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Subject:Re: What's that?
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:45:31 -0400

All the below.  If there is someone to hassle me (or who has the
responsibility to hassle people), I don't want to be there.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:05 PM , Joy Hecht wrote:

> What does "actual camping" mean?  No hookups?  Not in an urban area?
> Sleeping in a tent?  Out in the boondocks?  In a place where you can
> be
> visible in your van and not worry about being hassled?
>
> Just wondering!
>
> When full-timing, access to the world is very useful - for me that
> means
> email, for others TV or electric or showers or whatever.  But when
> full-timing there is no "I could stay home and do that" because I AM
> home.
>
>
> Joy
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Dave Mcneely  wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>