Date:         Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:23:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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VERY WELL SAID ;)
On 9-Jun-10, at 6:58 AM, 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
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:14 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I've known tent campers and backpackers who would say the same of a
>> Westy.
>> To each his own.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Stewart
>>
>>
>> ----- "Greg Potts" <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA> wrote:
>>> Hi Volks,
>>>
>>> It's just my opinion, but if you have air conditioning, I don't
>>> think
>>> you are camping any longer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy Trails,
>>>
>>> Greg Potts
>>> Toronto, Ontario Canada
>>> 197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
>>> 1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
>>> www.pottsfamily.ca
>>>
>>> BUSES OF THE CORN - AUGUST 13-15th, 2010
>>> www.pottsfamily.ca\busesofthecorn
>>>
>>