Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:17:44 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Is it a car or a camper?
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But Jim, what state? For all I know it is Texas, but in Texas one has
to pay an entrance fee to the state park, then a campsite fee, and it
all adds up to a tidy sum. Are homeless folks doing that? I'd think
they are more into sleeping overnight in cars in out of the way places,
or city parks where there are no camp sites at all. Lots of folks sleep
in cars in Texas highway rest areas, btw. Can't figure out how anyone
is harmed in that situation, or in the campground for that matter.
So, wherever this is, if me and my buddies pull in, pay our fees, throw
up a tent for two of us, and two of us make do in the seats of a sedan,
we're in violation of something. Good grief.
David
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> 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 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- "Dave Mcneely" 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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