Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:43:53 -0400
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: What's that?
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Oh, my sister travels with her husband. The RV parks are just what they
like. A view of Denali from 40 miles away is their idea of adventure.
And shuffleboard when the weather allows. Safety? Well, my wife would
not likely go to the places I do alone, but she'd be safer there than in
the urban jungle that most of us frequent. Required vanagon content:
We use the camper to get away, actually away. We don't take a computer,
and I took out the cable hookup that the previous owner had put in. But
that's us. Others can do differently. Dave
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM , Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> On 9/25/2009 4:50 PM Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>> I have a sister who is majorly into RVing, as in traveling for weeks
>> and weeks in her (barely) portable (big) house. She's never been to
>> an
>> actual campground, needless to mention a primitive spot. She takes
>> her
>> little dog, and cooks pot roast, and watches TV...
>
> A-yup. I've a sister-in-law who does the same. She ties up her Class C
> in
> mobile home parks and Kampgrounds where there are many upper
> middle-class
> RVs, well-tended grass, a laundry room, a small store, a gatekeeper,
> etc.
>
> I think that women alone feel safer in places where a man might find
> confining (I'm Gaussian curving here). It's taken me a long time to
> tune
> into how insecure -- and certainly not without reason* -- the
> unaccompanied woman feels. Mrs Squirrel feels unsafe sleeping alone in
> the
> house at night.
>
> Just because I will pick up whatever instrument of destruction is
> close to
> hand** and wander downstairs to find out what "that noise" was doesn't
> mean she's any safer. Her faith in me as her big, strong protector is,
> I
> assure you, entirely misplaced.
>
> BUT BACK TO VANAGON CONTENT. Wait -- there isn't any.
>
> How about hearing from some women (Joy?) who travel alone? How spooky
> is
> that for you?
>
> ===========
> * Didn't a young woman traveling alone in a Vanagon run into something
> horrible at a rest stop just a few years ago?
>
> ** Recently it was a toilet plunger. I am amazed that she still finds
> having me around reassuring even after witnessing that clownery. Like,
> what was I going to do? Smother an intruder? Women. Go figure.
>
> N.B. I am striving for gerry.vanagon.com's "David Foster Wallace
> memorial
> footnotes derby" award for 2009. Won't someone please nominate me?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
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