Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:07:24 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Is it a car or a camper?
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I'll bet you're right. Plus, this campground is very close to the
coast, on a bay, and that may be a compounding problem with folks
seeking warmer weather as winter comes on.
Jim
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:59 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
> My guess would be that it has to do with foreclosures and folks finding themselves homeless and sleeping in their cars. I remember reading sometime ago where campgrounds were having trouble with (homeless) folks trying to stay past the limit. Jeff
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> ----- "Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
>> Yes, I'd like to know what state, too. And for goodness sake, what is
>> wrong with someone sleeping in a car, if that's what (s)he wants to do?
>> I've done it many times, even in a Toyota Corolla. Who did it harm,
>> other than my spinal column and hips, which straightened out eventually?
>> David Mc
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Gary Bawden wrote:
>> > Jim, what state are we talking about here? Inquiring minds who camp in
>> > non-Westies want to know!
>> >
>> > Gary
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>> >> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:40 -0600
>> >> From: Jim Felder Subject: Is it a car or a camper?
>> >>
>> >> I didn't want to totally hijack a related "campmobile" thread but I
>> >> just have to mention this:
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>> >> I recently stayed in a state park where the young guy at the gate
>> >> asked if I had a cloth tent pitch on the site to "get around the new
>> >> rules."
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>> >> I asked what the new rules were and was told that you can't sleep in
>> >> your car! The new rules say that you have to pitch a tent to sleep in
>> >> if you are not in a camper. I told the guy that my camper was every
>> >> bit as much a camper as the big rigs down on the other end, that my
>> >> camper came from the factory with the express purpose of being a
>> >> camper. He said that "things had gotten kinda crazy around there in
>> >> order to keep people from sleeping in their cars."
>> >>
>> >> I didn't get bothered about it, but the park director (who I had a
>> >> meeting with the next day) asked if I was the person who had slept in
>> >> his car last night. I replied that I slept in my camper, which was
>> >> equipped for camping, and she dropped it.
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
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