To tow or not

As David has said, perhaps you need to try both.  For us, in our 70’s, we like the freedom, and experiences we can have by going many different places and, at the same time, enjoy our own home comforts.  We have been to large parts of the UK and abroad.  No hotel restrictions or, in this particular time, Covid worries.  We have a large caravan and a large car to pull it so towing doesn’t bother us, even in the gale force gusts near Whitby today!!  I even rather enjoy towing - there is so much more to think about than when just driving a car, strangely it makes the journey more interesting.  A static ‘van doesn’t appeal to us, but everyone will have a different viewpoint. 

We actually had the best of both Worlds for around seven years. We found ourselves up and down between Cornwall and Yorkshire at least four/five times per year, but didn’t particularly enjoy towing back and forth. So we kept our small little tourer for touring, and bought something a little bit larger and kept it with permission on a lovely little Site near Marazion. I have to add that both outfits were/ are second hand, and we never stressed about leaving the one in Cornwall. It really worked for us. We got to stay in our favourite place every time we fancied, with a quick easy drive down. But still got to tour other places as well. Only ended when I had to care for my parents. 

Perhaps it could be said that if you do not tow then you will miss out!

Think of all those thousands of sites (Club and Cls.) up and down the country that you will never see.

I have just returned home from two sites that coincidentally both had Alpacas. One farmed for their wool the other roaming around the site along with chickens, dog and other animals.

Others provide geese, ducks and fishing if that is what you need.

Tour whilst you can and then do not regret the onset of old age and impaired abilities.

Good luck.

We tow... and find it great to be able to visit different places.  Out of season, we tend to do 3 or 4 nights every so often.  During the summer months we tend to go away for around 6 weeks - this year we stayed on 5 different sites in the summer - one site we stayed on for 2 weeks (in Cornwall), with shorter stays on 2 sites on the way down, and 2 sitesxon the way back up...  We haven't taken the caravan across to Europe for 5 years now, but hope we will get back there soon...

David

I wonder what sort of replies you might get posing the same question on the forum of "The Static Caravan Club"?