Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:13:02 -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 agree with you. The woman is well-known for being difficult to deal
with though I have a lot of success with her in the past precisely
because I have stayed at her campground a number of times. There all
kinds of things they "care about" that no other campground in the
state does: you can't launch a kayak from their ramp if you didn't
arrive by kayak, they don't want me filling my westy tank from the
full service campground spigots.
Anyway, I have to work with her, so I don't make too big a fuss about
it. I just wonder, because so much of my work involves her park from
time to time, if I'm not getting the "good treatment" compared to
others.
And I agree with you fully on the point "who cares how I sleep?"
Someone mentioned that they may have a problem with the homeless
overstaying, etc. This camp ground, because it is so primitive, is
half the price of anything else around, which are all packed door to
door. It's a great campground, very historic, but with a weird
operator who runs things differently from anywhere else in the state.
Jim
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Matt Thyer <matt_thyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I read this and about jumped through my own rear end. Jim, thanks for the warning I hope to never camp at the State Park in question.
>
> :: begin rant ::
>
> Why does it matter at all? Seriously, why would the park director or anyone else on the face of the planet worry about how you or anyone else is sleeping in whatever they chose to sleep in, near, under, or on? What if I showed up to that campground and decided the night was clear and I didn't want to sleep in anything at all? Is there a rule for that, must I sleep inside something or be tossed out on my ear?
>
> I suppose someone could make the argument that some vehicles take up more space. If that's the case charge me based on the size of the vehicle I intend to park in our camping area. Otherwise, where and how I sleep is not anyone else's business.
>
> :: end rant ::
>
> Now back to dealing with fuel pump issues.
>
> Matt Thyer
> https://zenoswagen.wordpress.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>> 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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