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Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / July 200820-ways to annoy people in campgrounds
This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG http://ustravel.today.com/2008/07/28/annoy-everyone/ enjoy mike  SignaturePensacola, FL http://www.travellogs.us/ > This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG > > http://ustravel.today.com/2008/07/28/annoy-everyone/ > > enjoy > mike 14. Show off your “converted” 1950’s bus, carrying photos around and suggesting to campground staff that “this park really needs to have a bus section!” Never mind that the only conversions you’ve done are to tape black plastic bags over the windows and set a hot plate on one of the seats. NOT FUNNY!!! SignatureOl' Gar and Mahoney... Workin' on the Hot-Rod Bus.. under the bridge.. down by the river.. "Life may not be the party we had hoped for, but as long as we are here we might as well dance" [sign on I-35 in South Dakota?] http://coltonmotorexpress.blogspot.com/ >> This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > NOT FUNNY!!! WellDAM, Gar ... I was LMAO until I found that out! LOL Cliff in TN - never mind Gar ... Black Trashbags are the "In Thing" for Conversion this year ... Signaturethe Bride said to me, "We've been through a LOT together, and most of it was Your fault!" >> This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > NOT FUNNY!!! Geez! Lighten up. It made me smile thinking back to our deer hunting trips back in the '70s in a friend's old school bus. It had a gas stove for cooking. Bunks in the back and a rack on the roof for the dead deer. LZ >> This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >NOT FUNNY!!! What? Did you tape the hot plate down? Elliot Richmond Itinerant astronomy teacher >>> This is a pretty good list. I bet we can come up with more. VBG >>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >What? Did you tape the hot plate down? Gotta remember, his is the _upscale_ version. He's got hotplates on *two* of the seats. > 14. Show off your “converted” 1950’s bus, carrying photos around and > suggesting to campground staff that “this park really needs to have a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > NOT FUNNY!!! I thought it was HILARIOUS. But then. I wrote the danged thing. ;) Oh, but seriously-- I've seen someone do half the things in that list. The other half I've done myself! Thanks for spreading the link, Mike. Hope the post gave everyone a chuckle! Happy trails, all. --Stephanie (just visiting....) http://ustravel.today.com >> 14. Show off your converted 1950s bus, carrying photos around and >> suggesting to campground staff that this park really needs to have a [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >(just visiting....) >http://ustravel.today.com I like your blog. I've just spent 30 entertaining minutes wandering around in it, and bookmarked the rest. Thanks. Bob, who often dumps gray water in the woods at the end of a 50 foot hose. There's nothing in it but water and a little soap. >>> 14. Show off your “converted” 1950’s bus, carrying photos around and >>> suggesting to campground staff that “this park really needs to have a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Bob, who often dumps gray water in the woods at the end of a 50 > foot hose. There's nothing in it but water and a little soap. Probably exactly where I'd want to flatspot. And I'd have a muddy patio swarming with cast-off BG epithelials. Signaturebill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work. > I like your blog. I've just spent 30 entertaining minutes > wandering around in it, and bookmarked the rest. Thanks. > > Bob, who often dumps gray water in the woods at the end of a 50 > foot hose. There's nothing in it but water and a little soap. Thanks, Bob! Glad you like the blog! I'm sure you'd never dump the graywater in the middle of a crowded campground, though! :D Our graywater reeks to high heaven. It's probably because we're meat- eaters-- no matter how you try, some of the grease does go down that drain! --Stephanie http://ustravel.today.com >> I like your blog. I've just spent 30 entertaining minutes >> wandering around in it, and bookmarked the rest. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >--Stephanie >http://ustravel.today.com I've dumped mine on my front lawn. You can only smell it if you get on all fours, right where it comes out of the hose. And 30 minutes or an hour later the area is dry and you can't smell it at all, or tell where it was. Try it, you'll see what I mean. I think this particular annoyance is vastly overhyped. I have visited several official forest campgrounds where the camp host has a permanent gray water hose snaking out behind his site. There's just not that much grease or even water involved. Tenters make a bigger mess. But of course you wouldn't want to dump it right out into the campsite where somebody else is going to drive up. That would be concentration. But 30 minutes later, they'd never know it anyway. Bob >I've dumped mine on my front lawn. You can only smell it if you >get on all fours, right where it comes out of the hose. And 30 >minutes or an hour later the area is dry and you can't smell it >at all, or tell where it was. Try it, you'll see what I mean. I would welcome your gray water in my woods anytime. We're in a serious, long-term drought, and we'd be happy to take any water we can get. And even if we weren't in a drought, it'd still be okay.... GB in NC >>I've dumped mine on my front lawn. You can only smell it if you >>get on all fours, right where it comes out of the hose. And 30 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >GB in NC Why, thanks, GB. Most of the faint temporary odor has little to do with anything in it, but results from the liquid having been confined in an airless dark warm enclosure for days. Artesian water would smell, stuck in such a place. Air and sunlight banishes all, and quickly. While we are listing my sins, I've also been known to wash my hands in a running stream. With a bare modicum of soap. Okay, okay. I also, with becoming modesty, occasionally do in the woods what the bears do. Though I'd rather not. Bob, who usually takes along a small shovel, which the bears do not. >>>I like your blog. I've just spent 30 entertaining minutes >>>wandering around in it, and bookmarked the rest. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Bob Heck, I dumped our gray water under our trailer just last night. I do it once a week whenever we are parked in one of our kid's yards. It makes for nice green grass. We can go well over 2 weeks with the black water, but the gray needs dumping every week, and I'm not about to drive 7 miles to dump when the lawn needs water anyway. Lon >>Our graywater reeks to high heaven. It's probably because we're meat- >>eaters-- no matter how you try, some of the grease does go down that >>drain! There's your problem. You're letting it sit in the tank and ferment. If you'd simply let it run out on the ground, no problem. >I've dumped mine on my front lawn. You can only smell it if you >get on all fours, right where it comes out of the hose. And 30 >minutes or an hour later the area is dry and you can't smell it >at all, or tell where it was. Try it, you'll see what I mean. Yup. Our first RV, a 68 Holiday Rambler pickup camper didn't have any grey water plumbing per se. The sink was up front next to the wall. A hose ran straight down from each sink bowl, through the body and ended just outside. When the camper was in the truck, the sink drained into the truck bed. When it was off the truck, the sink drained onto the ground. No one gave it a second thought. >I think this particular annoyance is vastly overhyped. I have >visited several official forest campgrounds where the camp host [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >But 30 minutes later, they'd never know it anyway. Believe it or not, black water is almost the same. Far back in the woods I've had the occasion more than once to dig a large 'skat hole' and liberate my black water. The odor's gone practically before I got the hole covered back up. On another occasion when living in Atlanta, my septic tank field line collapsed. While scheming on how to put in a new line without the permit that Cobb county refused to issue, I had to deal with the liquid emergency. That I did by propping up the lid on the tank, dropping in a submersible pump and pumping the tank out into some dense woods next to the house. The odor was just barely detectable while pumping but it had dissipated completely by the time I got the pump out and the cover back down. I had to do that each day for a week, selecting a different patch to "water" each time until the weekend came and I could commence operation of the "midnight field line installation service". :-) Cobb county just THOUGHT they were going to make me drop $30k to tie onto their hugely expensive sewer system! John -- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! Tellico Plains, Occupied TN I'm going crazy. Wanna come along? >Our graywater reeks to high heaven. It's probably because we're meat- >eaters-- no matter how you try, some of the grease does go down that >drain! It reeks because you let it sit before dumping... if it goes right from the sink to the ground no smell. I wipe all food, grease etc, out of pans, with a paper towel, before washing. The dogs lick the plate clean so no food goes in the gray tank. Hunter >>Our graywater reeks to high heaven. It's probably because we're meat- >>eaters-- no matter how you try, some of the grease does go down that [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Hunter Another thing I noticed after reading her blog is that she's in the East. Things are a bit more crowded there. And perhaps more officiously regulated. I'd never put my drain in someone else's site. Well, not unless it was LZ's. :o) Most of the places I camp, and all the places I've dumped gray water, other than my front yard, were in relatively wide spread and sparsely populated campgrounds in the national forest, and then 30 feet or so back in the tangle. Or, in the case of Lake City, off the cliff. Nobody flatspotting there. And nobody to offend. But the black stuff goes in the dump station. I can go a loooong time without dumping the black tank if I need to. The gray has to go every 3 or 4 days. Bob > Another thing I noticed after reading her blog is that she's in > the East. Things are a bit more crowded there. And perhaps more > officiously regulated. > > I'd never put my drain in someone else's site. Well, not unless > it was LZ's. :o) And I'd route it back into your fresh water tank. LZ > I can go a loooong time without dumping the black >tank if I need to. LOL Naturally... see previous comment regarding bears and woods. Ginger >>> 14. Show off your “converted” 1950’s bus, carrying photos around and >>> suggesting to campground staff that “this park really needs to have a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Bob, who often dumps gray water in the woods at the end of a 50 > foot hose. There's nothing in it but water and a little soap. Plus bacteria...... LZ >> 14. Show off your “converted” 1950’s bus, carrying photos around and >> suggesting to campground staff that “this park really needs to have a [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > (just visiting....) > http://ustravel.today.com Nice Web site Stephanie.. It was funny.. Not to worry about my taking offense.. it was in jest.. 'jest' no smiley.. :) :) My lil' bus will look like a new one.. in and out when I pull out of here in the fall.. For Bonomi: I know better than to tape my hotplate[s] to a seat.. you have to silicone those babies... the tape melts and gets all icky... sheesh.... SignatureOl' Gar and Mahoney... Workin' on the Hot-Rod Bus.. under the bridge.. down by the river.. --Earthquake proof retro-fitted bridge.. that is.. http://coltonmotorexpress.blogspot.com/ >For Bonomi: I know better than to tape my hotplate[s] to a seat.. you > have to silicone those babies... the tape melts and gets all icky... > sheesh.... Use heavy-duty Velcro instead. Then you can take it off when you're not using it, and whoever sits on that seat won't slide around during fast turns <g>.... GB in NC |
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