Jim, what state are we talking about here? Inquiring minds who camp in
non-Westies want to know!

Gary

> Date:    Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:40 -0600
> From:    Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Is it a car or a camper?
>
> 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
>