Being a good neighbor

[Boat Bum]

Yeah, I got a watch dog to protect my home, he watched it get robbed twice.

 

[Domo]

Today is a typical morning it's already 10:30. I've finished my coffee and read the news and now doing "the forums."

I've got to pack up the barbie (did the chairs and folding table last night), pull in the slides and awnings, disconnect the electric and then, finally can start the motor and get on the road... and we have a looooong day ahead (for us, that is) - maybe four hours...

{still have another forum to browse through}

 

[cully]

rattle rattle rattle.... bang bang bang, trucks and boat trailers coming into camp/launch to start their day at 5:30am. I understand it, i do it but I'll take the extra effort to do it as quiet as i can. When staying at a fish camp early a.m. can be edgy.

 

[Zulu Kono]

We like to hitch up our 5th wheel and load everything up the night before we vacate our campsite or rv space.
We do that so we don't disturb others who may be sleeping when we leave usually by 6am. I'm amazed at how noisy some people are when hooking up early in the morning. Slamming tailgates, slamming storage compartments closed, throwing coolers into the truck.
Maybe it's just me?

It's not just you.
I avoid all that noise and inconsideration by camping only
in primitive sites and as far away from other people as I can.
If I want to hear other people making noise
in the morning, I could stay home and do that.

 

[CharlesinGA]

Last Christmas I was at Big Lagoon SP near Pensacola, FL. I was in site #1. A rather narrow site separated from site #2 by a board fence (its almost like they took a big site and created two from it. Anyhow I was about ten feet from the fence and there was a 5th wheel as close to the fence as the slides would allow. I am sure they had kids, there were small bikes and other kid stuff under the front of the trailer but I never saw the kids, or the man the entire time I was there. The diesel dually was gone almost the whole time and I only saw a woman walking a (3 legged) dog. But you want to talk about sound traveling, I could hear those kids running around inside that trailer when I was in mine with the door closed. It was loud. They left early on the 26th and the amount of noise they made packing and loading and stowing slides was crazy. I just rolled over and tried to ignore it. The truck was the least of the sound.

Charles

 

[8Muddypaws]

Our coach requires the engine running to retract the jacks, being in the slides, air up the suspension, and release the air brakes. It is what it is.

I'm thinking the earliest we've ever left a site was 9:00.

We're early risers, courtesy of the two canine alarm clocks in my avatar. The guys that upset me are the ones who arrive in the middle of the night. Why do they always seem to have a backup alarm?

 

[Old_Crow]

I bet all my tent campers really loved the dude with the toy hauler and Ram truck with the Cummins in it that rolled out of the campground at 4:15 this morning. At least he idled through the campground, but it seemed like it took him 10 minutes to get out of earshot.

 

[Ex-Calif]

If I am leaving early I will pack up the night before. The only connection left being power.

5am - make coffee, a quick breakfast. 6 am - Power stowed, engine start, gear up, safety/perimeter check and depart.

 

[longhaul]

Everyone camps for many different reasons.
I'm 80 + years old and usually up around 5:30am so those that are starting their day don't bother me. I'm usually in bed around 11 pm.
Door slammers...... you know the type that slams doors shut and heard 2 blocks away.
Folks miss the best part of mother natures early sun rise morning show. Instead their sound asleep.
We fish camp and nothing for us beats being out on the water at sunrise. before all the noise makers get around....calm winds......cool temps.

Everyone camps for many different reasons.

 

[Old_Crow]

Everyone camps for many different reasons.
I'm 80 + years old and usually up around 5:30am so those that are starting their day don't bother me. I'm usually in bed around 11 pm.
Door slammers...... you know the type that slams doors shut and heard 2 blocks away.
Folks miss the best part of mother natures early sun rise morning show. Instead their sound asleep.
We fish camp and nothing for us beats being out on the water at sunrise. before all the noise makers get around....calm winds......cool temps.

Everyone camps for many different reasons.

Don't get me wrong. The dude this morning did not wake me up, I was already halfway through my first cup of coffee, but a lot of tent campers like to sleep until at least there's a bit of light in the sky. It was still pitch dark at 0430. I see plenty of fishermen leave early, but this dude had his whole rig, not just the boat.
I like to travel in the early morning, but I usually reserve those "0 dark-thirty" departures for days when I've overnighted in a truck stop or rest area. Then again, I drive a gas coach, so it's not quite as noisy when I leave.

 

[Frizlefrak]

Bottom line is this.....consideration for others seems to be dying. There are hundreds of examples, but walking through other's campsites, laying the sewer hose on the picnic table, firing up the deleted diesel truck at 0500.....or of course my favorite, the dogs that get locked in the trailer and bark incessantly when the occupants are gone for the day (always the same response...."My little Precious wouldn't DO that!!!"). Lots of people have morphed into indifferent narcissists these days.

A little consideration goes a long way.

 

[Matt_C]

This is an old subject, but I personally have given up hoping that there would be some return to the basic courtesies of past times. When people talk about the lack of such in the youngers, all I can think is "Just who was supposed to teach them about this?"
Of our own, I know we failed for one and succeeded with the other. We are not sure just why.
When they were both younger, we played a lot of - What will happen if? - with both of them.
Matt

 

[Ex-Calif]

This is an old subject, but I personally have given up hoping that there would be some return to the basic courtesies of past times. When people talk about the lack of such in the youngers, all I can think is "Just who was supposed to teach them about this?"
Of our own, I know we failed for one and succeeded with the other. We are not sure just why.
When they were both younger, we played a lot of - What will happen if? - with both of them.
Matt

People are people. I have been tent camping since my teens. There are always early risers. IN fact I would say that people are waking up later and later when camping. If folks aren't out of the rack by 8:00am I don't have much noise sympathy anyone.

Sure the trash and all is generally worse but wake and sleep times have definitely shifted.

I find the late drunk partyers with kids running around and music going to be way worse than early noise.

 

[Tom]

For many years we boated on the California Delta and either swung on a hook or tied to a tree (boating equivalent of boondocking) with fellow boaters. One local well-known character who lived aboard full time would get out his bugle at dawn and play reveille. All part of the ambience of the Delta, and nobody complained.

 

[Rene T]

Bottom line is this.....consideration for others seems to be dying. There are hundreds of examples, but walking through other's campsites, laying the sewer hose on the picnic table, firing up the deleted diesel truck at 0500.....or of course my favorite, the dogs that get locked in the trailer and bark incessantly when the occupants are gone for the day

I have no issues with braking dogs for about 15 minutes. Then I head straight to the office or Ranger station.

For many years we boated on the California Delta and either swung on a hook or tied to a tree (boating equivalent of boondocking) with fellow boaters. One local well-known character who lived aboard full time would get out his bugle at dawn and play reveille. All part of the ambience of the Delta, and nobody complained.

I think I would look for his bugle when he wasn’t looking and stuff it with tissues.

 

[HappyWanderer]

Growing up camping, my mother would always make sure us 6 kids were playing loudly outside the camper of any drunks that kept her awake the night before. The earlier and louder the better.

 

[Ex-Calif]

For many years we boated on the California Delta and either swung on a hook or tied to a tree (boating equivalent of boondocking) with fellow boaters. One local well-known character who lived aboard full time would get out his bugle at dawn and play reveille. All part of the ambience of the Delta, and nobody complained.

My dad would wake us to reveille in HS. No one in our house ever rolled over for a "snooze" alarm.

It was good training. I can be in a dead sleep and on my feet adjusting sails, reacting to trouble or whatever instantly.

I am a dead sleeper but a light sleeper. It's weird too. Not everything wakes me up but bang a trash can lid, break a bottle, or when my dogs bark "aggressively" and not some squirrel or possum, boink lights on. I can open my eyes, mess around with something for 30 minutes and fall right back to sleep.

I use these LED lights on my "ranch" and if one of the lights goes on, me and S&W pop right up - LOL.

 

[Ex-Calif]

Here's another huge peeve of mine. Yesterday there were semi's in the third lane for Pete's sake. Semis 3 across with a 2mph delta among 'em.

 

[Rene T]

Most states that is against the law unless maybe there is a left exit coming up and they need to take it.

 

[Tom]

Don't know about 30-45 minutes (maybe that's an exaggeration), but our diesel motorhome needs to run long enough to bring the suspension up to ride height, and bring the air brake system up to release the parking brakes (the coach won't move until we do), and have sufficient pressure for the service brakes to work (when we step on the brake pedal).

BTW the system has a VERY LOUD alarm that won't quit until the air pressures are above a predetermined/safe number (2 air systems - brakes and suspension).