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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:11 am    Post subject: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/06/16/van-camping-hawaii-rental-cars/?itid=hp_lifestyle
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:47 am    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

haha, all life aint IG
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:53 am    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

That came across my feed this morning too...

Boiled down to yet another "I did no planning, had no idea what I was doing, and I've got no idea why it sucked!"
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

A good lesson for those with rose colored glasses.

However our 'vanlife' is excellent because we've spent years and $$$ figuring it out. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

The commenters in the article are not very kind with the author - essentially, blaming her lack of preparation and unreal expectations.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Check out the photo of her checking into the campground. Should she even be driving with her right foot in a cast?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Even when I sucked at it, sleeping on the floor of my first tin top Vanagon/oven way back in the prior century, I found no reason to complain. I slept in parking lots along the Redneck Riviera for several weeks, hot as hell and bugs galore, and still loved it. I either jumped in the Gulf or washed up at gas stations or friends' places and was perfectly happy. (I wasn't trying to work or be un-sweaty, though.)

I think you either like it or you don't. If creature comforts are that important, find another way to travel.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

you say living in a van down by the river, like it's a bad thing?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Eh!
Another newbie whining about being a little inconvenienced.

These stories are good, scare away vast numbers of highway cloggers.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

I grew up with no air conditioning. Not in the house or the car until my first Vanagon in 1995. The AC pooped out in 1999 and never got fixed. I just lay a big beach towel over the seat and roll down some windows. I get queasy being in a ice cold car and stepping out into 80+ degree weather and vice versa over and over.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Funny but she is griping about all the typical van-camping imperfections.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Basically they need people to click on the article, to get paid by the advertisers..
Popular subjects get more clicks than unknown subjects.
#vanlife makes it popular.
Controversy gets clicks, gets the advertising dollars

Move along folks.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Good reminder for me to install a 11” roof vent van
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

thebigben wrote:
Good reminder for me to install a 11” roof vent van


Well, I couldn't fit through an 11" roof vent either..
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

I could only get through a few paragraphs. Sounds like somebody should never visit the exquisite beaches of Bali and anywhere tropical. Insufferable. I remember when people didn’t like something and didn’t do it again. Now it’s important to share with everyone, like they are the first to experience a let down. Click!

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

RainierSyncro wrote:
80+ degree weather


Ahhh, I miss the PNW.... Come spend a few summers here in SW and let me know how that towel and open window works for you
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:34 am    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Isn't it wonderful how much smarter we are that she is. And how exactly did we get so smart? Remember the "improvements" we made to fix everything she mentioned because we found ourselves slightly uncomfortable? And since so many of us have totally tuned up Westies, standing up and airlessness has been solved for us. For us tintoppers, we have improvised until we have the comfort we want.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:47 am    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

Is it bad that I didn't even bother to click the link?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:55 am    Post subject: Re: Hot Sweaty Nightmare Reply with quote

We create the problem by clicking on the link. We can stop this with the idiot threshold “ pay me $5 for life wasting ” internet policy is up and running
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