I can't go camping (in the summer) without A/C, unless I decide to
nair my entire body. lol
Sudhir

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:38, Peter T. Owsianowski
<pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark:  I'ts just opinions and friendly discussions, Mark.  Everybody
> does things like camping a little differently and it's fun to voice
> your opinion and see how others do it - not passing judgement on
> anyone.
>
> On 6/9/10, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>> 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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