That's probably good advice.

Jim

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Stephen
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> --- On Wed, 1/20/10, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> David
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
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>> I didn't want to totally hijack a related "campmobile" thread but I
>> just have to mention this:
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>> 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."
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>> 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."
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>> 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
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