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Sun May 24, 2009 3:41 pm

VWGeorge wrote: I AM THE GUY WITH THE FROZEN SLUSHIE MACHINE!!!!

The ULTIMATE Westfalia accessory!

They are extremely rare, but Westfalia did equip a small number of westies with squishie machines, some people think turbo diesel syncros are worth a lot of money, LOL They've never seen how much a Squishie equipped Westy goes for :shock:

Sun May 24, 2009 3:58 pm

For the past couple of years I like to go camping at the Mark Twain Lake camp grounds and there is always a crazy bunch of people there telling me I'm lucky I got a VW because without one you can't camp there during Labor Day weekend. It is sick, Nothing but VW's. I have even seen a bug and a syncro westy. The guy in the syncro went even as far as to sell VW stuff. What in the world? BNWNTA is what they called it. I think Bill is the guy that said I had to have a VW. Talk about Prejudice.

Mon May 25, 2009 9:34 am

Three years back at Sugar pine campground outside of Foresthill, CA, we were all setup for the night when a group of musicians began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin unplugged, singing in perfect harmony, practicing earnestly for a bluegrass festival the next weekend. Their music serenaded all of us to sleep, not a noisy camper in the area, kids included - all ears bent toward the bliss. It was absolutely sweet and good for the soul. Best camping treat we ever got for the price of admission.

Wed May 27, 2009 7:36 am

True campground crazinesss is showing up at a VERY popular campground on a Holiday weekend without a reservation, actcually expecting to get a campsite! Then screaming at the poor Ranger about your lack of planning (BTW, if there was 1 left YOU won't be the one getting it!)

Hope you all had a GREAT Memorial Day weekend!

Happy Camping!!

Wed May 27, 2009 10:33 am

mog555 wrote: Last weekend we were camping on the West coast of Michigan, and we got back from watching the sunset to find another 82 Westy parked across from us. It turns out a guy and his wife were driving through the park just enjoying the evening saw my Westy so they pulled in made some coffee and waited for us to show up. Real nice folks, as one would expect, but two 82 Westies, same random campground, same random night in MI? How crazy is that. I see very few Westies out and about period

I hear ya, brother. What camp ground?

T.Low
Walled Lake Central, Class of '82
Go Wings!

Wed May 27, 2009 10:42 am

Randy in Maine wrote: I stayed in that very same Key West KOA on December 31, 1999. :shock:

That night, some 16 year old kid stole the KOA guys golf cart and drove it around the campground and into the water. The management threw his parents (in the Greyhound Bus sized camper towing jet skiis and motorcyles) out of the campground at 10 PM. They must have had to drive to Miami to find a place to park it on New Years Eve. There was also a Phish concert going on near there and camping was just about nil to start with. :P

There actually is a WalMart in the Keys. They'd probably be more than comfortable there. :)

Wed May 27, 2009 1:37 pm

Lots of wild peacocks at Lake Sonoma Campgrounds. Rattlesnakes too, but decent trout fishing in the smaller streams leading to Lake Berryessa

Wed May 27, 2009 4:51 pm

I think my funniest camp experience was last fall in Eastern KY. A young couple walked around to every available campsite and then chose their site with a view of the lake. Their truck had "Just Married" on it and the woman still had her hair all done up. They pulled out all their brand new camp gear and he set it up while she watched. They sat on their new recliners and sipped wine watching the sunset. About an hour later the rain poured down. Shortly thereafter we heard a racket over at their site. He was taking down their tent and tossing all the gear in the back of the truck while she frowned from inside the cab.
My wife said we may have witnessed their first and last day of married life :lol: .

Wed May 27, 2009 10:04 pm

Quote: Shortly thereafter we heard a racket over at their site. He was taking down their tent and tossing all the gear in the back of the truck while she frowned from inside the cab. My wife said we may have witnessed their first and last day of married life.
See, if they'd had a Westy, they could have taken their wine into the 'parlor,' then drawn the curtains, shared the rear bed, and been lulled blissfully to sleep by the pattering of rain on the fiberglass roof. In the morning, bacon, eggs, tea, and toast, and a lovely dry place from which to look out at the gleaming washed world.

Westies are for lovers.

:shock:

Best!

Wed May 27, 2009 10:26 pm

[quote="msinabottle"] Quote:

Westies are for lovers.

Giggity Giggity Allright! That's why I have mine at college with me! :shock: :shock:

Thu May 28, 2009 6:23 am

last summer i was in the white mts with the family and me and my 11 yr old son are taking a small hike, we round a corner and right there in the middle of the trail, buns up, two teenagers going at it, full on, i mean heels pointed at the sun flying V .... might of been easier if we got a look at the other side(shoulders & head) the look on my sons face :shock: :shock: :lol:

Sun May 31, 2009 5:28 pm

I drove over to Vermont last Labor Day to drop my daughter off at college and do some camping for a few days. I towed my bike and planned on riding through the islands on Lake Champlain. My wife and I stayed at this campground on a small river in Middlebury that I found online. The campground owner was a real whacko but that's another story. We got the Westy setup and the bike unloaded and took off to check out the area. Beautiful, by the way. When we got back to the campground that night and I was waking over to take a shower I walked past two huge trailers and noticed a half dozen people standing around watching this pile of plastic inflating on the grass. On the way back from the showers I looked over at the trailers and couldn't believe my eyes. They were inflating this huge movie screen, it must have been 15 by 15 and were getting ready to watch a movie. Unreal!!

Sun May 31, 2009 8:24 pm

What is it with movies while camping these days? We were out overland camping (thru camping on 4x4 roads and trails in Washington State) and one of the guys pulled out a projector and hooked a dvd player up to it.

Are we such a mpovie culture that we can't even sit around a good campfire in the mountains without a frikin movie? Sheesh.

Sun May 31, 2009 8:48 pm

gotta be that lost drive in movie generation.

I'd love to watch a movie outside in the summer. too bad it's all sunlight here

Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:22 am

Haven't seen a obxn-noisy generator yet that couldn't be 'midnight tuned', if gas cap accessible some of your 'excess' syrup or even sugar will take care of the problem,Not claiming to have done this in the past but it did solve a gas theif problem in yrs back.

Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:50 am

Saw this Ice Cream truck camping at Camden Hills State Park. He probably could have made some extra cash
by selling his goods, The people were actually sleeping in the truck.

Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:50 am

The ice cream truck reminds me of a trip to First Landing SP in Virginia Beach a few years ago. At the checkin booth they had flyers for free delivery by nearby pizza places and Chinese restaurants. We did later see the obligatory slammed Civic with a roof sign delivering pizza.

Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:43 am

Nice to see this thread revived. Always interesting reading...

A couple years ago Ms. Moot and I were camped in the Westy at a FS campground in the San Isabel forest of Colorado (SW of Pueblo). In the evening about five guys in three cars pulled up directly across from us (most of the rest of the campground was empty) and proceeded to have a loud, drunken party. I finally yelled at them at 1:30 in the morning to STFU. They were rather rude in their reply but they did calm down (or pass out) soon thereafter.

Ah, but schadenfreud is sweet.

In the morning their campsite was a mess, trash and beer cans all over the place, garbage strewn about. I walked up to the other end of the campground to complain to the CG host (who wasn't there) and stopped to talk to the only other people there, a family camping in a tent and a PU with a shell. "We had a bear last night," said the kids. It seems that a momma bear and a couple cubs got into the back of their PU over night and trashed the inside - food, coolers, camping gear - while the family cowered in their tent. Another good reason to camp in a Westy.

After leaving a note for the CG host I went back to our campsite and noticed that all the trash and mess around the noisy neighbors was probably the next stop on momma bear and the kids' campground tour. The drunks were probably too wasted to notice they could have become bear burritos in their sleeping bags.

As we left I pulled up across from their tents and let fly with my newly installed GoWesty air horn and left. It felt great to amplify their hangovers.

But I did watch the rear view mirror all the way to Walsenburg.

Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:07 pm

Funny thread!

- Once in Virginia Beach, we were set up across from a huge RV. The guy would come out twice a day for 2 minutes only, in the morning to put his trash out, in the evening to get a 6 pack from his side storage. He was also towing a car that was bigger than our van.

- Same place in Virginia, the guy next to us was in a tent. He was obviously drunk and arguing on the phone with his girlfriend. He later left with his car and never came back. The crows got into his stuff and made a horrible mess. We found out later he got picked up by the cops during his outing and thrown in jail.

- Still in Virginia, after dinner, a random guy comes to my wife and asked her if she wanted to dance.

- In Old Orchard Maine, we were parked next to a screamer (female). She kept the neighbourhood up for most of the night. In the morning, the other neighbour (female also) looked at me and gave me a wink, thinking I was responsible for the performance.

- Last summer at a campground near home, a beater car parked in the lot next to us. They blew an air mattress, threw it on the ground and slept on it, no tent.

- Last summer in the White Mountains, a bear got into our cooler at night and would not leave, what a mess. I had to start the engine and turn the lights on to finally scare it away. I got out quickly, picked up everything and put the cooler in the luggage rack, there was only a yogurt missing.

- This one is not so funny, 3 years ago in Nova Scotia, the wife hit her head while getting out of the van via the side sliding door. She passed out real bad, we had to call 911. She was in hospital for 3 days with a severe concussion. When I came back to the van with the kids a few hours later (we all left with the ambulance), the neighbours had put our cat (the only time it came camping) on his leash, in the van. The poor thing got so tangled it was hanging by the neck when we found it, with a nice stinky poop below it on the carpet. The wife and the cat are fine.

I am sure I will think of some more…

Alex

Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:55 pm

Well, to counter my bear burrito and drunken kids and some of the other horror stories posted here, this one is really nice.

Ms. Moot and I were camping in Yellowstone back in the fall of 2010. We'd set up camp and were thinking about making dinner when a fellow came by and started chatting with us. He said he'd never seen inside a Westy before so we gave him the grand tour, all 70 square feet of it. He was impressed and then said, "Why don't you two come over to my rig for dinner. My two buddies and I have been planning this trip for the last nine months - we do this every year - and we have way too much food and wine."

We ended up having a great meal (and it was meal, not just a dinner) of BBQ steak and salmon, salad, dessert, and side dishes, all paired with several different kinds of really good wine. And did I mention brandy around the campfire? About the only thing that was missing was after-dinner cigars (just as well...). Turned out the guy who liked our Westy was an executive chef in Idaho. His two buddies, also cooks, had flown out from the east coast just for this trip to Yellowstone and a couple of days of camping and cooking with a rented motorhome. They appeared to be more interested in cooking and eating than Yellowstone itself.

They were moving on to a different campground the next day. We should have followed them.

All because we own a Westy!