Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:49:39 -0800
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: NVC (well,
slightly VC): Questions about buying used generator/invertor
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> ---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> > You're hardly having a "wilderness experience" if you are camped
> anywhere near to another camper.
> >
> > Your not even having a wilderness experience if you are driving to your
> campsite.
> >
> > an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.
> > synonyms: wilds, wastes, uninhabited region, inhospitable region,
> uncultivated region.
>
> but one can have a very pleasant, near to nature and perhaps
> semi-wilderness experience, unless someone addicted to the "comforts" of
> home has brought them along and chosen to be near to you. I have been in
> undeveloped NF sites (no defined camping development), chosen my place
> carefully to be by my lonesome, and had a generator toting, fireworks
> shooting character plunk down next to me. Meanwhile, said character has
> left suitable places unoccupied. I once asked one such person, "why?" The
> response, "We don't like to be too far from others when we camp." We
> pulled up stakes and found a better location. I guess the distance I left
> between us was too much, maybe unbearable. Too bad.
>
> mcneely
>
A very common attitude, the "herd-instinct"? I suppose this 'camp
close' behavior, especially when the late comers bring along a generator,
that might be reason to have a Syncro...Then you can climb up some dune or
get clear back across an impassible clear-cut to attempt to preclude most
other group-type campers from cozying up to you.
One thing you can do is have an inconspicuous color on your vanagon,
something that doesn't draw the eye as people pass by looking for a
campsite..."Hey Honey, Lookie there, that guy's got a good spot. Let's go
there!"
We've had half a dozen motorhomes get stuck in soft sand when trying to
set up near us in the desert, They should have stuck to paths that were
more suited to their weight, but they see us semi-removed from the firmer
ground major paths and blunder ahead towards us..... till they sink... I
guess that might be OUR fault...an 'attractive nuisance? ' We had some
campers once drive up to our camp on a 2 mile long primitive beach in
Baja...no one else anywhere around. The guy got out and tossed out a tent,
then asked...."Hey, can I just tie this onto your tailgate?"...
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