Why do so many here seem to think that how they live and do things is
the only ideal and anything different is verging on evil?

The "majority of humanity" does without a lot of things you have, is
that really the standard you wish applied to yourself or only to those
you deem your lessers at camp?

Camping in a Vanagon of any sort is far above where I and many others
started out. A knapsack and blanket was all I needed 40 years ago when I
was 16. I later moved on in stages to bike camping, motorcycle camping,
car camping, and now van camping. At what point did I go wrong? How do I
reverse the effects of aging so I can sleep on the bare ground again?

I have seen people be happy with almost nothing at camp, as well as
others that were content with far more than I would even want. The point
is to go places and do things with a smile in your heart. Build a wall
of smug superiority around your heart instead if you must but please
leave it off the Vanagon list as we are a diverse bunch with varying
ways of doing things, evolving at our own pace.

Mark

Don Hanson wrote:
>    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
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