RV Park, very nice very well maintained, no
crime, owned by a very nice gentleman who looks at detail, and employs special
care for his guest. There are 65 sites in total. Very reasonable price for the
service he provides. So to begin this
study I gave my time to helping the owner for a year and for that year he gave
me a site at no charge for the work I did. This then allowed me to interact
with the people that came in and out on a daily basis, just what I needed to
employ this study. Being that there is no real control group this would then
not be a scientific study. More like
personal observations.
There are two groups of RV types. We will
talk about the first group now. If this
group had a name it would be, Long Term Travelers. This is a group that is made
up of men and women that have to travel for their jobs and stay in RV’s, in parks
to save money. In the long run it is somewhat cheaper. Now we have had families
and individuals stay here sometimes up to a year or more. Now these people I
would classify as hard working family oriented and private. Every type of RV is
used some from $2000 to $2.5 million. All colors and creeds are represented.
Every religion, family view point and so on. In this group we have a wide range
of attitudes, from happy go lucky and just plain quiet. There are a myriad of
back grounds from company owners to welders and just about every kind of job
you can think of. But the one thing that stands out to me about this group
would be kindness and a sense of community. It would sound strange had I not
seen it for myself. But long term travelers seek out and then become part of
the small community. We look out for each other, plan events, and sometimes
just set around and talk about family. There seems to be no class warfare or an
attempt to one up each other. My wife Ashley benefits from this because she
found a person with similar interest, and she admits the meeting of this person
has profoundly changed her life. I, seeing this from my viewpoint was very
astonished at how that process worked. But Ashley’s friend and her husband are
typical of what we have experienced, kindness caring and just down right family
friendly. And when it comes that time when things change, like one leaves and
another comes. There is a sense of sadness and a sense of joy of meeting
someone new. But the overall experience with this group is positive and
enlightening.
The second group and the most intriguing
would be the travelers. This is a very diverse group, ranging from the same
back grounds as the first. But there is a difference to this group. You know
how they say “you run into all kinds” well in this group you do. There are
three sub groups to this.
A) Arrogant: And by this I mean Class means
everything, too good for you and anyone around them, unless the person they
interact with has a comparable RV and Attitude to go with it.
B) Quiet: Just that quiet, they come in and stay
in and do not interact with anyone.
C) Normal: By normal I mean they are very
responsive nice and interact with everyone, no class bashing. Family oriented
and just out to meet new people and go see new places.
Now to put
this all together will be somewhat of a challenge. On any given day you will
meet a different type of person or persons. In this study I had ran across some
of the most interesting people you could ever meet. I meet a man and woman from
the town where I had been born Toul France. I meet a couple from Australia and
still friends with them today. You name it they have come from all over the
world through this little town in Alabama.
Now during
this part of the study the people of interest were the ones who come in and
stay from one day to 2 weeks. Now some people are very quiet and stay to themselves.
You have a very large group of them who treat you according to what they own,
and by that I mean if they drive or pull a very expensive RV and well that
attitude comes out. In this study the one that stands out to me the most had to
be a very expensive bus (RV) with 6 gentlemen going to play golf at 140.00 per
round. Then in turn, complained about
27.00 dollar a night stay. That one confused me. Offset by that a family from
Florida came in and he had a 2.5 million dollar rig (RV) and stuck me as a very
kind nonjudgmental friendly man. He even asked me to come see his rig (RV) “breathtaking”.
A professional Bass fisherman came in
with a rig (RV) that was beautiful. He had his picture on the side and he
pulled a boat and a car and knowing this man after researching him, he was a
very wealthy businessman. I had spent some time getting to know him while he
was here for a tournament and found him to be kind and very friendly. He took
his boat to a tournament in Florida and left his rig (RV) on site. The shocker
was he gave me the keys to his 1 million dollar rig (RV) just in case it had to
be moved while it was here. That should give you an idea of what kind of man he
was.
Over all in
the soon to be published study of the numbers, they came out very different
than I had expected. I found that there are some very good people in this
country that do not care about your status and a small percentage that do. But by enlarge people are kind and very
interesting. Over the last year I have heard stories from all over the country
and the world, from all walks of life and religious and political perspective. We
generally want the same thing. A good living environment and trusting friends
and a world our kids can grow up in that is safe. In this study I notice people
are all alike, even from different countries; we all want the same thing. Over
all this was a great experience and the published study will be worth the read.
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