Yes we do it when we travel ,dump at some of the road side rest stops or some love's truck stops, changed out the water pump early on but will be getting a spare water is life .
Glamper 100%. We started tent camping many years ago when the kids were little. We are older, stuff hurts more and we want to be comfortable at this stage in our lives. We earned it.
Dawn Powerwash for cleaning dishes saves a ton of water. "Navy showers" save water. A portable shower stall (buy or build) and showering outside saves gray tank space. Prewashing fruits and veggies at home or when hooked up saves water and gray tank space.
I do both, I have only dry camped for a weekend. Next month I will be spending 5 days in Yosemite and there are no hook ups and 5 people. It will be fun!
Good to see you guys exploring more dry camping. It really opens up your options for camping. We dry camp often for a week at a time or more. We are in the Shenandoah National Park now, which only offers dry camping spots. Our Solar/Lithium/Inverter setup really makes it easy to dry camp. Most of our favorite sites in Canada and the US have been drycamping spots. We can go a week or more on 50 gallons of water, using our shower, you just get good at taking 2 gallon showers. You offer some really great tips for people that are considering dry camping who never do it. The truth of the mater is, with the explosion of camping we have to dry camp in really poplular areas because all the hookup campgrounds are full. Great video Izzy and MJ. I’m guessing there is a lot of dry camping in your future. See you out there. Larry
We do a lot of dry camping. We just came off a 3 1/2 week trip were we mainly dry camped. We use spray bottles to wash and rinse dishes and pans. We eat fresh vegetables a lot. We plan one pot meals when we cook. We carry dry fruit and nuts to snack on and mix into our meals. We have battery operated string lights for at night and a book light so I can read before going to bed. When no showers are available we use baby wipes to clean ourselves and a battery operated shaver . When we do use the generator we make sure that everything that needs to be charged up is plugged in. We only need to plug in the generator a max of 3 hrs. to get everything charged up for the next 24 hrs. Dry camping is easy if you plan a head. In fact we prefer it, places tend to be less crowded.
Great video. If you want bigger water tanks, check out Renegade Super C’s. Fresh water tanks are 150 gallons, black and grey tanks are 75 gallons each. It’s a lot less stressful having large tanks.
Me:83. Wife:80. 2001 Monaco Class A. 135,000 miles on it. We dry camp a lot. Biggest hint: You can dry camp in downtown Chicago at the "Marshalling Yard for McCormick Place" for $35/night... total dry camping there... we can go a week easily... even taking showers every other day. We plan ahead and dry camp at Wal-Marts, Flying-J, and often at a venue we simply ask if we can stay overnight, as at a museum, a parking lot of a boat trip, casinos (!), churches (call ahead and ask), Interstate rest areas, bar lots, Elks Lodges, Moose Lodges --- we both belong to both.... hundreds of places... we do not carry an extra water pump... only one replaced in 21 years.... And, even where we have full hookups WE DO NOT HOOKUP EVERYTHING... often only electric... why not? Because we don't need to dump everyday, we don't need more water everyday. We use only what we need. Too much work at our ages. We have auto levelers.... we seldom use them.... we carry a 2x12x24 planks and survey the site... and one under one wheel (or two for back doubles) usually gets us level... we have full awnings.... we don't use them... we simply sit on the shady side of the rv. Easy life.
We do it all and they have there ups and downs. So we like to mix it up. With 60 gallons of fresh water dry camping will last two of us and a dog 6 days. Then we water or move on to the next.
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We’ve never dry camped because we have no solar or generator. I would think it would be very easy with a generator. I was a little surprised though when you said how often you run the generator. I’ve heard others say it’s a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening. I would think even less than that if you don’t need air.
We did run the generator during the day to keep the air on when on the coach and top off the batteries, plus the best thing for the generator is to run it. They are made to run and last the longest when they are used regularly. Thanks for watching and the comment.
MJ, thanks especially for your toothbrushing tips. All these many years I’ve been taking my teeth out at night and soaking. I like your method better! 🙄
Another good video. I think we Dry camp more than being hookedup. Usually from Friday till Sunday we travel to tournaments and park at Wally World. 6 house batteries and Solar and I never worry about power. I run the Gen while traveling if it's hot for the ACs but I like this time of the year a like a week or so ago, with cool nights and windows cracked. 12.06 volts is 50% but I usually never drop down below 12.5 with just lights, TV and occasional water pump usage. We have a Septic so I just dump at home. Find the best way and do what works. Safe travels.
@@EndlessRVing I'm not a big Nascar fan but I thunk it would be fun to RV down Infield on a track. I love cars and enjoy seeing these videos of RVs there. Hey anything with an RV and I'm there!
Get some spray bottles for next time. Put dawn or whatever you use to clean in one and clean water in the other. That way your not using the same water to clean and rinse your dishes.
We dry camp some also. Not sure it's a good practice to take your dirty dishes to a public "spout" or water supply. You end up dumping or putting "gray water" onto the ground. AND now the ground around the water supply is wet and messy. i say, stay self contained and keep your solid/gray/black waste where your RV is signed to keep it. . . . .PS: we do enjoy your video's and have learned much. . .thank you!
If you are going to wash your dishes at a water hydrant make sure to scrape the plates and wipe them down with paper towels first so you leave no food residue. You can also use a container to catch the rinse water then put it on grass or at the base of a tree away from the faucet. We do that when tent camping. Food residue attracts ants.
We spent 8 days in a state park we had water and electric but no sewer, this is our test or practice for boondocking we used our bathroom consistently in other words we did not use the parks restroom for 8 days we also showered 2 people for 8 days practically every day, and we washed dishes every day inside. We have 2 gray tanks of 45 gal each and one black tank 45 gal in 8 days continuous use we did not fill the. We have done 14 days and only partially using showers and restrooms and walking to the park restroom during the day and still did not fill them. BTW we don’t use the crappy meters in the RV we know that if the toilet burps when you flush it’s full, or if water sits in the shower it’s full. So our next test is to try and measure the amount of water we use in that same number of days. I am getting a water meter to put on the hose that will display Gal of water used so we can estimate how much water we use on the same stretch of days. Our only downside is power we have lithium but no solar so we would be reliant on a generator. We plan on boondocking more but will have to figure it all out.
A little hot water and a big microfiber towel will allow you to skip a full shower if you are gonna be dry for an extended stay. And a dip in the pool if there is one available is great too. Streams and lakes well. ;-)
NASCAR Car baby, love it we have gone to Texas Motor Speedway once or twice a year for 10 years or more. Usually get there on Thursdays. Most of time is dry camping in unreserved. A couple of times we have done reserved with hookups. What great time either way.
We dry camp a few times a year with a BAY STAR. our tanks are similar to yours but we never use public facilities. We shower and use the RV for food prep with no problems; always enough water and holding tank capacity. It is easy as MJ said, you just pul in and set up the RV and your done. The Generator is a wonderful tool for dry camping!!! Welcome To Watkins Glenn, a really beautiful place in NYS.
You can dry camp even with small tanks. We've dry camped (2 adults) for 5 or 6 days in a 44 year old Airstream trailer with a 34 gallon water tank, 12 gallon grey tank, and a 10 gallon black tank. Take sponge baths, use public toilets if possible, use paper plates. Put diluted dish soap in a spray bottle and it takes much less water to rinse dishes off. Use the dishwater to flush the toilet because the gray tank fills up faster than the black tank. Conserve water is the big thing. We have 400w of solar and 220 AH golf cart batteries and only run a generator if we need to run the AC. Be creative, once we were camped at a rally on a city square and the city hospital was 1 block away. The ER was open 24 hrs so I used the bathroom there (my wife used the trailer). At the same rally, the Courthouse on the square had sewer cleanouts on all 2 sides which are exactly what you hook up to in an RV park. A friend's wife took a shower every day so he used a portable blue boy and dumped into the sewer at the building each night. Be creative. Add an outside shower to your rig and you can wash your hair outside and not fill the gray tank. It's also great if you camp on the beach to wash sand off before entering.
We do alot of dry camping especially out west.. We can go 4 days on a 55 gallon water tank for 2 ppl. Larger water tank is a big plus. We can run generator up to 8 days if running 24 hours per day. If your in a hot climate
Poor babies, dry camping in a Newmar. Try 7 days in a teardrop with 30 fresh, 12 black and 18 grey. To add to that no showers, potable water, and usually only a vault toilet. Oh, and no nearby dump station. :)
We do both Glamp and dry camp. We can dry camp (2-people) for a good 7 to 8 days, 100 gal fresh water, 58 gal gray, and 42 gal black. 100 Watt solar panel with a residential fridge running on 4 T-105 6-volt batteries. My biggest water saving tip is , we use a product call 'Shower Pill' they are full body wipes, almost better then using water, no joke.
We love dry camping, specifically boondocking. You guys need to come out west where there are limitless places to camp. Utility management is crucial. Water is the biggest problem but planning and flexibility will make it work.
Love my boondocking even in my sons travel trailer 😍 Wait until you do it on your own off beaten path !! It is so quiet and relaxing 😌 Safe Travels Great Advice 🥰
We prefer dry camping. We have a small toy hauler TT that has 100g fresh, 76g grey and 40g black. We also have a 4000W generator and some solar to keep the batteries topped off. We also have kids which complicates everything. Our boondockong is typically in areas off main roads where all we see are trees. So, one trick we learned to extend black tank use is to have a “poop tent”. We have a small 4X4 tent with a 5g Home Depot bucket. Campo sells a toilet seat that snaps on the bucket and a bag with some magic powder to help the poop decompose. When the bag is about half full, simply remove, zip closed and throw in trash bin. Many other tricks to help reduce fresh water usage also really helps. We do enjoy “glamping” from time to time
Without missing a beat you two are like RV Preppie couple god love you. My wife and truly love your channel. Don't ever stop this. We would love to let you take our 45 foot cornerstone for a long weekend and see what kind of video you would do.
Glad you enjoyed your first time dry docking. It gets easier as you go. I was surprised by your grey tank. We have a 60gal tank. Our black is 40 or 45 I think. Glad y'all had a great time and enjoyed. We love dry docking and boondocking in short stints. Do not like it for long stints though. We are with you on the hookups.
Well kids really just this year have started dry camping after 14 years of Monico RV ownership. Basically due to the fact that we can’t find reservations conveniently with hook ups. And you’re right it’s easy to do for for five days especially if you have large tank capacity which we have. Please keep up these videos they are great I just received my T-shirt in the mail I am in the ERV fan. Thomyt
I’ll do both but out west there are plenty of free dry camping spots. We have a toy hauler with 115 gal fresh water, 75 gray and 75 black. 400 watts of solar along with the Onan 5500 (60 gallons of gas). You guys evert make it to Utah…we will take you to some great remote spots. 👍
only time we have dry camped is at a Harvest Host just over night so no problems. Have no plans of going out in the middle of no where for days though.
Benn camping at the Glen for years, back in the 70's when it was FREE and the last 7 years in D section for the IMSA sports car races. Last year in my C I had my dog ( longhair Dachshund) with me so the generator was on from when I got up to quite time for the AC ( fridge was propane) gas for three days was$45, As you know it is no longer free. Also dry camp at Daytona, Sebring and Lime Rock (CT) .
We have a 2006 Newmar Ventana. We mostly have at least partial hookups. We have dry camped a good bit when in Yellowstone and the Black Hills area for up to two weeks at a time fairly easily. We do have 400 watts of solar but still have the flooded six volt batteries so the solar does help a lot. Solar doesn't eliminate the need for a generator but it definitely helps. RV refrigerator and large holding tanks also help. Lithium batteries would be nice but hard to justify the cost with the way we camp.
I do both types of camping in a 38’ Tiffin Allegro Bus. As much as I like convinces, I like my privacy more. As you said, start out with waste tanks empty, everything else topped off. Small camping area, site with electric only and I’m real good. No generator, small electronic work, etc. if I need microwave, or bigger stuff, then I’ll use generator briefly.
We have been researching with our 2011 Jayco Greyhawk 31DS and if we use it like we are on full hookups we can go about 2 days before we run out of water. What we did to combat that is we bought 5 gallon jugs and fill them up with potable water and we can put that water into our fresh water tank to give us more boondocking days.
Sorry we missed the chance to see you at WGI. We dry camp in section F track side every year. We dry camp a lot and even purchased a water bladder on Amazon to help with water usage. Many others at the track used ours as well. Dry camping is easy for us.
Had to chuckle when you said "We'll get even BIGGER tanks in the next motorhome!" We dry camp with small Class C motorhomes with holding tanks a third the size of what you have and can go for about a week before needing to dump/refresh the tanks. A lot of it is water conservation and using other water sources whenever possible. You should be able to go for a fairly long time in that unit. Plus the bigger the RV the less places you can dry camp.
You just have to use your resources carefully. We boondock in the mountains for a week with 2 6volt batteries 10 gallon propane and 35 gallons of water. We don't have solar and the only time we take a generator is if it's going to be super hot and we Want to be comfy with the a/c! Lol We learned all about resource management by Tent Camping for years.
👍👍 The other day, I found Advanced RV came up with this called ARV Recycle Shower System. 20 minute shower with only 2 gallons of water used. My biggest concern with dry camping is water. Electricity, not worried, there are many ways to deal with that. But water, if you run out, that's, The End.
I’m a glamper for sure. Lol! I could dry camp as long as no one cared that I ran my generator. Black tank isn’t a problem because I’m by myself and same with the grey tank. The only thing I’m not sure of is water. It would depend on how long I was there. One day, I’m going to be watching one of your videos as you’re giving a tour of your new Showhauler!! I just know it!
I'm a glamper too, I like my full hookups! We went camping this summer where there were full hookups, but it was literrally 119° and our poor AC couldn't keep up. We bought a really great generator but it is so loud we haven't used it camping yet. If we go dry camping, to somewhere there are no other campers, we will use it but we typically are in parks with full hookups.
Thank you for the great tips. Glad you like dry camping. I have dried camped years ago with my brother in law. We never had hook ups. Awkward used the campgrounds bathrooms. It was clean and fun to do. I would do it again. Izzy that’s a great way to wash dishes because that’s how we did it camping when we had a spicket to use. Thank you for these tips. Have a great night. See you soon!
I really enjoy having my 3-5 gallon primo water jugs, I can usually make 1 (3 gallon) jug using my hand pump to do dishes (also the water s purified so it can be used for drinking and cooking last a weekend Friday/Sat. Thank you for your helpful tips too! 🖖🏻😘👍🏻🙏🏻
Another great segment you guys! This looked like such a great trip. 😎👍 Some really good dry camping tips. We haven’t gone “un-hooked” yet, but it’s in the game plan. Looking for a rig with some level of solar. So we’ll see how it works out. Great stuff you two! 👍👍 Safe travels!
Great video, thanks. Dry camping is fun! Like you have, it's good to figure out your consumption so you have accurate estimates about how long you can go. I've run out of fresh water before and I was pretty remote so had to fill with 1-gallon RV antifreeze jugs. Not fun. Some people are weird about this, but do you drink the water in your fresh tank? I have for years and never had a problem - but some swear I will get sick because it is old/stale. Off-topic - but what is that mounted on your front license plate? Camera? Light? I'm always on the lookout for gadgets. Thanks.
Still learning what I can get away with. I will be doing both more next year. I let my generator run all night at rest areas. 8k burns quite a bit of gas. I really need better batteries too. "Stock" batteries just dont have the duration that better batteries have.
Great tips. We are like you guys, we typically GLAMP!! But staying at a Harvest host over the weekend or something as cool as staying in the infield of a race, I could certainly do that. Our tank sizes are slightly larger thank yours but would certainly need to adjust the style of camping to make it work for 5 days. How'd the batteries look in the morning after supporting the fridge all night?
Regarding Genturi or any other brand, always best to have a system that safely vents generator gasses up and out. If not there’s the potential of co2 venting into your or someone else’s open windows.
I'm trying to sale everything and purchase my first motorhome. I'm really wanting a class A between a 43 to 45. I willing to go to an older motorhome in able to achieve this. It seem to be hard to find anything newer than 2008, because everything else is already sold. Their are a few out their but the prices are way high , but still people are getting them as fast as they are put on the internet. I figure that with all fracking stopped and we have gone to a main exporter of oil and buying from the middle east will drive gas prices really high. As soon as diesel gets over five dollars a gallon people will be letting these motorhome go. I will have to wait and see I do not wish this to happen in anyway, but I would bet this is to happen in the next few months. I stay watching and learning about motorhome until them. Thanks for sharing your video with me !
Boondocking for me! Just spent 4 days/nights in an RV park for the first time and could not wait to get out of there. It feels like living in an apartment to me. No thanks
Did they require using Genturi generator exhaust systems to route exhaust up over the rigs? When we are at AKC dog agility trials where a lot of rigs are dry camping and parked closely, they do.
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Yes we do it when we travel ,dump at some of the road side rest stops or some love's truck stops, changed out the water pump early on but will be getting a spare water is life .
Glamper 100%. We started tent camping many years ago when the kids were little. We are older, stuff hurts more and we want to be comfortable at this stage in our lives. We earned it.
I hope you and the family are safe during the trying times, BE SAFE BE DRY.
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Try Dover in the Spring 2022. Lot 10 is Rowdy but a lot of fun.
Dawn Powerwash for cleaning dishes saves a ton of water. "Navy showers" save water. A portable shower stall (buy or build) and showering outside saves gray tank space. Prewashing fruits and veggies at home or when hooked up saves water and gray tank space.
Thank you for the videos you two do my wife and I are looking to get into our first camper, and we are learning so many things from your Chanel.
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I do both, I have only dry camped for a weekend. Next month I will be spending 5 days in Yosemite and there are no hook ups and 5 people. It will be fun!
Have fun!
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Good to see you guys exploring more dry camping. It really opens up your options for camping. We dry camp often for a week at a time or more. We are in the Shenandoah National Park now, which only offers dry camping spots. Our Solar/Lithium/Inverter setup really makes it easy to dry camp. Most of our favorite sites in Canada and the US have been drycamping spots. We can go a week or more on 50 gallons of water, using our shower, you just get good at taking 2 gallon showers. You offer some really great tips for people that are considering dry camping who never do it. The truth of the mater is, with the explosion of camping we have to dry camp in really poplular areas because all the hookup campgrounds are full. Great video Izzy and MJ. I’m guessing there is a lot of dry camping in your future. See you out there. Larry
We really enjoy it! Glad you guys are enjoying life out there on the road. Will you be at Tampa in January?
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We do a lot of dry camping. We just came off a 3 1/2 week trip were we mainly dry camped. We use spray bottles to wash and rinse dishes and pans. We eat fresh vegetables a lot. We plan one pot meals when we cook. We carry dry fruit and nuts to snack on and mix into our meals. We have battery operated string lights for at night and a book light so I can read before going to bed. When no showers are available we use baby wipes to clean ourselves and a battery operated shaver . When we do use the generator we make sure that everything that needs to be charged up is plugged in. We only need to plug in the generator a max of 3 hrs. to get everything charged up for the next 24 hrs. Dry camping is easy if you plan a head. In fact we prefer it, places tend to be less crowded.
Thanks for sharing
Great video. If you want bigger water tanks, check out Renegade Super C’s. Fresh water tanks are 150 gallons, black and grey tanks are 75 gallons each. It’s a lot less stressful having large tanks.
We've looked very closely at those. 😍
So nice to be able to take your coach just about anywhere. Nothing like having your own house on wheels near by while enjoying a full day of fun.
Absolutely!
Me:83. Wife:80. 2001 Monaco Class A. 135,000 miles on it. We dry camp a lot. Biggest hint: You can dry camp in downtown Chicago at the "Marshalling Yard for McCormick Place" for $35/night... total dry camping there... we can go a week easily... even taking showers every other day. We plan ahead and dry camp at Wal-Marts, Flying-J, and often at a venue we simply ask if we can stay overnight, as at a museum, a parking lot of a boat trip, casinos (!), churches (call ahead and ask), Interstate rest areas, bar lots, Elks Lodges, Moose Lodges --- we both belong to both.... hundreds of places... we do not carry an extra water pump... only one replaced in 21 years....
And, even where we have full hookups WE DO NOT HOOKUP EVERYTHING... often only electric... why not? Because we don't need to dump everyday, we don't need more water everyday. We use only what we need. Too much work at our ages. We have auto levelers.... we seldom use them.... we carry a 2x12x24 planks and survey the site... and one under one wheel (or two for back doubles) usually gets us level... we have full awnings.... we don't use them... we simply sit on the shady side of the rv. Easy life.
We do it all and they have there ups and downs. So we like to mix it up. With 60 gallons of fresh water dry camping will last two of us and a dog 6 days. Then we water or move on to the next.
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We’ve never dry camped because we have no solar or generator. I would think it would be very easy with a generator. I was a little surprised though when you said how often you run the generator. I’ve heard others say it’s a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening. I would think even less than that if you don’t need air.
We did run the generator during the day to keep the air on when on the coach and top off the batteries, plus the best thing for the generator is to run it. They are made to run and last the longest when they are used regularly. Thanks for watching and the comment.
MJ, thanks especially for your toothbrushing tips. All these many years I’ve been taking my teeth out at night and soaking. I like your method better! 🙄
Glad you guys have enjoyed yourselves. We do both on a regular!
Another good video. I think we Dry camp more than being hookedup. Usually from Friday till Sunday we travel to tournaments and park at Wally World. 6 house batteries and Solar and I never worry about power. I run the Gen while traveling if it's hot for the ACs but I like this time of the year a like a week or so ago, with cool nights and windows cracked. 12.06 volts is 50% but I usually never drop down below 12.5 with just lights, TV and occasional water pump usage. We have a Septic so I just dump at home. Find the best way and do what works. Safe travels.
That’s the beauty of the MH. Park it, level and kick in the generator!!
@@EndlessRVing I'm not a big Nascar fan but I thunk it would be fun to RV down Infield on a track. I love cars and enjoy seeing these videos of RVs there. Hey anything with an RV and I'm there!
Get some spray bottles for next time. Put dawn or whatever you use to clean in one and clean water in the other. That way your not using the same water to clean and rinse your dishes.
We dry camp some also. Not sure it's a good practice to take your dirty dishes to a public "spout" or water supply. You end up dumping or putting "gray water" onto the ground. AND now the ground around the water supply is wet and messy. i say, stay self contained and keep your solid/gray/black waste where your RV is signed to keep it. . . . .PS: we do enjoy your video's and have learned much. . .thank you!
If you are going to wash your dishes at a water hydrant make sure to scrape the plates and wipe them down with paper towels first so you leave no food residue. You can also use a container to catch the rinse water then put it on grass or at the base of a tree away from the faucet. We do that when tent camping. Food residue attracts ants.
We spent 8 days in a state park we had water and electric but no sewer, this is our test or practice for boondocking we used our bathroom consistently in other words we did not use the parks restroom for 8 days we also showered 2 people for 8 days practically every day, and we washed dishes every day inside. We have 2 gray tanks of 45 gal each and one black tank 45 gal in 8 days continuous use we did not fill the. We have done 14 days and only partially using showers and restrooms and walking to the park restroom during the day and still did not fill them. BTW we don’t use the crappy meters in the RV we know that if the toilet burps when you flush it’s full, or if water sits in the shower it’s full. So our next test is to try and measure the amount of water we use in that same number of days. I am getting a water meter to put on the hose that will display Gal of water used so we can estimate how much water we use on the same stretch of days. Our only downside is power we have lithium but no solar so we would be reliant on a generator. We plan on boondocking more but will have to figure it all out.
Thanks for sharing. 😃
Glamper here. lol
A little hot water and a big microfiber towel will allow you to skip a full shower if you are gonna be dry for an extended stay. And a dip in the pool if there is one available is great too. Streams and lakes well. ;-)
Thanks for sharing Keith!
NASCAR Car baby, love it we have gone to Texas Motor Speedway once or twice a year for 10 years or more. Usually get there on Thursdays. Most of time is dry camping in unreserved. A couple of times we have done reserved with hookups. What great time either way.
Thanks for sharing!!
We dry camp a few times a year with a BAY STAR. our tanks are similar to yours but we never use public facilities. We shower and use the RV for food prep with no problems; always enough water and holding tank capacity. It is easy as MJ said, you just pul in and set up the RV and your done. The Generator is a wonderful tool for dry camping!!! Welcome To Watkins Glenn, a really beautiful place in NYS.
You can dry camp even with small tanks. We've dry camped (2 adults) for 5 or 6 days in a 44 year old Airstream trailer with a 34 gallon water tank, 12 gallon grey tank, and a 10 gallon black tank. Take sponge baths, use public toilets if possible, use paper plates. Put diluted dish soap in a spray bottle and it takes much less water to rinse dishes off. Use the dishwater to flush the toilet because the gray tank fills up faster than the black tank. Conserve water is the big thing. We have 400w of solar and 220 AH golf cart batteries and only run a generator if we need to run the AC. Be creative, once we were camped at a rally on a city square and the city hospital was 1 block away. The ER was open 24 hrs so I used the bathroom there (my wife used the trailer). At the same rally, the Courthouse on the square had sewer cleanouts on all 2 sides which are exactly what you hook up to in an RV park. A friend's wife took a shower every day so he used a portable blue boy and dumped into the sewer at the building each night. Be creative. Add an outside shower to your rig and you can wash your hair outside and not fill the gray tank. It's also great if you camp on the beach to wash sand off before entering.
Glad you guys enjoyed this experience. I enjoyed hearing about it.
Thank you!
We do alot of dry camping especially out west.. We can go 4 days on a 55 gallon water tank for 2 ppl. Larger water tank is a big plus. We can run generator up to 8 days if running 24 hours per day. If your in a hot climate
Poor babies, dry camping in a Newmar. Try 7 days in a teardrop with 30 fresh, 12 black and 18 grey. To add to that no showers, potable water, and usually only a vault toilet. Oh, and no nearby dump station. :)
To each his own. 😉
Just look at it as a challenge.
Yes a fun one. 👍
You've given me courage to try it!
Good!
👍😎🍻🇨🇦…. We do both…
We do both Glamp and dry camp. We can dry camp (2-people) for a good 7 to 8 days, 100 gal fresh water, 58 gal gray, and 42 gal black. 100 Watt solar panel with a residential fridge running on 4 T-105 6-volt batteries. My biggest water saving tip is , we use a product call 'Shower Pill' they are full body wipes, almost better then using water, no joke.
Good tip. Thanks for the product find.
We love dry camping, specifically boondocking. You guys need to come out west where there are limitless places to camp. Utility management is crucial. Water is the biggest problem but planning and flexibility will make it work.
We look forward to coming out west!
Love my boondocking even in my sons travel trailer 😍 Wait until you do it on your own off beaten path !! It is so quiet and relaxing 😌 Safe Travels Great Advice 🥰
Yes we look forward to that.
We prefer dry camping. We have a small toy hauler TT that has 100g fresh, 76g grey and 40g black. We also have a 4000W generator and some solar to keep the batteries topped off.
We also have kids which complicates everything. Our boondockong is typically in areas off main roads where all we see are trees. So, one trick we learned to extend black tank use is to have a “poop tent”. We have a small 4X4 tent with a 5g Home Depot bucket. Campo sells a toilet seat that snaps on the bucket and a bag with some magic powder to help the poop decompose. When the bag is about half full, simply remove, zip closed and throw in trash bin.
Many other tricks to help reduce fresh water usage also really helps.
We do enjoy “glamping” from time to time
Without missing a beat you two are like RV Preppie couple god love you. My wife and truly love your channel. Don't ever stop this. We would love to let you take our 45 foot cornerstone for a long weekend and see what kind of video you would do.
We are looking for a 45 foot test coach to see if it would fit up the road to our home. We are pretty sure it will but not 100% certain lol
Dry camping is ALL I do!
Just "system" method... easy
If you're OCD-like (and 75)! ALOHA
Aloha! 😀
Glad you enjoyed your first time dry docking. It gets easier as you go. I was surprised by your grey tank. We have a 60gal tank. Our black is 40 or 45 I think. Glad y'all had a great time and enjoyed. We love dry docking and boondocking in short stints. Do not like it for long stints though. We are with you on the hookups.
Looks like y’all had fun! I hadn’t thought about carrying a spare water pump. Guess I need to research which one we should have.
Well kids really just this year have started dry camping after 14 years of Monico RV ownership. Basically due to the fact that we can’t find reservations conveniently with hook ups. And you’re right it’s easy to do for for five days especially if you have large tank capacity which we have. Please keep up these videos they are great I just received my T-shirt in the mail I am in the ERV fan. Thomyt
Yes, larger tanks definitely help! Thanks for supporting us and getting yourself a shirt. Much appreciated!
I’ll do both but out west there are plenty of free dry camping spots. We have a toy hauler with 115 gal fresh water, 75 gray and 75 black. 400 watts of solar along with the Onan 5500 (60 gallons of gas).
You guys evert make it to Utah…we will take you to some great remote spots. 👍
Can you tell me what water pump you purchased on Amazon?
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So would they have let you run a hose to one of those spigot to refill your fresh water tank if needed?
People were doing that.
only time we have dry camped is at a Harvest Host just over night so no problems. Have no plans of going out in the middle of no where for days though.
Yep one night is a piece of cake. We really enjoy it! :)
Benn camping at the Glen for years, back in the 70's when it was FREE and the last 7 years in D section for the IMSA sports car races. Last year in my C I had my dog ( longhair Dachshund) with me so the generator was on from when I got up to quite time for the AC ( fridge was propane) gas for three days was$45, As you know it is no longer free. Also dry camp at Daytona, Sebring and Lime Rock (CT) .
We have a 2006 Newmar Ventana. We mostly have at least partial hookups. We have dry camped a good bit when in Yellowstone and the Black Hills area for up to two weeks at a time fairly easily. We do have 400 watts of solar but still have the flooded six volt batteries so the solar does help a lot. Solar doesn't eliminate the need for a generator but it definitely helps. RV refrigerator and large holding tanks also help. Lithium batteries would be nice but hard to justify the cost with the way we camp.
Thanks for sharing!
My wife and do both. We use to have a pop-up so we are used to ruffing it. Now with the travel trailer 👌 😍 does not matter. Lol
I do both types of camping in a 38’ Tiffin Allegro Bus. As much as I like convinces, I like my privacy more.
As you said, start out with waste tanks empty, everything else topped off.
Small camping area, site with electric only and I’m real good. No generator, small electronic work, etc.
if I need microwave, or bigger stuff, then I’ll use generator briefly.
Thanks for sharing Ken
We have been researching with our 2011 Jayco Greyhawk 31DS and if we use it like we are on full hookups we can go about 2 days before we run out of water. What we did to combat that is we bought 5 gallon jugs and fill them up with potable water and we can put that water into our fresh water tank to give us more boondocking days.
And here I thought "dry camping" was camping without alcohol, lol. Definitely not what I expected either.
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Got to use that one! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Sorry we missed the chance to see you at WGI. We dry camp in section F track side every year. We dry camp a lot and even purchased a water bladder on Amazon to help with water usage. Many others at the track used ours as well. Dry camping is easy for us.
I think I’ll like dry camping in my camper/trailer when we get one. We are campers so used to not having all the luxurious of an RV
While camping when it's pretty warm the plus side of not using a generator for the a/c is the wife wears Less Clothes 😉🤭🥵
Had to chuckle when you said "We'll get even BIGGER tanks in the next motorhome!" We dry camp with small Class C motorhomes with holding tanks a third the size of what you have and can go for about a week before needing to dump/refresh the tanks. A lot of it is water conservation and using other water sources whenever possible. You should be able to go for a fairly long time in that unit. Plus the bigger the RV the less places you can dry camp.
We did have 3/4 tank left of fresh. Using the camp shower helped a lot
You just have to use your resources carefully.
We boondock in the mountains for a week with 2 6volt batteries 10 gallon propane and 35 gallons of water.
We don't have solar and the only time we take a generator is if it's going to be super hot and we Want to be comfy with the a/c! Lol
We learned all about resource management by Tent Camping for years.
@@jamesglenn520 It's impressive what you can make do with when you need to, and still have a great time!
👍👍 The other day, I found Advanced RV came up with this called ARV Recycle Shower System. 20 minute shower with only 2 gallons of water used. My biggest concern with dry camping is water. Electricity, not worried, there are many ways to deal with that. But water, if you run out, that's, The End.
I’m a glamper for sure. Lol! I could dry camp as long as no one cared that I ran my generator. Black tank isn’t a problem because I’m by myself and same with the grey tank. The only thing I’m not sure of is water. It would depend on how long I was there.
One day, I’m going to be watching one of your videos as you’re giving a tour of your new Showhauler!! I just know it!
Would be nice! 😀
I'm a glamper too, I like my full hookups! We went camping this summer where there were full hookups, but it was literrally 119° and our poor AC couldn't keep up. We bought a really great generator but it is so loud we haven't used it camping yet. If we go dry camping, to somewhere there are no other campers, we will use it but we typically are in parks with full hookups.
Thank you for the great tips. Glad you like dry camping. I have dried camped years ago with my brother in law. We never had hook ups. Awkward used the campgrounds bathrooms. It was clean and fun to do. I would do it again. Izzy that’s a great way to wash dishes because that’s how we did it camping when we had a spicket to use. Thank you for these tips. Have a great night. See you soon!
Glamper here class C. Dry is ok but like me full hookups
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Dry camping is the way to go. Definitely need solar panels; as many as will fit. :)
We glamor. Nice tips. Nice shady campsite. Thank you!
Yea it was a great site!
I really enjoy having my 3-5 gallon primo water jugs, I can usually make 1 (3 gallon) jug using my hand pump to do dishes (also the water s purified so it can be used for drinking and cooking last a weekend Friday/Sat. Thank you for your helpful tips too! 🖖🏻😘👍🏻🙏🏻
Another great segment you guys! This looked like such a great trip. 😎👍 Some really good dry camping tips. We haven’t gone “un-hooked” yet, but it’s in the game plan. Looking for a rig with some level of solar. So we’ll see how it works out.
Great stuff you two! 👍👍 Safe travels!
Thanks Will
Great video, thanks. Dry camping is fun! Like you have, it's good to figure out your consumption so you have accurate estimates about how long you can go. I've run out of fresh water before and I was pretty remote so had to fill with 1-gallon RV antifreeze jugs. Not fun. Some people are weird about this, but do you drink the water in your fresh tank? I have for years and never had a problem - but some swear I will get sick because it is old/stale.
Off-topic - but what is that mounted on your front license plate? Camera? Light? I'm always on the lookout for gadgets. Thanks.
Its a camera!
Have only glamped so far. Haven't really run into an instance where we would want or need to dry camp. Not against it.
Still learning what I can get away with. I will be doing both more next year. I let my generator run all night at rest areas. 8k burns quite a bit of gas. I really need better batteries too. "Stock" batteries just dont have the duration that better batteries have.
The stock batteries suck. At minimum an upgrade to 6v golf cart and the addition of an auto Gen start should give you what you need.
Is it safe to have that Mustang parked so close by??? LOL
It made it back home!
Great tips. We are like you guys, we typically GLAMP!! But staying at a Harvest host over the weekend or something as cool as staying in the infield of a race, I could certainly do that. Our tank sizes are slightly larger thank yours but would certainly need to adjust the style of camping to make it work for 5 days. How'd the batteries look in the morning after supporting the fridge all night?
Hey Tom
We were at 12.4 volts in the morning. That was from approx 10pm to 7am no generator.
That’s great. We haven’t tested ours yet. Thanks
Regarding Genturi or any other brand, always best to have a system that safely vents generator gasses up and out. If not there’s the potential of co2 venting into your or someone else’s open windows.
I'm trying to sale everything and purchase my first motorhome. I'm really wanting a class A between a 43 to 45.
I willing to go to an older motorhome in able to achieve this. It seem to be hard to find anything newer than 2008, because
everything else is already sold. Their are a few out their but the prices are way high , but still people are getting them as fast
as they are put on the internet. I figure that with all fracking stopped and we have gone to a main exporter of oil and buying
from the middle east will drive gas prices really high. As soon as diesel gets over five dollars a gallon people will be letting
these motorhome go. I will have to wait and see I do not wish this to happen in anyway, but I would bet this is to happen in the
next few months. I stay watching and learning about motorhome until them. Thanks for sharing your video with me !
If a person can afford a 250-750K MH, they can afford the fuel.
Do you have an RV fridge or residential?
Residential.
Boondocking for me! Just spent 4 days/nights in an RV park for the first time and could not wait to get out of there. It feels like living in an apartment to me. No thanks
Did they require using Genturi generator exhaust systems to route exhaust up over the rigs? When we are at AKC dog agility trials where a lot of rigs are dry camping and parked closely, they do.
No they did not. Lots of generators going at the track.
Weird? I was trying to give you a thumbs up and it wouldn’t work.
That is weird but thank you! 😀
I love boondocking.
Intro music sucks! Is that glamping music? You young people...;)
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your video is old news. you and hundreds of you yubers already covered this same stuff.i like your videos but move on
Our channel. Our version of telling how we do things. Feel free to follow your last piece of advice. 😉 - MJ