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Subject:Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
From:Don Hanson
Date:Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:58:30 -0700

Yeah, "camping" in a Westie....that's really what is called "car-camping"
.  When you pull your vehicle right up to a picnic table and live out of
it...that is "car camping".

 If you spend most of your time inside, in your air conditioning, I'd say
you aren't camping anymore, you are "RV-ing"  I'd be really put off if some
Westie spied us in a formal campground and "camped" next door (because we
are Vanagon folks, too) and then they fired up a generator to run their air
conditioner and watch videos and run the microwave...etc etc.

  I don't really get the point of driving to some semi-remote "campsite"
only to spend the whole time "indoors"...especially indoors in a
Vanagon..You may as well stay home indoors or bring a "real" RV, one with a
couple of pop-out rooms and some TVs and stuff..

  Doesn't the majority of humanity do ok without AC?

Don Hanson

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:14 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:

> I've known tent campers and backpackers who would say the same of a Westy.
> To each his own.
>
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> Jeff Stewart
>
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> ----- "Greg Potts" <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA> wrote:
> > Hi Volks,
> >
> > It's just my opinion, but if you have air conditioning, I don't think
> > you are camping any longer.
> >
> >
> > Happy Trails,
> >
> > Greg Potts
> > Toronto, Ontario Canada
> > 197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
> > 1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
> > www.pottsfamily.ca
> >
> > BUSES OF THE CORN - AUGUST 13-15th, 2010
> > www.pottsfamily.ca\busesofthecorn
> >
>