Anybody travel with kids in their camper?

[rowilson]

Times have changed..... I believe I've heard it reffered to as the "pussification of the United States".

I don't think times have changed as much as you think. I remember camping as a kid making the trip out West. My Dad and Mom and five of us kids all crammed in Dad's 1963 Lincoln pulling a then new 25 foot Bee-Line trailer. We saw kids in trailers on our trip as we were going down the road and complained as to why we couldn't do that. Sure my Mom and Dad would have loved the solitude with us back there in the trailer but his answer was always the same. NO! He couldn't understand how any parent in their right mind would let their kids ride in a trailer while moving. He was born and raised on a farm and knew what safety was and that wasn't it. We just sat there and shut up and enjoyed the ride. To this day it that trip holds tons of my fondest memories growing up. And thanks to my Dad's intelligence I got to grow up.

 

[Woodenhead]

While we're on the subject of awww what the heck, we didn't care before so lets keep doing it.



How many people have heard the stories (or lived it) of the old days when it was no big deal to get blasted at the bar/party/dance/while driving or wherever, crack another cold one close one eye and try to head for home.



I musta heard a million times, yeah in the old days it was no big deal or there were fewer cars on the road to run into or we'd just take back roads or the cops would just lead the way if we got pulled over or we'd just let the dog drive... ...



So why not drive home hammered today? I guess because the pussification of the United States got us brain washed into thinking it's dangerous. Or wait... . maybe it really is dangerous, naaaaaaa couldn't be (it was safe back then).

 

[JL penner]

I take back everything I said about allowing kids to ride in Campers, TT's and 5th wheels!!!! I just came back from a trip to Laughlin and saw many of them going down the road. There is no comparison to the LQ horse trailers we pull!! Those trailers were all over the place (wind was blowing)! There is no way I would let my kids ride in any of those.



I appologize for not knowing what I was talking about.

 

[JeffWhite]

One time as a kid I rode in back of slide in with about 7 other kids on

the way back from father/son fishing trip. We spent better part of 100

miles with back door open watching pavement rush by (unknown to the driver) and making rude gestures at following cars ( I also seem to remember a "mooning" incident - not me!)Oh, and two brothers in a wrestling match that ended with one stabbing the other in hand with kitchen fork. We know our kids woudn't do any of this, but something to think about. No, my two don't ride in camper ever, even though I'm sure I'm gonna have a stroke someday they make me so mad fighting and fussing. Never camped at Wal-Mart either, but if you were in route somewhere and it was convenient, so what? And there were several severe "whoopings" when truth came to

light about the above mentioned incident!

 

[KBalzuweit]

I remember as a kid traveling in a van (76 ford w/ homemade conversion) and doing 2 things. One was filling up the sink and then letting it go (it drained out the bottom) and watching the cars get wet behind :-laf :-laf and taking a paper plate and string and flying them out the back window. All this at 65 down the road and no seatbelt. But then again who even used a seatbelt then. Smart no, fun yes, would I let my kids wander in a van or RV @65 mph NO.

 

[SKargo]

I remember as a kid traveling in a van (76 ford w/ homemade conversion) and doing 2 things. One was filling up the sink and then letting it go (it drained out the bottom) and watching the cars get wet behind :-laf :-laf and taking a paper plate and string and flying them out the back window. All this at 65 down the road and no seatbelt. But then again who even used a seatbelt then. Smart no, fun yes, would I let my kids wander in a van or RV @65 mph NO.

Oh man major flashback. I inherited a mid 70's dodge shaggin wagon from my uncle. I was 19-20 years old. We did some crazy stuff, like all my friends playing drinking games around the table with jack daniels, and them passing the bottle to me as I drove

Anyway, I had a small fridge, and a sink that drained outside. My girlfriend at the time was a royal PITA, always wanting to stop to pee. She finally started using the sink!!!



Anyway, lucky none of us ended up dead.

 

[desertryder]

She pee'd in the sink ???

Man you should married that one ... . Oo.

 

[SKargo]

She pee'd in the sink ???

Man you should married that one ... . Oo.

She was a wild one to say the least. She was my, how do I put it, hump buddy for a few years. She was 100#'s soaking wet and could fight like a 250# man!

She had a gap between her teeth, her own mother told her that meant she was a *****. :-laf

 

[JeffWhite]

How does in the livewell of a bass boat rate? I wouldn't stop fishing to go to

the bank . And yes I did marry her.

 

[CCutshaw]

How about in the back of a carwash? We were married for 6 mo's, that was 25 years ago. Don't think she would do it today.

Calvin



I always road in the back of our pickup with a shell on it. I was the youngest not enough room up front. Hated it!

 

[Po' Riggity]

I'll throw my first hand into this... When I was about 12, and my little brother was 10, we were coming home from missouri, back to CA, and we were in about needles, Ca, when we lost a wheel on the truck- sheared off all the lugs on the truck axle. My brother and I were riding in the cabover camper. Apparently, the truck did a 180, and when it stopped, the momentum of the camper movement caused ALL the mounts to snap off, and the camper went flying off the truck, landing in the MIDDLE of the I40. Luckily, after my parents unburied my brother and I ( we were bothcovered in ALL the stuff that was riding in the cabinets, and the dining room tale had broken at the post and landed on us both) we survived with only a few bumps and bruises. I will be getting a slide in camper, but my kids will NEVER ride in it. I am living proof that miracles can happen. . There is no way I should have lived through what I did.

Scott

 

[SKargo]

Wow Scott, I bet that was a scary ride.

 

[Larv]

Pee'd in the sink? ROTFLMAO!! Lots of good memories, I bet! :-laf



BTW, if there are kids in my TT I've got someone else's TT!



Headin' to AK on May 4th. C'mon May 4th!



Larv

 

[TAllen]

Ya gotta hear this one. About a month ago my wife and I took a trip from Fl. out to AZ, up to the Canyon and back to FL. . I think it was in texas somewhere, we got up in the morning, I took a shower, my wife took a shower, and I was going to go around the corner and fuel up. My wife said wait a minute I gotta go ( number 2). I said you go and I'll go slow around the corner and fuel up. I hit the first speed bump at about 10mph, but saw the next one and hit it at 5mph. When I got to the fuel pump and got out, I heard it. Crying, swearing, and saying this is the last trip I'm ever takeing with you're dumb ***. She fell off the pot into the shower, banging her elbow and bruseing her leg, to say nothing about the bruise she had on her butt. All this with all the stuff in the holders on the wall falling on her head. Needless to say it was a long day. Moral to the story, don't hit speed bumps with you're ol lady on the pot. :-{}



Tim

 

[SKargo]

:-laf Oh man, I bet it wasn't funny at the time.

 

[Loren]

I used to fly airplanes off of aircraft carriers. Now that was dangerous. Should I have stopped doing it?



I ride a motorcycle. Should I give that up?



I’ve ridden the subway in New York - AT NIGHT! Was that stupid?



I’ve investigated aircraft accidents where we couldn’t even find the dead crewmembers. Should people stop flying in airplanes?



Who gets to decide?



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Face it, people. We all make our choices regarding what risks we are willing to live with. The reason for seatbelt laws, helmet laws, etc. , is because busybodies can’t live with the idea of someone else making a decision that they disagree with.



I guarantee you that no one on this forum loves JJ Jackson’s kids more than he does. Why don’t we just assume that he would like to do what’s best for them and quit criticizing.



Loren

 

[R. Weber]

We have allowed ours (4) to ride back there as long as they are seated or laying down. We do this so they can stretch out, play, or read, and do home work. It makes for a easier trip. We don't allow this in heavy traffic or severe operating conditions such as snow or ice. It is legal in our state and most others. The law says if restraints are available they must use them.

 

[GEM]

We all miss Mayberry and John Boy Walton's wise rugged dad, JJ. But get with it. Someone's going to cell phone a trooper on you and you may learn that how Andy, Barney and Flloyd traveled with Opey and his friends then... is known as child endangerment today, and rightly so. . because we know better now and we have a billion more vehicles on the roads going much faster these days. I can hear old Barn get you now... . "citizens arrest! citizens arrest" Pull over JJ! Citizens Arrest!!!!!!!! Why don't ya think we just otta move on up to Mt. Pilot's modern waya think'n, Barn?

 

[GEM]

WoodenHead, Pussification? Do you wear camo much

 

[Tractorat]

kids in the camper

Flying air planes off an aircraft carrier ? etc ? Well, the operative word there is that "YOU" were in danger. When you ride your kids in a trailer, you are putting THEM in danger. ( I guess it takes a real man to put his own kids in danger)



Ive done (and sometimes still do) put myself in jepardy. But I dont put someone else in jepardy just because it is convenient for me. Or because they want to do it.



This is a touchy subject, isnt it ?