What age do you quit camping?

[theeyres]

We did sell our fiver as it was just getting too big to handle, but at 76 I'm not even close to slowing down. We're no longer full-timers but still leave for a couple months in the summer and belong to a RV club that takes trips every month through the winter. No plans to quit this life style.

[TomHaycraft]

Originally Posted by WaltBennett

I'm 71 and we're going on a 6k mile + trip in two months. LOML is 61 with an artificial hip & knee, and isn't slowing down at all. Only thing I haven't done is sign up for any 'lifetime' memberships - just stick with 5 year ones.

Just catching up on this thread, really liked your description. Took me a moment to decode LOML. I found I've got one of those too! We are "only" in our early 50s, she's putting off knee replacements as long as she can (high school and college basketball was tough on them). Many good miles and places to visit ahead of us.

Safe travels.

[glenalt]

64 and the DW is 68. We've owned a Holiday Rambler TT, 30' MH and now our 5ver. Heck, we are just getting started.

[Jim & DJ]

83 + and still loving the RV life. Take away our RV would be like taking away the gun......

PS; 5 1/2 months snowbird trip to Arizona last November and plan to do it again this year.

[lifecamper]

I have no home but my 5th wheel. My dog and I will continue to the end living the life. I go North in the summer and South in the winter. I have made a lot of friends along the way. I suppose some day I will find an RV park to just stay till the end. Probably some place close to one of my kids so I can bug the heck out of them.

[rhagfo]

Originally Posted by Jabber2Jake

I'm 63 yrs old, still enjoy taking out our fifth wheel. Will probably keep going till my health runs out. What do others think about how long they will continue? Anyone in their 70's or 80's and still pulling a fifth wheel?

Age is as much mental as physical, I am currently 64, and plan on keeping fit and if we can keep a rig camping into out 80's.

[RedRover]

We will stop when we change our status from old to elderly.
Aged 71 and 76 and making memories every trip. Nearly 10,000 miles in the past 8 months.

[1jeep]

When im wearing a diaper it might be time to sell the Rv and motorcycles....im only 47 so I hope I have a few more years left.

My parents are 68/70 and still ride/camp.

[sourdough]

Originally Posted by Jabber2Jake

I'm 63 yrs old, still enjoy taking out our fifth wheel. Will probably keep going till my health runs out. What do others think about how long they will continue? Anyone in their 70's or 80's and still pulling a fifth wheel?

You know, I think you're where I've been since I was about 45. My knee was in terrible shape and I just had to drag the leg around because I was so young they wouldn't replace it. At that time I began thinking about when I would have to quit going and doing. Fast forward to 65 with both knees replaced and feeling better than I did at 45. I still wonder when that day may come but I figure I'll just keep going and doing until one day I hit the ground.....still wondering when that day may come - could be 65; could be 95. Make plans for any contingency then go like there's no tomorrow.

[mikereidjr]

All I can say is thanks for the confidence! You guys are inspiring!

I am 28 and my wife is 36, we had a pop up and now we have a bumper pull, we don't have kids yet, but figured we should get started early.

My wife and I both grew up camping, My folks are still going strong at 60 & 61 we hope to keep this tradition going for the next generation(s)

[tgpilot]

I know this thread is a bit old, but just had to post. I will be 69 this year and my wife is 25, YES twenty-five. She is just getting into RVing as we leave this Saturday on a nine state four thousand mile vacation with our four year old daughter. I've been RVing since I was twenty-two and except for taking off for awhile after I had sold my last RV, I've bought another and still going. Over the years I have had about twenty five RV's.

I figure I have maybe five more good years due to my health. My neighbor who just lost his wife this Spring is still RVing and just bought a big boat to run the coast for salmon, and he is 83.

So, life is just a number, like my wife being 44 years younger than me, or the fact that your as young as you feel to RV as others have said, that, or health get you as it has me.

[PARAPTOR]

Congratulations in many ways . I had asked the same question to a neighbor, he being in the late seventies, His response " When I can not lift that 30 gallon propane tank I will consider quitting"

ENJOY

[byrdr1]

Reading this I feel like a spring chicken.
I am 58 and the wife is 55. So we have a few more good years in us. I am about to make a major lifestyle change to help me live a longer and healthier life. So I am looking forward to the time of my clock not my employer's clock. And a newer tow truck with maybe a newer camper too. We'll see on that one.

Randy

[Seabee]

I just hit the 40 this past Sunday and I don't plan on quitting anytime soon.

[PARAPTOR]

Interesting thought majority of us were in the 70's based on military, RV experiences, etc.

[Yosemitebob]

I figure when they take my truck away It really doesn't matter if I can't find my way back from somewhere.

[JRTJH]

Originally Posted by Yosemitebob

I figure when they take my truck away It really doesn't matter if I can't find my way back from somewhere.

Great perspective. We just bought a new truck, so with any luck we "won't find our way back" a number of times before they take ours away LOL

At 67, I'm expecting at least 8 or 10 more years of "doing our own thing" before we have to find a "travelling nurse" to accompany us.