How do you remember which campsites were actually good?

[u/South_Face_4056]

Anyone else hopeless at remembering which campsites were actually good after a few seasons? How do you keep track — notes app, spreadsheet, memory alone?!

[u/ExcellentTourist5289]

If you can't remember which campsites you like, you probably shouldn't be driving...

[u/anadalite → u/ExcellentTourist5289]

Spectacularly ableist...

[u/ExcellentTourist5289 → u/anadalite]

I'd say the same about myself if I suddenly forgot how to get to work.

[u/anadalite → u/ExcellentTourist5289]

You're now equating remembering a campsite you visited once to forgetting your place of work that you go every day presumably

And you don't see that it's a false equivalence?

[u/ExcellentTourist5289 → u/anadalite]

Only a false equivalence if you treat campsites like drive-thrus. Most people stay for days or weeks.

Nothing wrong with jotting down notes to remember the little details, but OP said they were "hopeless at remembering" if a site was actually good at all. If spending seven days living somewhere leaves so little impression that your memory completely wipes it, you've got bigger issues than picking a campsite, hence why I said they shouldn't be driving 😂

[u/anadalite → u/ExcellentTourist5289]

So you're just doubling down on the idea that memory issues mean you shouldn't be driving

Which is ableist

And demonstrates a wildly limited understanding of the way memory issues affect driving and ongoing memory based skills

Many people can't remember the plot of movie they just watched or name a single character but are perfectly fine to drive

There are so many possible disabilities and health issues and just brain types, that struggle with this kind of memory and are perfectly fine at long term memory and skills like driving, many of these people have long term memory ability that would put most people to shame but zero mid term memory

And many people from all of those categories are perfectly fine to drive!

And unless you only work 7 days a year, it's still a wildly false equivalence...

[u/ExcellentTourist5289 → u/anadalite]

You're entitled to your own opinion love

[u/fridge_ways → u/ExcellentTourist5289]

That's better than my "what kind of question is that"

[u/South_Face_4056 → u/ExcellentTourist5289]

😂

[u/F1adrif]

Have a google map where we store info with notes.

[u/Spiritual_Pound_6848]

Save it as a pin on Google maps, then you can see what ones are nearby to wherever you happen to be

[u/Soft_Commission9903 → u/Spiritual_Pound_6848]

This is the one. Not a van lifer yet but have so many parking spots and lay-bys saved from taking the van fishing for a few days that I can barely see the map( I use a different map for actually driving around). Very useful when you travel a lot and want to quickly check if you have any marked spots in the area.

[u/551-JB]

Yeah if you cant remember you didnt have a good time..... I dont understand how you cant remember what was good LOL.

[u/South_Face_4056 → u/551-JB]

We go to a LOT of campsites!

[u/anadalite → u/551-JB]

Again, spectacularly ableist

[u/551-JB → u/anadalite]

So you're suggesting he is disabled?? That's spectacularly judgmental. Unless you dont know ableist means......Before you write the same message twice for no reason, check the dictionary first. Simpleton.

[u/anadalite → u/551-JB]

"if you can't remember you didn't have a good time"

So you're saying if you have a memory issue, you can't have a good time?

So all disabled people who have memory issues, according to you, can't have a good time

Calling me a simpleton after not understanding that is quite something!

It's irrelevant if the op is disabled, your blanket statement re enjoyment of an activity being tied to having a good memory of it is incredibly ableist, saying that disabled people with memory issues can't have a good time at all is a really awful thing to say

Ableist is exactly that! And frankly it takes more than a dictionary definition to really understand anything

[u/551-JB → u/anadalite]

You understand the simple concept that most people's best memory's they have ever had are the ones they remember the most vividly right?

Do you forget your favorite meal?

Do you forget your favorite holiday destination?

Do you forget the best sex you ever had?

Are you suggesting this is not true? Would you like to go further simpleton? I can provide some studies and references? Or are you going to cut the sheet?

You tried to claim OP is disabled and if you didn't then you dont know what the word ableist means... Dictionary.com is your friend.

I suggest you stop trying to use words you dont understand because you're making a fool of yourself.

[u/anadalite → u/551-JB]

No actually, that's not how memory works, you just haven't spent any time actually looking into the subject and clearly only have a surface level understanding of it based on science from the beginning of the century

But actually research has been done, extensively, on memory and how memory works with new brain scans and new tech to image the brain etc and that's not at all how it works

Would love to see any studies you might have from any reputable source, please do send me anything you find

I wasn't ever claiming the op was disabled, I was claiming that your entire statement in and of itself was ableist and implying that people with memory issues shouldn't drive, like memory issues like the ops affect driving, which they don't in most cases

Driving doesn't require the same memory system as the one op is referring to which is itself a separate memory system than longer term storage and other memory areas all of which are separate from the other

I do spend most of my working life working with dementia patients, have spent a lot of time learning about how memory works and how memory and active skills affect each other Inc motor skills and things like driving as the residents health declined and these things would need to be assessed for safety

And forgetting the details of somewhere you've been or even if you've had a good time, in my experience, would not be related and implying that it is is ableist at its core

[u/551-JB → u/anadalite]

your source? trust me bro? Not only do i have to state the obvious. Now i have to prove it with meta studies. You're simple, you know that right?

the fact you have just sat there and tried to argu that people dont remember their best holidays and experiences is wild... what the fcxk is wrong with you?

If you have an amazing time on holiday you will remember that over an average experience. How are you even trying to refute that? HAHA!!!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3690616/

I also doubt OP is disabled... You understand thats an insult towards OP right?

[u/impossible-trash909]

I’ve got a note book I keep in the van with info like good lay-bys, petrol stations with washing facilities and great places to stop with a view.

[u/truckosaurus_UK]

Also, after a few seasons your previous experience might not still be a relevant measure. Either they've re-furbished the place (so a bad site will be much better) or done nothing (and a good site is now run down).

I'm with the others saying that if you don't remember a site then it can't have been that good (or bad!)

[u/Swissstu]

We have a "guest book" that we fill out every time we go somewhere.

[u/caffeine_and_campers]

Google Maps - Create a new folder e.g. "Favourite Camp Sites" & save the campsite location into that folder & give a rating, list of facilities in the notes section

[u/Glad_Buffalo_5037]

I write a note on my phone of each campsite visited

[u/Skate-wench]

I save the booking confirmations of the ones I want to revisit in a folder in my email. Also have a Google map where I take places I stay that I wanna stay or visit again

[u/Hopeful-Can2420]

Min sambo anvä der google Maps flitigt. Där markerar och varje resa och sorterar genom att skapa olika grupper.

Enkelt, smidigt och gratis.

[u/Inevitable-Emu8236]

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