Tuesday, February 05, 2013

A Hefalump with a Scare Light

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In our RV neighborhood things change rapidly. It is not unusual to wake up with a different set of neighbors. Traveling for the last ten years we have met a lot of wonderful people. On the other hand there are always some real dingers that move in and drive everyone nuts. A big part of the outdoor experience is the peace and quite.

Last night the new neighbor left on his “Scare Light” all night. One great pleasure in the wilderness is the complete darkness and the view of the stars, then a dinger moves in with his own portable street light. How do you deal with dingers? When Kadizzle gets the chance today he will say to the dinger “ You must have forgotten and left your light on all night”. Since the dinger was collecting solar power during the day there should be a way to explain to him that it gets you no where if you collect power then piss it away scaring away the boogy man.

The noise offenders are the worst. There is nothing worse than some simple minded dinger that has to run a generator all day. The Kadizzles must make a confession. We have a generator. We try to use it as little as possible and do everything to keep it silent. However, The Kadizzles have seen dingers with huge Hefalump Motorhomes go off and leave their generator run all day. Must be to keep the air conditioning on. A few days back the mother of all dingers pulled into our area with a huge trailer behind his huge Hefalump. In the trailer he had a professional drum set and large speakers. With no regard for humanity he opened the trailer door turned up the speakers and blew the eardrums out of everyone. Thank ya Jesus he left.

Strangely a lot of people's idea of an outdoor adventure is to go to a nice place turn on their generator and watch television in the great outdoors. The RV population can be divided into three pretty broad groups. The purist have solar energy, do a lot of walking, biking and hiking, and usually are into birding. The purist never have the giant Hefalump RV's.

In the middle are the blenders with moderate size RV's and a blend of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Kadizzles lean toward the purist, but in reality are in the middle.

On the extreme are the gaint Hefalump guys. The more crap they can take with them the happier they are. Some pull a trailer and a jeep behind them. They love buttons. If they can push a button and open a door, aim their antenna, or let an awning go out they are in heaven. You know you are dealing with the ultimate dinger when you see them with the TV pulled out on the side of the Hefalump and are watching TV. The Hefalump drivers love to polish. It is not unusual for a Hefalump guy to immediately start polishing when he gets out. The Hefalumpl guys always have a surprise in their trailer. Sometimes it is a huge Harley, a big ATV, or best of all some shiny sports car.

On the bottom of the universe and perhaps the happiest are the bum walkers that are simply tent camping or making it through life on a bike. The people taking it simple and slow probably soak up everything the Hefalump guys missed because they could not get ten feet from some wheels.


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