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Date:         Wed, 9 Jun 2010 19:31:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <4C0FBECD.3090503@cox.net>
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very well said mark.. i like your points and camping in a van is a luxury ;) On 9-Jun-10, at 9:18 AM, mark drillock wrote:

> Why do so many here seem to think that how they live and do things is > the only ideal and anything different is verging on evil? > > The "majority of humanity" does without a lot of things you have, is > that really the standard you wish applied to yourself or only to those > you deem your lessers at camp? > > Camping in a Vanagon of any sort is far above where I and many others > started out. A knapsack and blanket was all I needed 40 years ago > when I > was 16. I later moved on in stages to bike camping, motorcycle > camping, > car camping, and now van camping. At what point did I go wrong? How > do I > reverse the effects of aging so I can sleep on the bare ground again? > > I have seen people be happy with almost nothing at camp, as well as > others that were content with far more than I would even want. The > point > is to go places and do things with a smile in your heart. Build a wall > of smug superiority around your heart instead if you must but please > leave it off the Vanagon list as we are a diverse bunch with varying > ways of doing things, evolving at our own pace. > > Mark > > Don Hanson wrote: >> Yeah, "camping" in a Westie....that's really what is called "car- >> camping" >> . When you pull your vehicle right up to a picnic table and live >> out of >> it...that is "car camping". >> >> If you spend most of your time inside, in your air conditioning, >> I'd say >> you aren't camping anymore, you are "RV-ing" I'd be really put off >> if some >> Westie spied us in a formal campground and "camped" next door >> (because we >> are Vanagon folks, too) and then they fired up a generator to run >> their air >> conditioner and watch videos and run the microwave...etc etc. >> >> I don't really get the point of driving to some semi-remote >> "campsite" >> only to spend the whole time "indoors"...especially indoors in a >> Vanagon..You may as well stay home indoors or bring a "real" RV, >> one with a >> couple of pop-out rooms and some TVs and stuff.. >> >> Doesn't the majority of humanity do ok without AC? >> >> Don Hanson >> >> >>


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