to live that is mine

 

[The Dobbsters]

Think you may have just found the answer to time travelling !@Grinian

 

[shawn&emma]

Being able to disappear with no one knowing where we are. As long as we remember to turn the bloody find friends app of.

 

[Spriddler]

Spontaneous flights on a magic carpet (with my slippers).

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[Rob and Val]

What is motorhoming for us? It’s about freedom, real freedom, going where we want when we want, being surrounded by our own things, not continually filling suitcases, emptying suitcases, sleeping in beds that are too soft or too hard.

No hanging around at airports for hours on end, then crammed into a plane with hundreds of others. Waiting for what seems like ages to collect our luggage when it finally arrives on the carousel and then having to stand in a queue to hire a car to get us to a hotel.

Motorhoming is about the pace we do things at i.e. not dependent on someone else's timetable.

It’s about seeing places we would not normally see. So many beautiful places that are off the beaten track and would never be part of a coach tour itinerary.

It’s about escaping. If we arrive at a place and decide it’s not what we expected, then we can move on to somewhere better. Or if there is a change in the weather then we can drive to somewhere where there is sunshine. We are not committed to spending a week or a fortnight in a place that we've decided that we don’t want to be.

We have our personal items in our own private lounge, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and toilet/shower room that we can transport to wherever we want to go.

Our 'van is our cottage in the country and our beach hut when on the coast. It's a seat by the window in a restaurant with the best view possible. It’s a comfortable home from home.

What’s not to like?

 

[simsy56]

Freedom, various vistas, and knowing what the bed and loo is going to be like when you arrive. AND no airports.

Craig

 

[KiwiKampers]

It is most definitely “a home away from home” and, as we all know, “home is where the heart is”, but with a motorhome it has the added benefit of “wherever I lay my hat is my home”.
I also find it very reassuring to know that if my house falls down in an earthquake, I have, hopefully, got a second home ready to occupy. It is my emergency kit on wheels.

 

[bladerunner]

It’s not what it is, it’s what it allows you to do.

We’ll go to Brecon Beacons for one night, or St Davids/Brugges/York etc for a weekend, Norway/Portugal/Austria for a few weeks. My mate says “ yes. But I can drive and stay in a hotel there”.
Yes he can, but he never will.

Full water, full diesel, full fridge, empty diary = freedom.

 

[The Dobbsters]

Yes , you have all hit the nail on the head too, no airports/ baggage, being able to stop when nature calls ( big thing for me!) just going someplace for an hr or two and a spare bed if i need one, a beach hut or country cottage sums it up well too. I love that it means so much to so many people in such similar and different ways ?

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[The Dobbsters]

Something else- which i find very humbling is that you have found time to respond and share so i am all warm and fuzzy again now ❤

 

[Johnen]

The lack of planning needed, we are on our fourth night in Spain, after crossing the border just for a few hours shopping.

 

[Podney]

What is motorhoming for us? It’s about freedom, real freedom, going where we want when we want, being surrounded by our own things, not continually filling suitcases, emptying suitcases, sleeping in beds that are too soft or too hard.

No hanging around at airports for hours on end, then crammed into a plane with hundreds of others. Waiting for what seems like ages to collect our luggage when it finally arrives on the carousel and then having to stand in a queue to hire a car to get us to a hotel.

Motorhoming is about the pace we do things at i.e. not dependent on someone else's timetable.

It’s about seeing places we would not normally see. So many beautiful places that are off the beaten track and would never be part of a coach tour itinerary.

It’s about escaping. If we arrive at a place and decide it’s not what we expected, then we can move on to somewhere better. Or if there is a change in the weather then we can drive to somewhere where there is sunshine. We are not committed to spending a week or a fortnight in a place that we've decided that we don’t want to be.

We have our personal items in our own private lounge, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and toilet/shower room that we can transport to wherever we want to go.

Our 'van is our cottage in the country and our beach hut when on the coast. It's a seat by the window in a restaurant with the best view possible. It’s a comfortable home from home.

What’s not to like?

Well said!
You should be in marketing or writing sales brochures for manufacturers/dealers.
Maybe you already are!

 

[WESTY66]

.... that a weekend away feels like a week

Or if you’re still working for a living, a week feels like a weekend.

I can tell you the worst thing......

Having a motorhome and not being able to go away for weeks on end, or Beni in the winter???

 

[Smudger55]

Meeting people, the fresh air, the routines of pitching up, peace and quiet, waving to fellow motorhomers as we pass each other on the road, seeing places, living the dream. Enjoy. Smudger55

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[The Dobbsters]

WESTY66 very frustrating on both counts for you ? having withdrawal after not being in ours for a few days so can understand!

 

[The Dobbsters]

Oh yes and the waving too, i do a lot of that even in the car .....?!

 

[Rob and Val]

Well said!
You should be in marketing or writing sales brochures for manufacturers/dealers.
Maybe you already are!

Thanks, Podney. I actually was in marketing! Ran my own small advertising business for a few years and then actually sold businesses for a living, working as a sales negotiator for a nationwide company.

 

[Nikki]

What a lovely thread, refreshing, thank you!

 

[Carolyn and Kev]

Its amazing how we all feel the same or similar about being able to go off in our Motorhomes and being really lucky to be the owners of one.
Its so easy to lose real contact with your partner when at home going through all the mundane stuff we all have to do. The routine gets to us all that i am sure. However when we are away and free to explore as best as we can, We hold hands like we used to do when we were courting as kids . We laugh and joke with each other as if it were all new to us again. The problems we have to cope with at home and everyday with some of the issues that i have ...they can all be put in a "box " and locked up just for a while , just to give us a chance to let each of us both know that we really love each other still.
My motorhome does for me just that.... I honestly cannot ask any more of it.

Kev

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[The Dobbsters]

Thankyou Nikki!
Kev and Carolyn That's lovely ❤ Its a good way to put the everyday things that wear you down and bother you away for a while and focus on each other. ?

 

[seakay22]

For me, one of the biggest appeals is simplicity. Too often at home I find my life is cluttered - literally and metaphorically. Heading off in the van clears my mind, I have only what I need and life feels a whole lot more simple.

 

[138go]

For me it’s being on holiday, where ever I choose, and then having my own bed and all my own stuff with me!

 

[PJGWiltshire]

All has been said above re why we all have a MH. Around the initial outlay of the MH. We take the view that yes you pay whatever you decide to pay for you chosen 'Lovebus'. When you sell it you get an amount back. The deprecation is then divided by all the trips and memories you have had, you then have the cost of the years of use. It is only then you can decide was it good value. In our experience we say exceedingly good value

 

[thebriars]

Not having to worry whether your tour company will still be in business when you want to return home.

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[keithchesterfield2]

Not having to worry whether your tour company will still be in business when you want to return home.

Unless it's Eurotunnel - for this holiday.

Keep those Trains running please ......

 

[HandyAndy]

Having a less miserable Mother

 

[Loveshack]

The lack of planning needed, we are on our fourth night in Spain, after crossing the border just for a few hours shopping.

Well we plan quite meticulously; but react to places we’ve not been to before.
Once underway we seem to manage to clear out some brain cells, which is good.
And we sleep well too

 

[Wildbill]

Just going away in the van when wee can when i am well enough
BILL

 

[The Dobbsters]

Unless it's Eurotunnel - for this holiday.

Keep those Trains running please ......Fingers ? for you! Not been abroad yet so not had a panic over travelling!

Having a less miserable Mother

That sounds a bit difficult for you so hope you get awsy often!

Well we plan quite meticulously; but react to places we’ve not been to before.
Once underway we seem to manage to clear out some brain cells, which is good.
And we sleep well too

Its great for sleeping better we find but planning is is more difficult! ?????

Just going away in the van when wee can when i am well enough
BILL

Aww, wishing you well much more often then Wildbill ?
Love hearing all these experiences, thankyou ?

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