Date:         Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:07:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: camping spots at 9:00 PM
Comments: To: Nathaniel Poole <myth.wright@GMAIL.COM>
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Good question. If we want to keep out the bums and lowlifes, but let
those who are "choosing an alternative, low consumerist lifestyle," we'd
need a test. I reckon the great state o' California selected the
willingness and ability to pay to stay in places where they have placed
toilets and trash cans so the rest of the place doesn't turn into a big
dump as the test.

Besides, I bet that 99% of folks that most of us would consider bums
would describe themselves as someone who has chosen "an alternative, low
consumerist lifestyle."

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



Nathaniel Poole typed:
> "If Big Sur and California's coast was unregulated
> it would be overun with bums."
>
> LIke weird Canadians in a zebra westy? I'm sure a cop would love to
> give us the bum's rush as "undesireables" :)
>
> Man, I would love to be a bum. I hear the working hours are great.
>
> But I am curious - what's the difference between a bum, a low-life, a
> generally undesireable, and someone simply choosing an alternative,
> low consumerist lifestyle? I thought a lot of westy/vw owners fit that
> description. Frankly, I can't understand what the fear is of people
> sleeping in tents and RVs and buses along an unpopulated stretch of
> scenic highway. One sign explicitly stated "No sleeping in vehicles"
> along some of the pull outs.
>
>
> Nathaniel
>