Where did you got your 'wilding-attitude' ?

Belgian

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Are you born as a wilder ? Or, how did you come to it ? :confused:
I just wondered. Myself I think it came from my scouting time.
How many of you were (maybe long ago) boy-scouts or girl-guides ? :confused:
 
Belgian said:
Are you born as a wilder ? Or, how did you come to it ? :confused:
I just wondered. Myself I think it came from my scouting time.
How many of you were (maybe long ago) boy-scouts or girl-guides ? :confused:
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No not me¬!
I am an ex International trucker and I like wandering as I have a little Aborigine blood in me
 
Hi Belgian
I too am an ex-international trucker. But forced to stop due to a bit of a disability.
With the van I can still get out and about, I love it, but I love driving, How sad am I?
 
I've always been into camping and outdoor pursuits.
Wilding in a motorhome is just a natural progression of that..... With added comfort.
 
i 've allways loved the great outdoors,i've got hills in my blood...:D:D:eek:
 
Me, well if its over there and I am over here I have got to be over there:)
 
Well, I am ex all of these, ex boy scout, ex soldier, ex International Trucker,ex caravanner, now retired, just hope I am not going to be an ex motorhomer as I have recently lost my wife, so now on much reduced income, and with the price of fuel etc I don't know if I will be able to run my pride and joy, and not sure if I will like going it "alone", anyone got any words of encouragement?

Tone
 
i think my attitude towards camping comes from my love of country. as i spent a lot of years on a farm in dover kent. and still love the dawn chrous as i come home after nights at work.
 
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As a kid my mum and dad had a Hiace, in which we travelled all round the UK. Since getting married my wife and I have been keen to spend a much of our free time as possible "outdoors", whether this be camping trip's or our love of music festivals. I have also been a carp angler for many years which has meant many a night under the stars.
I love the freedom of being able to do what you want when you want, and the motorhome tour round Europe has always been on the back burner. We married when very young and have had our family. The eldest is moving out very shortly, and the youngest is now happily living in Aus.

We aim to be on the road by the end of this year. Woohoo...........I cant wait :)
 
hillwalker said:
i 've allways loved the great outdoors,i've got hills in my blood...:D:D:eek:
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ouch that sounds painful....:p

I love traveling this country of ours UK done tents, in younger days caravans with the kids in tow, Hotels and B+B ... just don't fit in with the types of holiday I prefer... they do have their place So when we decided the move to Scotland would cost us too much in many ways we spent the money on a Mazda Bongo instead...:D and very happy too ... it lets us spend time in the trees.
 
Always been a Nomad. Started after my first marriage went pear shaped, sold everything bar my records and went off to India, then to the states and Mexico. Drove a V/dub from Boston to California then down to the Baja and Over to Porto Vallarta. Then drove up from Texas to New jersey with some crazy Hippy Yanks in 36 hours. When I got back I got a job taking adventure tours all over Europe in a converted Double Decker bus. We took that through the Middle East Syria, Jordan, and through Turkey en-rote to India but Iran kicked off so we headed back. Then I got a job with a company running more organized adventure tours this time going through Russia when Brezhnev was still in the throne. Through Scandinavia and Poland getting stuck behind a bus doing 5 m.p.h, when we overtook it was being towed by a horse. When I kicked that into touch I took some school groups to Europe but it was too normal. Then I got a Splitty KEG 22E which I loved and took everywhere until it died and left it with my brother who sold it for less than the plate was worth GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrr!!! then I built a narrow boat and then another which I lived on for 14 years whilst building them for others. When we had seen and done that it was a natural progression, (or is it regression) back to wheels and now its started all over again.................:cool:
 
just an ex trucker

spent half of my life wilding it in the cab .in the early years with a atkinson with a wooden cab the bed was just a flat board between the engine and window ledges .
my last truck was a scania 420 artic with a proper sleeper cab
many miles and many memories
those were the days when the job was an adventure
every where from moscow to southern portugal to bagdad and saudi ect
but we cant turn the clock back so wildcamping is the next best thing
 
Belgian said:
Are you born as a wilder ? Or, how did you come to it ? :confused:
I just wondered. Myself I think it came from my scouting time.
How many of you were (maybe long ago) boy-scouts or girl-guides ? :confused:
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ex scout through 60s (big hat n shorts) did tents, progressed to mattress
in back of old ford thames, then got married and had to get sensible and got our first camper.
Always done wild camping as often as I could........
 
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Slim said:
ex scout through 60s (big hat n shorts) did tents, progressed to mattress
in back of old ford thames, then got married and had to get sensible and got our first camper.
Always done wild camping as often as I could........
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I suppose our stories are all much the same,:cool:
I was, scouts, tents, boats, caravans, campers,
but also curiosity, Ive always wanted to know
whats round the next corner :confused: :D :D
 
Yes , I did the cubs then the scouts,then the T.A.(21 years) slept under the stars, in slit trenches,ditches,back garden with the kids:eek::D.
30 years ago did Scotland in our Austin 1100 with diy wooden roofrack and canvas tent,the highlight being a ride to the top of a mountain in a chairlift in the Cairngorms with my oldest (6 months) wrapped in a shawl, a bit of a nightmare when we hit the freezing fog and wondered whether we had done the right thing, luckily there was a cafe at the top where we could thaw out before the return to base camp.
The other highlight being our dog(Bobby) at the time peeing up the towels of the German campers that were hanging from their guy ropes:eek::rolleyes:
In the meantme ,done frame tents ,trailer tents, caravan:eek:(stressfull) and various hideous campervans:eek:
So now ,the only way is up:cool:, anyone can rough it ,
 
chairlift pies

hope you didn't eat the pies in the cafe (the ptarmigan) in cairngorms.:eek:
they always seem a bit squashed.:eek:
the story goes that, all these years ago, the only way to get the pies
to the cafe, was via the chairlift,
and the easiest way to get them there during high winds
was to put them on the chair & sit on them.:eek:
don't know of there is any truth in the story
but we never ate them ;)
 
Keep going brother.I am on my own now.I got myself an ex BT Transit with a bunk and some army surplus kit.I am ex army and I love the wild stuff.
 
Well now to be sure thats a good question now.
My biological father was Irish and came from southern Ireland to the north east England for work, so i tink its the Irish tinker in me or should that be stinker.:eek:
Plus i did some camping with the Cubs and Scouts, at the age of 18 i was always looking in the local news papers and the exchange and mart dreaming of owning a van one day well wages were not all that good in them days so it took me a long time to get one.
It was not the van or what it had in it that counted realy, it was just a means to an end a tool to get me away to where i liked to be most out in the countryside with a good feeling of freedom, away from the maddening crowd.
And so i have got to admire the previous post by Grandad as he is still doing it the hard way, old Soldiers never die.;)
 
tinkers

trevor, maybe we're related. i too think that tinker/gypsy blood is in my viens. if it had been 100years ago maybe we would have been posting on "wild camping for horse and carts".
i love those old carts but i prefer my campervan.( would you need to bag the horse manure as dog owners bag their dogs stuff)
 
irenerobbie said:
trevor, maybe we're related. i too think that tinker/gypsy blood is in my viens. if it had been 100years ago maybe we would have been posting on "wild camping for horse and carts".
i love those old carts but i prefer my campervan.( would you need to bag the horse manure as dog owners bag their dogs stuff)
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We used to collect the Horse Manure and my Dad would spread it on the garden, he always it was particularly good on the rhubarb.
Then i siad dad other kids in the street have custard on there rhubarb. ;)
 
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