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[Bombsight]

How many of you "Glamp" when the day of traveling, hiking, photography, etc etc. is done?

 

When your gut is full after a good dinner, you're clean after showering and you start to become bored but the night is still long, do you turn on the idiot box?

 

When it's time to pass the early night away, where do you, or do you even, mount your TV's in your FWC's?

 

Will it be a DVD or satellite?

 

Is it blasphemy to even have one when camping?

 

Tell us about your TV's in your FWC's. 

 

 

 

 

[JHa6av8r]

We don't have a TV and very rarely turn on music when camping.  My goal is to not be in contact with anything outside, no phone, no internet, no generators near by.

[dorocks]

I confess. I carry a laptop for movies. Otherwise I fall asleep too early and wake up too early. Wife likes to sleep in. We read a lot though at night as well. Rarely sit outside at night. Hate mosquitoes.

Edited by dorocks, 07 May 2015 - 02:33 PM.

[ski3pin]

We don't have a TV and very rarely turn on music when camping.  My goal is to not be in contact with anything outside, no phone, no internet, no generators near by.

 

well said JHa6av8r and the reason we "get away"

[Wandering Sagebrush]

In our world, a TV is a tow vehicle, and is used to pull our travel trailer. Like JHa6av8r said, the pop up is for leaving some of the trappings of home... far behind.

[Old Crow]

Years ago we used to take a 13-inch Zenith dual-voltage black-and-white TV along on trips in our sport-top van. We loved it for our trips to Canada, where TV was different for us (and we learned of the 'Corner Gas' and 'North of 60' TV series we enjoyed)

 

When laptops came about, I bought a TV tuner for it but didn't use it much--- there just didn't seem to be much on and it took some setup.  We found we preferred to rent DVDs and have 'movie nights'

 

Before Blockbuster went bust we rented lots of DVD collections of TV series or shows like the 'Planet Earth' series.  I thought it a fantastic thing when I learned I could rent DVDs at one Blockbuster and return to another.

 

We've also spent quite a few evenings watching movies rented from Redbox kiosks at Walmart.  While we're on 'traveling through' days we'll often stop at a Walmart late in the day, rent a Redbox movie and watch it, then return it in the morning. Those can also be returned at other Redbox locations.

 

We are recent to the FWC world but expect pretty much the same approach in our Hawk.  I note, however, that on my recent month-long trip in the Hawk, I tended to spend a lot more time on the web via my iPad than on watching TV series or movies.

 

-OC

[SunMan]

We don't have a TV and very rarely turn on music when camping.  My goal is to not be in contact with anything outside, no phone, no internet, no generators near by.

 

x2. Silence for us.

[takesiteasy]

x2. Silence for us.

 

x3.

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Like Dorocks we carry a laptop and watch some DVDs we bring along.But mostly we like to spend out "off" time

reading or play Mexican Train.

Frank

[BobM]

I burn movies to my Ipad. Also use a great program called playlater that allows you to burn movies off Netflix, amazon, vudu etc. to your ipad for off grid viewing.