Interesting story.

I never had a problem at any campgrounds. I usually tell the people
running the state/federal/private campsite that I would like a tent
site where I can park that (pointing to my Westy). I tell them that's
my tent on wheels and I just need a place that's  shady and quiet.
That usually relaxes them, but the look on their face betrays their
effort to classify me into one of two categories, spoon or fork. Well,
my registration says "Vanagon Campmobile", so that makes me a spork.
That's the price of being unique.

2010/1/20, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>:
> 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
>

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