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Former Mini Mart Magnate
I am just here for my amusement.
Or a towel change.....
Brown Whisky and a Bonfire with Lawn Chairs and a Grill.:grin
Don't miss the Tarp at all..
I could camp simple again...but why ?:huh
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
This is more like what my minimum is for camping
Do you think homeless people are offended by recreational campers? LOL
After a one-week trip to NC in that, and a couple pop-ups in between traveling all over Florida and the northeast, moved up to a new 30 foot travel trailer . . . and never looked back.
Something about age that stimulates the appreciation for plug-in water and sewage, and that great button that automatically levels the unit necessitating only rolling down the awning, bringing out a couple chairs and putting ice in a glass followed by the first adult beverage.
:wink
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
Funny.
I just meet a few being in retail in Gainesville. I also meant nothing political by it. I am amazed, when I talk to them, on how they live. One guy lives behind a storage shed in the corner of a commercial property. Has a tarp for cover and a folding cot as a bed. Some just camp in the woods. My second store is near the interstate and at least once a month we have to chase off a guy sleeping under the canopy when we come in. Met one guy who has a large family size tent set up in the woods with a mattress and generator. Most live in little groups of 4 to 6 for protection. I know one who has a membership to a $10 a month gym just for the shower access. 99% of them make money panhandling.
I have a few rules that they all know about my stores, do not loiter, do not ask customers for money on the property, don't drink on the property, and never steal from me. I will buy you a cup of coffee sometimes, but don't invite your friends, this ain't a charity. Follow those and they are welcome to shop and even stand around and chat a bit. I will let them loiter a little during bad weather as long as they are polite.
I have one who works for me doing clean up and stocking for about 10-12 hours a week. He refuses to work more then that. It was hard to get him to agree to that at first. He could get a real job, just doesn't want to. He gave up drinking except on Saturday nights.
Most are pretty cool people who made bad choices in life. A few are just a-holes who end up in jail.
One told me; "it ain't that bad, you get used to it. Just like camping all time". I told him there was no way I could ever get used to sleeping on the street and not bathing daily. But it is their choice on how they want to live for the most part.
Former Mini Mart Magnate
I am just here for my amusement.
I don't bathe daily, but I swim in the pool a lot.
Then you have the quiet ones who stand in the intersections to collect money for their alcohol/food. There's a commune of them under the bridge interchange in Charleston for 26/17. That's always fun to explain to a 7 year old about what they are doing. They even had a kiddie pool...
What's sad is then you have the people who actually have jobs and still panhandle for extra money.
That's Glamping....
Bought the A-liner in 2002.
Will never go back to the ground.
"Motel-6 on 2 Wheels" ... whenever we need it.
Otherwise, we "camp" with a pool, cable, and breakfast buffet.
Yep. My current wife considers "roughing it" to mean a 4-star hotel.
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
I generally use an ultralight tent. Around 2 pounds. My overall back weight is less than 20 most trips these days. And that's with tent and comfy sleeping pad.
LOL "current wife" that sounds temporary
That reminds me of a guy I once worked with who said "oh, about every seven years or so I get in a mood to buy a woman a house".
tk
My friend calls his wife the favorite wife.
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Won't touch that line with a barge-pole.