Sounds of a new-to-pop-ups...

[AustinBoston]

...camping alone for the first time.

Note: This is FICTION.

It starts with the backing... vroommmmm... thud........ ...thud... vroommmmmm... thud... thud... until he has it parked where he wants it.

Ztz as he sets the parking brake.

Clop...whap!  Clop...whap!
Clop...whap!  Clop...whap!  as he places his wheel chocks and sets them with a deadblow hammer.

clip-ip...
...thuwmp as the hitch comes off the ball.

thump CLUNK! vmmmmm...vmmmup.  as he moves his small truck and shuts it off.

clunk....clunkunk...clunk.....clunk as he unlatches the roof.

click click clik click click clik....click click clik click click clik ...click click clik click click clik....click click clik click click clik ...click click clik click click clik....click click clik click click clik ...click click clik click click clik....click click clik click click clik ... (you get the point) as he cranks up the roof.

SShhhwwoothud clip clang as he slides out the front bunk and puts the supports in place.  Muffled fabric sounds follow as he places and attaches the tenting.  The process repeats with the rear bunk.

cawwwwwwWWWWwwwwwWwwWWWWwwwWwww... as he pulls out the electrical cable and connects it.

It's a bit hard to describe the sounds of the water hose, but it's not much noise.

He is exceedingly quiet as he hooks up his grey water system.

Nothing but a few footsteps while he puts the inside poles in place.  BANG! He winces as he accidentally slams the screen door.

creak... as he opens a web-type lawn chair, in very good condition for it's age.

FssOP fissss as he cracks open a beer.

He sits quietly watching, sipping his beer, as other campers arrive and set up, with their beeps and yells and bangs and arguments and screaming children.

When finally, after the last light of a long June day fades from the sky, he is one of the last to retire for the night.

Then, louder than anything else that anyone else said, comes a panic sounding...

OH, NO!
AARRRRGHHHH!
CLANG! BANG! SMASH!

...as he discovers what happens when you slip into the back bunk without putting the stabilizers down!

Austin

[Hargus]

I recognize those sounds. My wife and I have a routine that works for us. We go to the site, we agree on the location of the PU in the site. I take the PU off the hitch and she and my 5 year old go to the supermarket and I set up the camper. When I'm by myself I know those sounds. Although I do have to say my attention is usually on the sounds of the campground and what others are doing while I'm setting up.
 One of the sounds I like to listen to in the campground is children playing and having a good time, whether it be a game, flashlight tag or other. I consider it the sounds of summer.

[AustinBoston]

I recognize those sounds.

Does that include the:

OH, NO!
AARRRRGHHHH!
CLANG! BANG! SMASH!

at the end?  :yikes:

Austin

[dthurk]

Does that include the:
 
 OH, NO!
 AARRRRGHHHH!
 CLANG! BANG! SMASH!
 
 at the end?  :yikes:
 
 Austin

I've done that in our driveway, never in a campground.  I was working on the camper and bunkend slowly drifted down to the ground as I got on it.  Went only as far as the bumper on the ground.  Slowly righted itself as I moved back into the camper body from the bunk.  No damage, no sound.  I wish I could have been outside looking at it , though.   Would have been fun.  Nobody else saw it, that I know of at least.

[CampDirt]

Our first night in the camper was in a nat'l forest with no hookups.  We were really new to this stuff and no one around to help (everyone else was in tents or in the two motorhomes).  We thought everything was great until about 1:00AM (morning, folks).  That's when the high-pitched sound...

WeeWeeWeeWeeWeeWeeWee
 
of the low battery alarm went off, for about 45 minutes.  My roomie and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, so he just put his hand over it until it went dead.  Like that was going to help!  Anyway, I'm sure the creatures of the night heard the very loud #@! ("#@!$")*&#  from his mouth.  Was not pleased with him then, but now that I look back on it, it was pretty funny...

[tlhdoc]

When I tipped my first PU (1986 Coleman Sun Valley) the only noise was me telling my mother to move to the other end of the camper and the sound of 3 young boys laughing at us.  After the PU righted itself the boys asked us to "do it again".