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Santa


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Sarco Harris wrote:

So, I guess, from what all responses so far have been, you all sit inside your vans and ignore those around you from the end of happy hour til dawn (or more likely mid morning) then emerge for the day. Not particularly interesting in my opinion.

Sarco

 Happy hours are not our thing, nor is sitting around talking rubbish to people you have absolutely nothing in common with.

Once in a while (not often) you meet a kindred spirit.

So! the question is (What do you do at night ? ) where to start, so many and varied interests, sharing a bottle of wine, music, reviewing the days pics, chess, planning the next days agenda, cooking a meal, sitting round a fire.

One thing we don't resort to is TV, we have two in the motor home, they don't get used.smile



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We live full time in the motorhome - we have a TV, but haven't watched it for ages (we have reception at the moment), we play on computers, read the forum, answer some posts, check out the FB, ring family and friends, have some people over for a visit and a chat - usually in bed by 11pm, sometimes earlier, we have played games, like UNO, or Chinese Checkers. I have games on my computer and my tablet, also read books on tablet, sometimes the other half will be watching a TV series, and get engrossed, so I go off to bed - read, play, whatever.

We also have music going 24/7, and that makes time pass very quickly.

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Read; the Paperwhite frontlight Kindle is wonderful.

Gaze into my campfire and contemplate the universe.

Listen to spoken word audio from my huge collection of BBC dramas, comedies and documentaries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio

And, best of all, talk with my friends and make new ones via Amateur Radio - nowadays it is very easy to get a basic licence:

http://www.wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/about/



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Jingjoe wrote:

We are about to go on our first extended caravan trip and I find the nights the hardest During the day we go exploring or sight seeing but I find I am very bored and restless at night. Not really TV people. Any suggestions to fill in the evening hours ? 

 G'day mate

Others above have given a selection of answers - and each of us is different

We are on the road for about 280-300 days each year, and have been since 2004.  We have dumped the TV long ago ... crappy [to us] programs, poor to non-existent reception when outside towns - we do not use CPs in towns anyway, too much noise & squashed into too small a campsite

What we do is to raid a town's Op Shop and buy a dozen or so books for a similar number of dollars, and sit back and read them, until swapping them in the next town's Op Shop and so it continues.  We each read 30 to 40 books each trip away, and it now becomes part of our lifestyle.  We also enjoy Canasta & Bolivia, so occasionally we get together with others and have an afternoon + dinner playing cards relaxing as well

Every so often there is a newsletter emailed to friends-romans & countrymen describing the "awful lifestyle but someone's gotta do it" that we enjoy, there's photos of places we go to that are uploaded to Flickr so those same friends can view them if they want to ... and so it goes on

Hope this helps, Phil



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