Date:         Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:35:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Vanagons and RVs
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Someone asked about the large complex RVs people seem to favor now, "Thats Camping?"  No, there is a whole new class of recreation called "RVing". It is different from camping.   I've met lots of them during my travels, "RVers" and they often be the first to tell you they aren't camping, they are RVing.
  Now we VW people, we still think we are camping, we even call our vehicles "campers" and we seem to have a bit differnt "take" on what a trip out of town should be about than the RVers do. 

 It is a shame that we sometimes must co-habitate with RVers who haven't quite got it that they ARE RVers, not campers.  When an RV gets "lost" and ends up out it's element, the RVers inside, they don't really know it,  or they don't really care, they just turn up the TV.  Inside there, they have no idea what kind of impact they have on their surroundings, because they are "RVing" and that is being inside their RV,  going to 'interesting places' and meeting 'other RVers' etc etc.

  That is one reason why the stealthy brown colored van is useful...No RVers will see you and say..."Hey, someone is parked out there, let's go set up next to him" which they often do, if they see you.  Especially in out of the way places...Must be the "Herd instinct" or something...  

  Maybe we could get Go Westy or someone to build us some "Inflatable Winniebago" balloons that we could stake down like decoys, a decent distance from our real 'campsite'  and get all the lonely Winniebagos to "land" nearby the decoy 'Bago, thereby leaving you in solitude in your turd brown "camper".. ...I always take earplugs along to RV country, just in case...

  Don Hanson