Starting Over - Getting reacquainted

[chkster]

charles and cheryl here...
AKA
Chkster and Hapekampr
check our license plates and screen names it is true!
new owners first popup
Coachmen CLipper Classic 1070st
learned a lot in the forums great resources
Great to hear that Viking is on board as we own a VIKING product  :-D

[Tim5055]

Well, i guess I'm a little late to this party - but I am a pop-up-aholic.

Anyone who has visited my web site should have figured that out.  As I posted over on PUX:

Having lived in Maryland I had the pleasure of meeting Dave (the owner of PUT) and count him among my friends.

While my site is a hobby, his is part of his business - and just like Dean he is a small business person who is trying to make things work.

I applaud Coachmen for sponsoring the site. Maybe with more exposure for all the sites we can turn the declining sales numbers for pop ups.

I for one love my tent on wheels and enjoy sitting around many campfires.

[Firefyter-Emt]

Well, i guess I'm a little late to this party - but I am a pop-up-aholic.
 
Anyone who has visited my web site should have figured that out. As I posted over on PUX:

Just to make ya feel better Tim... Hey ya all!!  

[afp]

I started off tent camping with my folks while growing up in Northern Indiana. Most off the time we would travel to the Southwestern part of Michigan. Once the teen years came about the camping faded away. After graduating from college and taking a job in Southwest Ohio the thought of camping would come and go. My wife and I purchased a tent several years ago, but were never serious about it. I would read the occasional RV magazine and pickup the annual issue of Woodall's to look through and dream. About four years ago I found the PUT website/magazine and started to read about PU camping. Early this Spring, right after the annual camping show in Mason, OH I found a used 1995 Jayco PU at the local Jayco dealership and after my wife and looked at it we decided to try it. It was okay, but the breaking down and need for additional storage the PU wasn't what we wanted. We found a used (and well kept) 2000 Coyote 21C Hybird and were really impressed with the room and features these units have. The Jayco was sold (it only took 1 day!) and the Coyote was purchased. The hybird was a good compromise.

[mikebike]

:yikes:  I am back.... well kind of...

was one of the early relics here... been camping for years.... still get out about 35 -40 nights a year

been hangin at a couple other cyber fires lately...

wanted to drop by and commend Dave on the fine job he has done here over the years

[PopupSgt]

I started off tent camping with my folks while growing up in Northern Indiana. Most off the time we would travel to the Southwestern part of Michigan. Once the teen years came about the camping faded away. After graduating from college and taking a job in Southwest Ohio the thought of camping would come and go. My wife and I purchased a tent several years ago, but were never serious about it. I would read the occasional RV magazine and pickup the annual issue of Woodall's to look through and dream. About four years ago I found the PUT website/magazine and started to read about PU camping. Early this Spring, right after the annual camping show in Mason, OH I found a used 1995 Jayco PU at the local Jayco dealership and after my wife and looked at it we decided to try it. It was okay, but the breaking down and need for additional storage the PU wasn't what we wanted. We found a used (and well kept) 2000 Coyote 21C Hybird and were really impressed with the room and features these units have. The Jayco was sold (it only took 1 day!) and the Coyote was purchased. The hybird was a good compromise.

AFP,
Your in my neck of the woods, I'm located in Mason.   [/color]

[Venatic]

I guess I don't qualify as a campaholic, because we don't get out as often we'd like. But we get out when we can.

I get to use the PU more than the family does. I don't know why the wife doesn't want to come along when we go turkey and deer hunting. If she did, she'd get to go camping more often.

We started out like everyone else with a tent when we first got married. But after the kids were born, we didn't go for the longest time until we bought our PU in 2001.

Every year we say we are going to try and get out more, but something always comes up every weekend, and we end up not going. I guess that can be a New Year's resolution to go camping more often. Then I'll be a campaholic!

[surfin_sarah]

My sig line speaks for itself! Happy New Year every1!

[Gone-Camping]

Guess I should log-in and say hello!! I too go way back on this board...

Happy New Year everyone!

[gsm x2]

Happy New Year,

My dear wife and I are active in NNC and SCC, but haven't been camping in way to long.  New trip will be Olema, unless we get a chance to camp before then....if the rain ever stops.
 
We've towed our camper to numerous PUT camp outs and twice have taken it on extended trips, 4 and 5 weeks respectively.  Love camping in our popup.
 
gsm x2

[vjm1639]

Yea!! This is exciting seeing so many folks coming back!  Hi Cliff...nice to see you around again!  

 I am a campaholic and am looking forward to camping again!!  Our unseasonably warm weather the past few days has really made the camping bug bite!  :>
 
 
Happy New Year to all!!!

[Surfcal]

Hello Room:
 
Happy to be here.  I am not a recovering pop-a-holic.  My goal is to do extended camping like GSM X2.
 
Surfcal

[Diplomat]

It has been far too long since my last post (June to be exact!)

Since that last post I retired from the Marine Corps, moved back to my home state of Kentucky, bought a new house and car, and started a new career.  Kinda busy :eyecrazy:  :eyecrazy:

One the way here from So Cal we spent nearly three weeks camping, hitting, Zion, Bryce, Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP's as well as several Forests and State Parks.  Unfortunately the PU has been idle ever since!  It also has a new home in a storage facility since our HOA won't allow it to be stored in view of the street.

I have been lurking pretty regularily, it is great to see the pick up in postings, I hope it continues.  I keep reminding my self that Dave is, first and foremost, in the publishing business and hope that he never loses site of that.  There is a place for a dedicated mag for us, nothing, especially not this site, should cause Dave to lose focus on his primary mission; to publish the best magazine he possibly can.

[OC Campers]

Jeff and Kathy It is so good to hear from you guys.  I hope you enjoy your new area.  Things are so different outside of Southern California.  Even moving up to northern California like we did is like moving to a different world.

I hope you get a chance to camp once things thaw out.  There is some beautiful country in the mid-west.
 
Jacqui

[towrod]

...  Things are so different outside of Southern California.  Even moving up to northern California like we did is like moving to a different world.

I never knew I was an alien!   Oh, wait, maybe it's the so-cal folk that are the aliens?    OK I'm confused :confused: