Summer heat

[Holdmybeer]

Yup. In High School in Florida, we never had AC in the classrooms, just open windows. Being young does help ignore the heat. Of course, these days, if the AC goes out in a school, they all go home.

95° wasn't as hot then as it is now.

 

[rjshiflet49]

There are small, almost unknown city RV parks scattered around Texas (and probably other states). One we stay at while en route to the Texas Coast is only $15 per night and that includes electricity. As others have stated, you really don't want to be boondocking in Texas in August or September. True, overnight low temperatures frequently stay in the 80s, but too often that 83 or 84 degrees comes just before sunrise when the temperatures start heating back up to 100-105 and the cycle starts again.

Also if you happen to be a "senior citizen" you can buy an annual pass for free admission and half-price camping at Corps of Engineers parks throughout the United States. We have a number of those parks in Texas and we recently stayed at a COE park along a beautiful river just outside of Tulsa, OK and I believe it was $12 per night for water and electricity. We had to use a dump station when we left...no sewer at most COE individual sites.

Senior Lifetime Pass

Good luck and happy travels!!

 

[fishslayer]

Yup. In High School in Florida, we never had AC in the classrooms, just open windows. Being young does help ignore the heat. Of course, these days, if the AC goes out in a school, they all go home.

Same here in the swamp..grew up with only attic fan, no ac at all.. no ac in. Schools til high school. dont remember it being unbearable..Now people go to a hotel if ac goes out.. we have gotten too soft

 

[Rollin Ollen]

Same here in the swamp..grew up with only attic fan, no ac at all.. no ac in. Schools til high school. dont remember it being unbearable..Now people go to a hotel if ac goes out.. we have gotten too soft

I don't know about soft. When temps hit above 80 (desert dry heat) we head from boondocking to an RV park with 50amp. We are at an age where comfort is important to us. If it costs a few bucks extra, we're okay with that. When we are in a hot humid location, boondocking is not even considered. And when driving, If the cab A/C can't keep up with the heat, then we run the genny for roof air. We "roughed it" years ago when comfort did not matter as much. We feel we have earned our comfort now.

 

[fishslayer]

Cant stay in the rv all day..i do a lot of fishing. Usually in the sun. .havent seen any air conditioned bass boats. Lol. We deal with it..and its about as hot and humid as you can find down here.

 

[osuallen]

Trust me! August and September in Texas is brutal. Often, the nightly lows can be in the 80's. Three choices- RV park, run a generator, tough it out, or, as a fourth choice, don't be in Texas in August and September.

Geez, In Oklahoma, our lows are in the upper 80's at times. Ditto on Jim's choice rank.