Camping advice?

I've always felt very drawn to camper vans and the freedom they bring. My husband and I had narrow boats and that's a similar concept. I think you probably get more comfort in the cabin, a decent mattress but being on the move has to be the winner for me still 😊

Cabin. My father and I, along with a carpenter friend, built a cabin by a lake when I was a teenager. I spent many hours with friends in that cabin.

I think you'd find the cabin far more comfortable. and it's got the advantage of being someplace that you can learn about deeply, know where certain things are. the bigger benefit on an rv of some sort is you can go to many different places.

if things were up to me and I had enough free time to warrant it, I'd want to have both. if I could only do one or the other, I'd probably take an rv before a dedicated cabin - they're too probe/liable to damage from some miscreant finding it randomly. or worse hurting themselves and suing you for it.

I've gad both i personally prefer the cabin

Ooh .. nice! I'm leaning toward mobile .. perhaps with a small home base near family to come back to at times.

How cute!

it's nice having one's own place.. i wouldn't sell for a camper .. it will lose value.. property is more solid of an investment .. the nice thing about a camper is you can travel around with it but it's expensive to travel especially now with higher gas prices plus camping fees aren't exactly inexpensive either some places charge the price of a hotel to camp it just doesn't even make sense

I’m partial to my travel trailer for the flexibility of visiting different places. Plus being a towable once it’s set up it can stay and I have a vehicle for sight seeing.

Cabin

Hmm? I would settle in the cabin and call it home. I prefer the smaller cozy space. Road trips are great sleeping in a van not so much.

A new place every night is appealing, but there is a lot of maintenance and EOL is way sooner.
In your cabin you can just unload the car and relax.
I would think Trump has eliminated anyone wanting to camp this year with gas prices so high.
If you can wait 2 more years then look at it again?

A camper van will depreciate year after year and eventually be worth nothing.
The cabin and land will always be worth something.

Camper vans are nice, but I’d try to find a different method of affording one, or maybe just rent one for a while?

Good luck.

I think it depends on where you live and how much privacy you want. A lot of public campgrounds are more noisy than what you’re probably used to. Maybe that’s not an issue, but it will likely be different anyway.