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Subject:Re: Is it a car or a camper?
From:Rob
Date:Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:15:46 -0800

What state are we talking about?

Rob
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At  1/20/2010 09:05 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>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