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Date:         Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:41:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Camping (VW van involved)
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During a recent weekend road-trip (in the UPS Brown 84 vanagon) into our NW mountains, which tends to be rather an 'urban camping' experience, despite what most Northwesterners would like to think...We saw some odd-ball and kinda selfish behavior. Granted, weekends within a few hours of major urban centers like the I-5 NW Coastal Megalopolis, you don't expect to easily find perfect solitude and pristine wilderness, but man! It seemed like all the roadside trees had sprouted some new type of blossoms...Paperplates, nailed on everywhere, with directions, like "Beavis' camp>" or "Gump family reunion<".. Then too, right now is prime fire season and the forest is tinder dry! Large posted signs everywhere by the forest service..."No Campfires-no fires of any kind" etc..and many many informal groups of campers we saw? Sitting around the campfire...I guess if you only venture out of town one time per summer, you are gonna have that fire, no matter what, eh? Even though we were over a mile from the highway, up a little used logging track, the sound of the Harley gangs was not pleasant..Why do grownups find it so cool to get all dressed up in their outlaw costumes and join a hundred other look alikes on big stone-age motorcycles? And why do they all seem to remove the mufflers (and why do the police, who will spend hours trying to deny you a smog check on a VW allow a Harley to run around at 110db noise levels).. I guess when people move out of their 'normal' day to day routine, they somehow forget to bring along their brains, forget that just because they are doing something 'special' to them, it is not special enough to excuse poor citizenship.. I suppose I should simply accept paperplates and Harleys as part of the camping experience..hee hee. But I had to mention it.. Don Hanson


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