I though camping was for going to nice places....
That leaves out Texas! :)
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: frank n. furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Using a generator with a Vanagon

>> >  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
>
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