Campervan....

[pseudolus]

Why do you need 3 dogs ? For security ?

Long story involving an exwife.

I'd have thought the idea of a holiday was to get away from walking dogs/clearing up of piles of shit .

Nah - i like my dogs. Love cruising around with them, and they are off a sort that they get a lot of attention.

Don't you have an in-law that can stay in your house and take care of them ?

Yes I do. However, well, I don't really want to go down that route.

[VocalNeal]

One potential problem would be that the donor vehicle is a bus.

Given that driving motor vehicles is a reserved occupation for Thais, can a farang even get a license to drive a bus? Probably but...

Not that should discourage one, few hundred baht here and there!

The actual camping experience not with standing it would be easier to get a small trailer for the dogs and sleep in a hotel with the trailer and dogs outside!

[pseudolus]

The actual camping experience not with standing

But it is the camping experience that I like. I spend so much time in hotels with work I don't really enjoy basing holidays in them. The other options are villas etc but then you are really tied down to one venue.

Like Terry up a bit, just parking up in some remote place, frying up a steak, having a drink watching the sun go down with only the mossies for company... oh and the missus. Heaven.

[Mr Earl]

The much more practical and cheaper option is to use a big tent for your camping. That way you can fit every into a small pickup truck. It's a little more work but hey that's part of the camping fun, yeah!

RV's man, very expensive and basically it's a rolling toilet.

[pseudolus]

The much more practical and cheaper option is to use a big tent for your camping.

Would have to be pretty sturdy to prevent one of the dogs legging it......I explored this initially. Also the lack of aircon would piss me off. I'm not so concerned about the cash. But the very valid point of where I could go does concern me. Would park up anywhere, but thinking about it, Thailands not exactly set up for parking anywhere I guess.

[pseudolus]

Say up in Chiang Rai - in the hills and lakes, anyone know of places to park up? Some of the islands not so bad, Koh Chang lots of places to tuck away for example. Chiang Mai has some camp sites, not in parks. Down south, on the road to and past Hua Hin? Around route 4 by Khoa Lak, bound to be places there on that huge stretch of beach to park up. Worst that happens is you end up sleeping in PTT gas station and spending the days at the beach?

Possibilities endless but also it seems severely limited.

[thaimeme]

Why do you need 3 dogs ? For security ?

I'd have thought the idea of a holiday was to get away from walking dogs/clearing up of piles of shit .

Don't you have an in-law that can stay in your house and take care of them ?

For the life of me, can't understand how some allow their lives to become dependent and restricted [in general] because of their dogs.

In this case, best to leave them at home and have someone that you trust look after them for the time being.

...or, don't have dogs.

[Dillinger]

I'm sure Kurgen or Loy Toy will be along soon with an offer of free digs, a run of the lawn and use of their pools

[Shy Guava]

Here ya go:

2015 Motor Home

[Mr Earl]

Why do you need 3 dogs ? For security ?

I'd have thought the idea of a holiday was to get away from walking dogs/clearing up of piles of shit .

Don't you have an in-law that can stay in your house and take care of them ?

For the life of me, can't understand how some allow their lives to become dependent and restricted [in general] because of their dogs.

In this case, best to leave them at home and have someone that you trust look after them for the time being.

...or, don't have dogs.

I like dogs but as long as they're not mine. I don't want the responsibilty.

When I travel I can fit it all on a motorcycle. The freedom of that is invigorating.

[ltnt]

So "P," with all this cash floating about, where ya gonna park it when not in use?

I was thinking again, why don't you hire a "dog sitter?" You can pick her out of the herd....just saying...after a couple trips with three dogs and a wife couped up in a Styrofoam Fiberglas mobile bean bag that may get used once or twice a year, I think you may want to use a stick of dynamite on the man-van.

[Dillinger]

I should imagine that campervan will stink to high heaven on the way back from Chiang Rai, with 3 big dogs. In Thailand,even if the dogs are not wet they still reek due to the humidity. Add to that a dogs liking to roll around in buffalo shit....

That van will be humming like one of Terry's 600 baht long time motels in no time

[Mr Earl]

If ya really want an RV, here's the deal.
Camping-cars RAPIDO France

I saw a really nifty model in Scotland which had a rear compartment that housed a Honda Wave 125. Slick kit, which got 35mpg's powered by an Inveco diesel engine.

[Topper]

Here in Bangkok, there's a place on the ring road between Ramkhamhaeng and Fashion Island that looks to have pre-owned campers and camper trailers (caravans for the Brits).

All you'd need is a car with a big engine or a truck to pull the camper, you could leave your dogs in it at night while you and the missus enjoy the comforts of a hotel room with a lot less investment.

[Mr Earl]

Here ya go:

2015 Motor Home

Those look like mighty fine kits.

[pseudolus]

Here ya go:

2015 Motor Home

Seen them - Very small inside. Rather spend 2m on something more bespoke.

I don't want the responsibilty.

Nor did I - after all, divorce, and I'm not a nasty bastard.

where ya gonna park it when not in use?

In the drive?

I was thinking again, why don't you hire a "dog sitter?"

Finding one trustable / capable.

Here in Bangkok, there's a place on the ring road between Ramkhamhaeng and Fashion Island that looks to have pre-owned campers and camper trailers (caravans for the Brits).

Interesting. Any clue on a name or exactly here?

[Topper]

Interesting. Any clue on a name or exactly here?

I'll try and get the name/number the next time I'm by there.

[Mr Earl]

The much more practical and cheaper option is to use a big tent for your camping.

Would have to be pretty sturdy to prevent one of the dogs legging it......I explored this initially. Also the lack of aircon would piss me off. I'm not so concerned about the cash. But the very valid point of where I could go does concern me. Would park up anywhere, but thinking about it, Thailands not exactly set up for parking anywhere I guess.

You can stake the dogs under a tarp. For air con you can easily rig a fan off an inverter and second battery. How often are ya going camping anyhow? Simple and cheap is your answer amigo.

If ya really need aircon you're too pussy to go camping anyhow!

[pseudolus]

Interesting. Any clue on a name or exactly here?

I'll try and get the name/number the next time I'm by there.

Thanks CSFFan - would be much obliged.

[terry57]

That van will be humming like one of Terry's 600 baht long time motels in no time

Urm, I was up in Nakon Sawan last week, here is my 600 Baht hotel plus American Breakfast. PA House, google it up. Fookin ripper.

[pseudolus]

nice action Terry.

However, what the fook has that got to do with anything?

Nakhon Sawan- got Dengue there last time and we would use the van to go there and stay close to the in laws with no compunction for me to stay with them. Be in my own sheets, happy as larry, and able to drive away if needs be. Hell yes.

[thaimeme]

That van will be humming like one of Terry's 600 baht long time motels in no time

Urm, I was up in Nakon Sawan last week, here is my 600 Baht hotel plus American Breakfast. PA House, google it up. Fookin ripper.

Dogs would love this.....
Perhaps a separate room for them??

[Mr Earl]

American Breakfast.

American Breakfasts kinda suck, we should promote Scottish breakfast.IMHO

[Gravesend Dave]

What bread are these three big dogs Pseudo ?

Are they strays you took in ?

[pseudolus]

they are adopted from Hong Kongs death row shelter and brought here when I moved here.