Saw that on the Westfalia forum on Samba.  Seems most people are into
well appointed campgrounds big time.  If I go to a campground, I prefer
the places without showers and without hookups.  Keeps the rifraf away
:-) .  I do use my camper for cross country travel, but when I do, I try
to get away from the highway to somewhere I can enjoy even if the stop
is only for overnight.   -- so I budget the time for it.  Dave

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:10 PM , Karl Wolz wrote:

> Someone ought to put together a poll asking about how we use our
> Westies.
> Seems each of us has his own definition of "camping".
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Dave Mcneely
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:50 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: What's that?
>
> Yeah, I realize that there are lots of folks with lots of ways of
> using
> their campers.  I just tend to think of it as a camper, and that's
> what
> I do with it.  If I go to LA or SF, or other metropolitan area (I do
> occasionally), I either stay with friends/family, or in a hotel.  If I
> use my camper, I'm camping.  Actual camping.  I have a sister who is
> majorly into RVing, as in traveling for weeks and weeks in her
> (barely)
> portable (big) house.  She's never been to an actual campground,
> needless to mention a primitive spot.  She takes her little dog, and
> cooks pot roast, and watches TV, and if she couldn't check her email
> every night, she'd be lost.  Oh well.  For me, why not stay home?  I
> use
> my camper to get to the edge of the back and beyond.  Dave Mc
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM , Old Volks Home wrote:
>
>> When I'm on my cross-country jaunts to Tennessee for Circle Yer
>> Wagens
>> in
>> the spring, I usually stay at a Good Sam Park (discount's nice with
>> their
>> card).  Usually great toilet/washroom/show facilities with hookups
>> and
>> water
>> if I want (usually just the electrics) and of course Wi-Fi.  When
>> blasting
>> to a destination each day, a nice shower hits the spot for me.  While
>> most
>> Class A rig operators and their wives tend to stick close to their
>> rigs, I
>> find that most of them venture out to chew the fat when I park in
>> their
>> area.  Darn right friendly, many often remark they use to drive/camp
>> around
>> in VW Westy in their former days, some of 'em actually miss it.  A
>> Westy
>> seems to attract attention almost wherever I camp in the these
>> places.
>>
>> I do stay at the occasional Walmart lot (Gallup's real nice) and
>> there
>> has
>> been the occasional driveway and if I'm near Stillwater, OK, I have
>> the
>> luxury of staying in a REAL bed for the night at Bill Keating's
>> place.
>> Now
>> that Larry & Maggie are just north of there in Ponca City, OK, I'll
>> have
>> another great possible stopping place for the night.
>>
>> Being on the left coast, there's plenty of "boondocking" choices
>> along
>> the
>> coast highway that can be just as nice and there's nothing wrong with
>> that
>> if yer into that sorta thing (I do it about 30% of the time myself).
>>
>> Metro areas such as the greater Los Angeles area and the Bay Area
>> tend
>> to
>> have a lot more stringent rules regarding overnighters, mainly
>> foisted
>> upon
>> them by the local government, not the park operator to keep what the
>> local
>> govt considers "riff-raff" out of these parks.  Unfortunately this is
>> the
>> result of bad experiences of VW Camper and other "van camper" people
>> of the
>> past generation(s) - most often they associate this crowd as
>> "rainbow",
>> "deadheads", etc., which is unfair to be grouped in with.  The VW
>> Camper
>> person(s) of today are an entirely different type of people
>> IMHO....y'know,
>> the type that wonder about "goopy" things on a stove's heat shield
>> and
>> what/how to solve "Vanagon Syndrome"......
>>
>> Then there are those like myself that have been full-time living in
>> their
>> Westys.  I 'm more into stealth camping/living these days and have
>> been for
>> over 10 years now.
>> --
>> Jim Thompson
>> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>> ***********************************
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Rocket J Squirrel