John and Sharon Powell of Delavan also prefer a travel trailer. We are just waiting to retire so that we can do more camping. Every year, the Powells start camping even before the snow melts. They continue late into the fall, several months after most people have put away their camping rigs for the season. And it's a lot more quiet.
Campgrounds increasingly feature campsite telephone connections and dial-up Internet access.
But that's not an attraction for the Powells, who would rather sit around a campfire than chat with other campers on the Internet. Waukesha and Walworth counties have some of the most well-established recreation vehicle camping clubs in the state, according to Wisconsin Campers Association officials. Many people have started as tent campers and graduated to travel trailers or motor homes, the Fitzgeralds said. Then, we gradually worked our way up to the fifth-wheel travel trailer that's our home now. With motor homes, the living units are built on a bare, specially designed chassis.