Should we stay or should we go?

[MommaMia]

Faced with this same quesiton for the week-end, except we are looking at all but Sunday with a chance (varies depending on time of day) of rain.  At this point, we are going.  We would lose all but $8 of a prepaid week-end; and are only 20 minutes from home.  If it gets REALLY bad, we will escape for a bit.  This is the first trip in the new-to-us pu, so we really want to go.

First trip Jan!  Hooray!  You won't want to "escape" even if it is pouring!  Camping in a pu in the rain is so much better that tent!  You'll wonder why you ever thought to bail out!  Have fun and be sure to give us a report!

BTW great to see ya!

[MommaMia]

Well..I'm one that probably wouldn't go....and it's only because we can't keep our PU at home, it has to stay in a storage lot. Actually....we aren't going this weekend because it's supposed to start raining on Saturday evening and rain through Monday.  We have no place to set it up to  dry.  However, if rain was for every day except the day we had to pack up and go home then I would go and just let it dry out on the last day before we packed up.  We are backward from everyone here.   Rain and our tent didn't bother us. We could shake out the tent and set it up in the yard  (or basement) to dry.    Rain and a folded popup just isn't a good thing.

Is it because you have neighborhood restrictions where you can't store a camper in your driveway?  If so, I'd bring it home, pop it up to dry for a day or so, then close it up and bring it to the storage lot.  I wouldn't consider 1-2 days storing it in your driveway, especially if it's popped up and you are "working on it".  By the time anyone had a chance to caomplain to the "property management" and they responded to the complaint, you'd have the camper back to the storage facility by then.

[vjm1639]

Is it because you have neighborhood restrictions where you can't store a camper in your driveway? If so, I'd bring it home, pop it up to dry for a day or so, then close it up and bring it to the storage lot. I wouldn't consider 1-2 days storing it in your driveway, especially if it's popped up and you are "working on it". By the time anyone had a chance to caomplain to the "property management" and they responded to the complaint, you'd have the camper back to the storage facility by then.

LOL..Home Owners Association is really strict where we live. We live in a townhouse subdivision also so there is no parking it in your driveway.     We have a space for each of our two vehicles and that's it.  The PU doesn't even know where we live!  LOL  It's never been at our house.   We have to do everything we do to it either at the storage lot (but can't leave it popped up there) or at a campsite.  Needless to say...we don't do many mods!

[MommaMia]

LOL..Home Owners Association is really strict where we live. We live in a townhouse subdivision also so there is no parking it in your driveway.     We have a space for each of our two vehicles and that's it.  The PU doesn't even know where we live!  LOL  It's never been at our house.   We have to do everything we do to it either at the storage lot (but can't leave it popped up there) or at a campsite.  Needless to say...we don't do many mods!

Don't you have even one friend that would let you pop it up in their driveway for a day?  Isn't that one thing that friends are for?  To help you out when you are in a jam?

[wiininkwe]

We were planning on going camping this weekend too, but our forcast is calling for rain for the entire weekend.  Not just rain, but highs in the 50's and lows in the 30's.   That's not just wet, it's wet and cold.  I can handle wet, and I can handle cold, but just not in the mood to be both.   Since our place is in the woods, even when it's not actively raining, water is dripping from the trees.  We'll just wait til things warm up a little more here in MI.
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[David Roder]

Go!! :tent:

[vjm1639]

Don't you have even one friend that would let you pop it up in their driveway for a day? Isn't that one thing that friends are for? To help you out when you are in a jam?

 
LOL.... I can tell you don't live in an area like we do... Almost every area around here has the same (or worse) rules.  ( I was actually born in Jax so I've been around that area too.  ;>     ) It took some getting use to when we first moved to this area. I had never heard of Associations telling you what color you can or can't paint your house, what specific kind of fence you have to have if  you want a privacy fence in your yard, if you can put in a flower bed where you want it, can you have a cream colored screen door instead of a brown one (or can you have one at all), etc.....   Anway...it's almost all Home Owners Association around here!  Even our friends who live in a house...with a driveway...have to keep their PU behind CLOSED garage doors!  It's not allowed to be seen!

[MommaMia]

LOL.... I can tell you don't live in an area like we do... Almost every area around here has the same (or worse) rules.  ( I was actually born in Jax so I've been around that area too.  ;>     ) It took some getting use to when we first moved to this area. I had never heard of Associations telling you what color you can or can't paint your house, what specific kind of fence you have to have if  you want a privacy fence in your yard, if you can put in a flower bed where you want it, can you have a cream colored screen door instead of a brown one (or can you have one at all), etc.....   Anway...it's almost all Home Owners Association around here!  Even our friends who live in a house...with a driveway...have to keep their PU behind CLOSED garage doors!  It's not allowed to be seen!

Your neighborhood is just like ours. (my BIL is in Yorktown so I know what you mean about the neighborhoods where you are) We have all those rules here.  We have to submit an application for approval, and a $35 fee everythime we want to do something.  We have to keep the pu in the garage.  Garage doors are never to be left open.  Only opened for ingress and egress. Door color, trim color, mailbox color, sidewalk color, roof color... everything!  You can't even just get a new mailbox post... it has to be just like all the others.  They even give you a scaled drawing of how the post must be constructed!  This is just the tip of the iceberg.  But I know that the pu CAN be opened up in the driveway for a day, to allow for maintainance.  Just like any vehicle. (we aren't allowed to have any vehicle that is a work in progress up on jack stands for more than 30 days).  But my point is that even though I may have the pu in the drive for more than a day, I'm done with it and it's out of sight before anyone gets achance to complain.

Although some of the rules are a PITA... I understand the reason for them.  It's to keep the neighborhood looking nice.  I don't want to see a purple house with awnings all falling down on all the windows and 3 junked cars parked on the lawn.  So I see the reasoning for it.  It's just that some of it goes a little too far.  IMO... if you popped the wet pu up in one of your spaces for an afternoon and popped it down and moved it to the storage facility that day, it shouldn't be a big deal.  If you left it there for 3 days, then I would say you are pushing it.

[MommaMia]

( I was actually born in Jax so I've been around that area too.  ;>    

We are in St. John's County... some around here don't even consider us as part of Jax... even to the city, we are considered St. Augustine, even though we have Jax address.

[vjm1639]

We are in St. John's County... some around here don't even consider us as part of Jax... even to the city, we are considered St. Augustine, even though we have Jax address.

I have a picture of myself somewhere in St. Augustine when I was about three.  LOL.     My father's family lives all around that area.   Actually, he was just down there two weeks ago preaching at some little church he grew up in.  Dad was born in Gainesville and lived there and Jax until he graduated from college in Tennessee. Thats when he fell in love with the mountains and eventually moved back to Tennessee.    I haven't been back to Florida in years but we use to go several times a year until I was in college.    
 
Yep....your neighborhood sounds as strict as ours...but our parking space isn't even big enough to open the PU! The F150 barely fits...not to mention, we get two spaces for vehicles only.  My poor son has a heck of a time finding a place to park his car when he's home from school. There is very little visitor parking and it's all taken up by cars of the driving age kids!  I'd love to move out of the townhouse area...but...have ya ever looked at the prices of houses in this DC area???  Good grief......