Date:         Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:21:11 -0700
Reply-To:     VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons and RVs
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From my experience, RV'ers tend to use their RVs as free hotels.  They park
at the RV park or campground, and then take their tow vehicle for touring.

Nothing wrong with it, that's what RV parks are for.  It's just annoying
when you get those same RV'ers at a campground without hookups and you have
to listen to their generators all evening long.

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Vanagons and RVs


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


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