More than a Diversion - a total escape from the everyday

Plugged in to a world class view

Me at our first camp

This looks like a set-up brochure shot - but it's for real

Excitement unfolds on our screen - reminds us of the drive-in as kids

View from Roy's man-cave day tent

We like it here so much we've extended our stay from 7 days to 10

Wow.

We're here.  People pay millions of dollars to live with a view like this. We paid $134 a week, which includes electricity, water and free broadband at this amazing Central Coast park.

Consider that our last electricity bill alone in our Blue Mountain home came to $2,150! That's quite a 240-volt jolt! That's also a lot of camping  money.

Our Winnebago Diversion is a dream and this Boomer community is amazing.

This morning Roy decided to try out one of the ablution blocks (even though we have our own shower and toilet on board).  It was pristine.

He met a guy coming out who said, with such genuine and friendly inquiry, "Hi, how are you going?" that he almost felt like telling him the truth.

"Well, not too good. I've just had my stomach cut open in two places to remove bilateral hernias. which turned out...."

Then a guy inside, busy shaving at a mirror, picked up the chain of greetings. "Good  morning, how are you doing?"

"Well a bit painful really, but fortunately they weren't actual hernias, but benign things called Lipomas, kind of fatty cysts, but they removed them and meshed the area anyway..."

Then on the way out another said.  "Good morning, how are you today?"

"Well, to be honest, I'm swollen down there like a bullfrog..."

Then it struck Roy.

These people were H-A-P-P-Y.

And a different kind a happy. 

A childhood, freely shared kind of happy. Not the smugness and selfish pursuit of luxury you see at a luxury resort.

There really is a kind of camaraderie of campers.

This grey nomad movement, or silvery nomads as we prefer to call them, certainly has a lot going for it.

Why didn't we do this years ago?