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Subject:Re: Using a generator with a Vanagon
From:Steve
Date:Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:46:11 -0800

Gee...hadn't thought of that....can't i still vent my
righteous indignation about something!

"frank n. furter" wrote:

> > >  I use the Honda EX-650,<snip>
> >>those
> > > more granola, tent-camping types you may find
> > yourself mingling with. This
> > >
> >
>
> > It has nothing to do with being a 'graonla type.'
> > Why should anyone be happy
> > about hearing somebody elses generator while
> > camping...you get no benefit from
> > it and  you went camping to get away from such
> > garbage.  I suppose we should
> > have to listen to blaring stereos, too.  What joy!
> > What arrogance!
> >
>
> Granola
>
> seriously tho, Have you ever tried camping in Texas
> during the summer?  I seriously doubt it, or you
> wouldn't be questioning the "value" of a generator
> powered A/C system.  I would give my spleen to have a
> big A/C setup in my van - down here I mothball my
> camper in the summer, and enjoy the great outdoors all
> winter long (when it is only in the 80;s).
>
> You haven't lived until you are soaked with sweat from
> the effort of walking 10 feet to your car at 6am.
>
> The only times I have ever "camped" in Texas (not
> voluntarily, usually sleeping on the front of an M1
> tank) during the summer, I would wake up laying in a
> little lake of sweat.  Kinda sucks the fun out of it
> when you don't stop sweating the entire time you are
> out there.
>
> Happy trails from Houston
>
> ===
> Mark
>
> 87 Westfalia Gl
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