Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:35:32 -0700
Reply-To: Donna Skarloken <dskarloken@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Donna Skarloken <dskarloken@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What's that?
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I agree - very dense population in the SF Bay Area, and if it looks like
you're sleeping in your van in a parking lot or on the street you'll
probably get checked out by the local police sooner or later.
Also, sometimes it is just laziness/convenience on my part. I stayed at the
casino RV park one night as it was well over 100 degrees in Las Vegas when I
was there, and wanted convenient access to a shower. I met my parents the
next day and we headed out the Boulder highway; this casino was not on the
strip but on the Boulder highway and was a convenient place to meet.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes you gotta take what you can.
>
> As Steve points out in his OP, the SF Bay Area does not give you a lot of
> choice in the matter. Primitive/tent camping is fairly nonexistent. What
> "camping" there is is heavily impacted with high population density. I bet
> the parks have had some hideous messes to clean up.
>
> To many, there is not a lot of difference between a homeless man
> fulltiming in his Ford van, and that guy in his Westy. Without a built-in
> toilet, next thing you know you're cleaning toilet tissue out of the
> shrubbery.
>
> What they want are older couples with little yappy dogs in large RVs. Such
> folk are usually no trouble -- heck, you seldom see them venture out of
> their vessels once they've tied up.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 9/25/2009 2:56 PM Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
> Why would you want to stay at places that cater to RVs anyway? Might as
>> well stay in a parking lot (my opinion, fwiw).
>>
>> Dave Mc
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM , Steve Williams wrote:
>>
>> I've gotten a little resistance from RV parks in the San Francisco
>>> Bay Area to allowing my '84 Westy overnight. Several parks have
>>> asked, "Is that a self-contained RV?" What they mean is: Does it
>>> have a toilet? Even parks with showers have been hesitant to let me
>>> in.
>>>
>>> In the end, they have allowed me in, saying they'll break or bend the
>>> rules.
>>>
>>> I don't have much experience, but I assume this happens more often at
>>> RV parks that cater primarily to long-term mobile home tenants. In
>>> the Bay Area, it seems that's all there is. I haven't yet found a
>>> state park or RV-oriented park that's close to the peninsula or the
>>> east bay.
>>>
>>> Is this resistance common in other areas?
>>>
>>
>>
--
Donna
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