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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:17 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Is it a car or a camper?
Comments: To: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
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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 > > >> 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: >> >> 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." >> >> 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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