A functional disconnect often arises when you take delivery of a RV or travel trailer you intend to take to music festivals or large campground gatherings. As the name suggests, the dinette was designed for dining. Yet, when we’re hosting friends at a music festival or campsite, we spend more time hanging out than dining in. So, how can you maximize “dinette” functionality?
We’ve seen a bunch of Facebook posts and pix on great ideas. They’ve included everything from one on Fun RV Stuff on pulling the seating and installing a couch or recliners, or cutting a new wood plank to serve as a narrow platform between the benches.
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Psychedelic rides are nothing new to the Grateful Dead or music festival scene. Whether VW microbuses or the original Further itself, bright rides are as common as trippy tunes. But Sugaree, a converted GMC school bus, puts a vivid new spin on the music festival RV / tour bus. Dad David McQuaid calls it their “schoolie conversion into our psychedelic hippie bus.”
RV owners like to invite family and friends to join them on their journeys. Then they plop their guests in a converted dinette or the sofabed and say, “G’night.” Come morning, their slumber is invaded with light and the patter of passersby. Privacy? What a quaint notion.