On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:

> Really now -- are we going camping -- out to enjoy nature -- or
> trying to take our living rooms to an RV park?  Please consider the
> consequences of our actions.  DMc

I've done both.  My wife and I were avid backpackers who sneered at
"car campers" and did not consider RVers at all.  Then I had a heart
attack.  And then another heart attack.  And then my wife had cancer
and ended up disabled.  So we stopped backpacking.  But we missed
backpacking and particularly camping.  So I bought an RV and we tried
"camping" in an RV.  If you stay away from "RV parks" and go to
smaller places - state parks, national forest, etc - it beats nothing,
but it isn't camping - more like cabining.

But, as someone pointed out, we spent most of our time inside of the
RV which sorta missed the point of camping.  Back when we backpacked
we drove our VW van, first a splitty then a loaf, to the trial head.
Soooo I bought a syncro and now we camp out of it.  Because of our
various health problems we don't deal with heat so well and I'm one of
those guys who has a "hillbilly" window a/c.  When it's really hot in
the day time we sleep a lot, read, watch movies, play cards, etc. from
inside our cool little box.  We always cook outside and spend the
evenings outside but we sleep in a/c comfort.  This means that we go
to places with hookups or we go to places so isolated that no one can
hear our honda generator.

I remain, as always
YrLyl&ObdntSrvnt,

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