Starting to enjoy this. Kinda like the old days when folks had real conversations. The reason God gave us twilight, campfires and gin. (The game, the drink, your choice)
So, I must differ on the PPE contention. We share our dusty little dead end road with a family practitioner, and two RN's (married couple). Our son an administrator at one hospital, DiL a nurse practitioner at another. As a 73 year old knuckle dragging flangehead married to a babelicious young 68 year old, they keep a close eye on us. At this point -- things can always change fast -- local hospitals have an excess of beds and no lack of PPE's, etc
But that is sort of a side issue to the larger question of what to do with that high dollar yard ornament besides waxing it. Disinclined to dragging out a folding chair and watching the tires rot.
For big city folks and crowded eastern states, figuring out how to social distance and maintain a quality of life is an issue. No doubt. If you are only comfortable cheek by jowl in a FHU RV park, that, too is an issue. But for those of us living in the flyover states west of the Mississippi, we have lots of wide open spaces. The Senator from Wyoming nailed it when he said "We've been practicing social distancing for 110 years".
AZ state parks are open with common sense closures of restrooms and other public rooms. Haven't looked elsewhere. BLM lands are open in AZ, Utah, Nevada, etc., with like common sense restrictions. Is it such a hardship to use our onboard facilities?
It is a stretch to contend that social distancing at 62.5mph is somehow leaving puddles of Chinese virus in our wake. You left with full tanks and food you will still have on your return. You usually lunch at a wide spot in the road counting butterflies. If you do fuel up, have you ever seen a fuel nozzle not dripping with a layer of diesel? You are going to have to wash up anyway. And these days you do not even have to sully your credit card -- just wave your cellphone and go. And when you inch into a dump station, you already hit everything within a ten foot radius with chlorox spray. You do, don't you?
Most of the folks following this thread can attest to the sheer size of the Sonoran Desert, the North Rim, the Moab, Bryce, Zion, etc. Social distancing the high rise, six 'o clock news talking heads cannot comprehend. At least for us, the whole point of owning one of these beasts is to spend our best years enjoying each other and our great country with some modicum of privacy and more comfort than that d**ned old tent.
One of the posts somewhere was worried they might contract the Chinese virus while out. Valid point. But what will you do if you get snake bit, tumble down a trail, have a stroke, coach catches fire, your shot gun barrel bends and shoots you in the eye (sorry, got carried away).
Darn! Looks like I inadvertently doubled down.
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