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Subject:Is it a car or a camper?
From:Jim Felder
Date:Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:40 -0600

I didn't want to totally hijack a related "campmobile" thread but I
just have to mention this:

I recently stayed in a state park where the young guy at the gate
asked if I had a cloth tent pitch on the site to "get around the new
rules."

I asked what the new rules were and was told that you can't sleep in
your car! The new rules say that you have to pitch a tent to sleep in
if you are not in a camper. I told the guy that my camper was every
bit as much a camper as the big rigs down on the other end, that my
camper came from the factory with the express purpose of being a
camper. He said that "things had gotten kinda crazy around there in
order to keep people from sleeping in their cars."

I didn't get bothered about it, but the park director (who I had a
meeting with the next day) asked if I was the person who had slept in
his car last night. I replied that I slept in my camper, which was
equipped for camping, and she dropped it.

Jim