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Date:         Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:02:10 +0000
Reply-To:     "A. Kimmons" <akimmons@PDQ.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "A. Kimmons" <akimmons@PDQ.NET>
Subject:      Re: Using a generator with a Vanagon
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Naw...wait justa minute there cowboy! Texas has a great many fine camping places. I'd tell ya where they are, but I kinda like the quiet, in the shade, by the river, under that big pecan tree with the rope swing.

Davidson wrote:

> I though camping was for going to nice places.... > That leaves out Texas! :) > Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: frank n. furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 8:23 AM > Subject: Re: Using a generator with a Vanagon > > >> > I use the Honda EX-650,<snip> > >>>those > >> > more granola, tent-camping types you may find > >> yourself mingling with. This > >> > > >> > > > >> It has nothing to do with being a 'graonla type.' > >> Why should anyone be happy > >> about hearing somebody elses generator while > >> camping...you get no benefit from > >> it and you went camping to get away from such > >> garbage. I suppose we should > >> have to listen to blaring stereos, too. What joy! > >> What arrogance! > >> > > > >Granola > > > >seriously tho, Have you ever tried camping in Texas > >during the summer? I seriously doubt it, or you > >wouldn't be questioning the "value" of a generator > >powered A/C system. I would give my spleen to have a > >big A/C setup in my van - down here I mothball my > >camper in the summer, and enjoy the great outdoors all > >winter long (when it is only in the 80;s). > > > >You haven't lived until you are soaked with sweat from > >the effort of walking 10 feet to your car at 6am. > > > >The only times I have ever "camped" in Texas (not > >voluntarily, usually sleeping on the front of an M1 > >tank) during the summer, I would wake up laying in a > >little lake of sweat. Kinda sucks the fun out of it > >when you don't stop sweating the entire time you are > >out there. > > > >Happy trails from Houston > > > >=== > >Mark > > > >87 Westfalia Gl > >84 Scirocco 8v > > > >http://members.tripod.com/~jehanno > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >


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