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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:32:43 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is it a car or a camper?
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:  <470680.68300.qm@web110605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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That's probably good advice.

Jim

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote: > Having encountered the same problem in describing my Westy setup I now tell anyone who is not obviously VW-centric that I am driving and sleeping in a Class B RV. > > Stephen > > --- On Wed, 1/20/10, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote: > > > From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> > Subject: Re: Is it a car or a camper? > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:31 PM > > > Hmmm ..... .  So, some of us have been forced to stay in a parking lot > with the RVs (or in other cases to pay an RV fee for a spot with hookups > though we wouldn't use them) when in our campers.  Now you have been > told that your camper is a car, and not suitable for camping.  Strange > people out there.  Glad it worked out. > > David > > > 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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