Date:         Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:43:54 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Insane elevation of camping to a tea ceremony
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On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Stewart, Donna wrote:

> My mom has subscribed to the Trailer Life campground directory for
> years and I was surprised to notice that there are RV parks in AZ
> where your rig can only be a few years old or you can't stay there
> (let's us out).

Camping is maybe the latest of the universal, democratic, low-cost
activities to succumb to the propensity of excessive wealth to elevate
the mundane to the exclusive. When people get so much money that they
are buying RVs to get the second-home tax break, you can be sure that
there will soon be an inner circle that doesn't want to let anyone less
wealthy than them in. The discriminating factor can't be taste, as you
would know if you've seen the bling-bling interiors inside a lot of
these things.

Someone should start a westy-friendly campground registry for the
dwindling number of real humans who need them.

I guess next I'll be seeing the fashion police at the trailhead.
They've already #$%@#$%ed up the cycling and skiing communities.

Jim