Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:58:23 -0600
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: The power we really need!
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On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> When I was a kid, backpacking was "real" camping and I turned my
> nose up
> at RVs and the campgrounds they camped in. Now that I are older, I
> greatly enjoy our little Westy, which someone recently called a "tree
> house on wheels," and someone else dubbed a modern covered wagon. I
> see
> myself creeping closer to being exactly that at which I sneered. I
> cringe -- cringe! -- at the idea that I, too, might find myself
> sitting
> on a 200 square foot piece of Astroturf beneath a 20' Fiamma
> attached to
> a 40-foot Hoover dam of an RV. Add a generator, a yappy dog, and an
> invisible woman* and you might as well shoot me. But 20 years from
> now...who knows?
Amen!
>
> ------
> * "Invisible women," is the title of an article I've not yet written
> about the older guys I've met at campgrounds who claim to be there
> with
> wives who are never seen. These women apparently live entirely in the
> RVs, never setting foot outside.
Hmmmmm? Not touching that 1, but you forgot to mention the TV set w/
satellite dish on in the pull out living room, the Jeep Cherokee w/
front cover towed behind the "home" for quick trips to the store, &
what more do you need to go "camping"?
I think that camping & RVing are 2 separate sports, & the older you
get, the harder it becomes to sleep on the ground, get up to pee in
the night, eat that jalapeno mole w/ extra onions on the side & drink
that cheap beer & still get back to work the next day?
Tom B.-better to think you are "camping" than to not go at all?
> --
> 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
>
>
>
> Dennis Haynes typed:
>> My 2nd battery was installed so I could run the stereo and lights
>> without
>> worry of running down the main battery. Low cost and it has been
>> effective. I see the Westy as a multipurpose vehicle with a tent
>> attachment on top. Tent camping without the need to carry a
>> separate one.
>> For many years I made fun of many RVers including my parents. After
>> getting my first one back in '97, I realized that the Westy has
>> its limits
>> and you can get just plain silly trying to make it something it
>> isn't.
>> Unfortunately I got the RV bug bad and upgraded twice to the
>> monster I
>> have now. Super silly in the other extreme. But in many ways it
>> does not
>> replace the Westy so the Westy stays in the family for those times
>> I don't
>> need the size or the toys and want to just get some solitude camping.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
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