Foto-n-T
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So I've been at this Snowbird thing now for 17 years and all in all it's been a pretty good ride. I've stayed in RV parks where I could score crack across the street if I wanted and I've stayed in luxury RV resorts with more amenities than I would ever need or use. Generally I would prefer the latter to the former if given the choice although sometimes especially if working whilst on the road that just ain't possible. If anything I have learned that if you are going to choose to live in an RV park for at least part of the year you had better learn to be tolerant of your neighbors... at least to a point.
For the last 5 years I've been squatting in Arizona where my wife's daughter lives, we're in a nice park with mostly new or newer rigs, extremely well maintained and one of the better parks in the area. Upon our arrival this year my wife who is relatively new to this lifestyle (old wife passed away in 2016, new wife is only three years into tolerating me) asked me if "she could hang up a wind chime?" My response was... NO. I explained to her that it was inconsiderate to hang a noise maker outside of our rig to annoy our neighbors to which she nodded her head in agreement. Easy right? Nope, two days later the neighbor across the street hung this monstrosity that looked and sounded like it had once been on the set of the "Gong Show" from the pin box of his 5th wheel. Now keep in mind two things, first off we are on the west coast of Arizona where the wind will commonly scream down the Colorado River at 30-40 mph like it has for the last two days. Secondly where he hung it was basically an echo chamber reverberating off the front and bottom of his rig projecting the sound outward for all across the street for all to endure.
Remember what I said about being tolerant? My first inclination was to go over there at about 2 am and and duct tape the offending noise maker into wad of metal tubes and eliminate the problem but I didn't. I didn't even go over and politely request that he hang the thing indoors. I simply accepted the fact that my afternoon naps would be relegated to calm days and left it at that. Interestingly enough, yesterday my lovely wife pointed out that even though the wind was blowing hard enough to extend a log chain horizontally from a flag pole it was pleasantly quiet. Apparently my neighbor either got tired of listening to his bells or somebody else politely suggested he take it down before somebody else made it go away permanently.
Ah the joys of RV park life, no wonder most of us drink to excess. Y'all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy.
For the last 5 years I've been squatting in Arizona where my wife's daughter lives, we're in a nice park with mostly new or newer rigs, extremely well maintained and one of the better parks in the area. Upon our arrival this year my wife who is relatively new to this lifestyle (old wife passed away in 2016, new wife is only three years into tolerating me) asked me if "she could hang up a wind chime?" My response was... NO. I explained to her that it was inconsiderate to hang a noise maker outside of our rig to annoy our neighbors to which she nodded her head in agreement. Easy right? Nope, two days later the neighbor across the street hung this monstrosity that looked and sounded like it had once been on the set of the "Gong Show" from the pin box of his 5th wheel. Now keep in mind two things, first off we are on the west coast of Arizona where the wind will commonly scream down the Colorado River at 30-40 mph like it has for the last two days. Secondly where he hung it was basically an echo chamber reverberating off the front and bottom of his rig projecting the sound outward for all across the street for all to endure.
Remember what I said about being tolerant? My first inclination was to go over there at about 2 am and and duct tape the offending noise maker into wad of metal tubes and eliminate the problem but I didn't. I didn't even go over and politely request that he hang the thing indoors. I simply accepted the fact that my afternoon naps would be relegated to calm days and left it at that. Interestingly enough, yesterday my lovely wife pointed out that even though the wind was blowing hard enough to extend a log chain horizontally from a flag pole it was pleasantly quiet. Apparently my neighbor either got tired of listening to his bells or somebody else politely suggested he take it down before somebody else made it go away permanently.
Ah the joys of RV park life, no wonder most of us drink to excess. Y'all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy.
Thus the need for tolerance. Maybe a lot of it when in a crowded campground.
