Having encountered the same problem in describing my Westy setup I now tell anyone who is not obviously VW-centric that I am driving and sleeping in a Class B RV.
�
Stephen

--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Is it a car or a camper?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:31 PM

Hmmm ..... .� So, some of us have been forced to stay in a parking lot
with the RVs (or in other cases to pay an RV fee for a spot with hookups
though we wouldn't use them) when in our campers.� Now you have been
told that your camper is a car, and not suitable for camping.� Strange
people out there.� Glad it worked out.

David

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:05 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