Farm Camping

Every year we camp for 2 weeks in Missouri in a farming area. Once your off the main road the farm roads can be pretty bad. We got excited when we were told they had paved one of the ones we take in to reach the farms we visit. We found out paving up there means they put some gravel down. Gravel is good though....because with out it the dirt roads up there turn to the consistency of Jello pudding when it rains.


The gravel keeps some of the heavy dust down but there is still some dust. Of course we just drive in...set up stay two weeks and leave. The dust going in to the farm is really not much....the dust driving the roads in my truck for 2 weeks is a LOT! The truck gets covered with it....on the outside and the inside of the truck bed. (I do have a Leer topper on the truck bed) We park in fields/pastures almost daily and on cold mornings the cows come around the truck to warm up and they put nose prints all over the dusty truck! Usually I can take one or two sheets of those pop up wet wipe things and dust the inside of the TM right after we set up. It usually only takes one and never more then two of those wet wipes. We usually have a little dust on the wall between the sink and the sofa area and usually just on the side of the camper with the kitchen sink.

The truck bed is scrubbed and rinsed out after we get home. We used to clean it before the return home trip but had water freeze in the locks once...so now we wait till we get back.

I aave never heard of FARM CAMPING. Is this friends farm? How does this work. We are in San Dego CA and no one I know of talks about FARM CAMPING.
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We go there for the archery deer season and have one uncle with a large farm ...over 5,000 acres and another uncle with a small place with only 40 acres. We like the smaller place to set up our TM...but mostly because there are a couple of cats there. The year before last my brother in law and his wife stayed at the large farm with no cats and took 37 field mice with them when they left in their 40 ft motor home...we did not take any mice home.

They are both set up to have family camp ...each farm is set up with both 50 and 30 amp plugs and you can hook up directly to the septic tank when you need to dump.

We have a lot of fun visiting with relatives while we are there. My Mother in law usually goes to visit at the same time by plane. We could stay in the house but like having our own space. They get a lot of visitors and last year there were two other sets of Aunts and Uncles visiting while we were there. So bedrooms were on short supply anyway. Before we bought the TM we stayed in town and drove out to the farms every day.

My point of my original post was how dusty the farm roads are and how little dust we get inside on our drive in from the main road. I just checked with Tom...and I guess it is not a fair comparison...because it is only about a 3 and 1/2 mile road....I guess it seems longer because we drive slowly down this road.

Thanks for the information. There are no Farm on any side of our family so I guess it's "Pay as you go" for us. LOL But it was interesting to know how some folks use their TM.

Thanks again
John