Famous sightings... almost

At a camp ground in New Mexico, Came back from walking my dog a class a was parked next to us with the license plate, "GAMBLER". We sat & had a couple long necks. Later, We were in the pool. Yep. It was Kenny Rodgers.

When I was 14 my Dad brought me and my best buddy P.J. to Wheatly Provincial Park to camp by ourselves(Pop's seasonal was right next door at the old Holiday harbour)and on the Saturday night a brand new Winnebago with Michigan plates pulled in next to us with a man and two boys, after setting up he asked if he could buy some firewood off us and being my father's camper I told him to keep his money and to help himself(Pops made sure we had almost a full chord of firewood,lol)and he sat cooking hot-dogs and marshmallow's with what I assumed to be his kids. The next day we saw him un-wrapping new fishing gear as if they decided to go camping and bought everything new and took down a brand-new sports-pal aluminum canoe(remember those?) and I looked at his face as he smiled and waved over to us and thought I've seen him before somewhere, anywho' they left the next morning and I found an envelope with $20 us in our cooler with thank you on it.

A couple of weeks later me and my buddy P.J. were watching Peter Sellers " Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" on TV and when we saw George C. Scott who played Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson we both simultaneously looked at each other and yelled That's the guy!!! I can still see his face today and this is one face that you really can never forget or confuse with someone else, you never know who's sitting next to you in that shiny new coach next door!

Red Green:
When the going gets tough, switch to power tools.

Well, I guess I'm out of touch. I have no idea of who 80%+ of the people that are mentioned in this thread are; let alone recognize them. :h

The only person I have seen or met on the road was Jeg Coughlin. The only reason I knew it was him was it said Jeg Coughlin, Pro Stock driver on his transport rig. When I looked over it wasn't even him, it was just a transport driver. :S I did pass him so I guess I can say I beat Jeg Coughlin. :B

That's funny about meeting Clarence Thomas in Wally World. One of the most powerful men in the world camps at Wally world. Who would have thunk it! LOL

Summer of 2010. Loon Lake Lodge and RV Park near Reedsport, OR. Miranda Lambert. Nice looking bus. The crew stayed in cabins at the park. One of the guys working at the park wanted to met her so bad. I didn't even know who she was. Had to look on-line. Country singer. That explained it.

Tommy Brant, Christian Cowboy Singer.. I have a CD or two of his. Prevost Motor home, Chevy Taho with flat (Shreadded) tire (he did not know about tire pressure monitoring systems, Does now) Cathead Creek Ranch RV park in 2011 when I was down there for darling daughter's wedding... I helped him set up in the dark (Late due to flat on Tahoe)

Also years ago ... I was in my little Toyota Chinook camper at a state park in California when a big Class A pulled in - there weren't nearly so many of them then. Later in the day Hal Holbrook climbed out and took a walk. He was keeping to himself and I left him alone.

Patrick Wayne on an airplane and Ralph Nader at D/FW. If we're going to stray from the OPs camping question, I could start a long list of musicians and race drivers, starting with, say, Mick Jagger, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Rait, Eric Clapton, and many other of those guys back when my brother was playing trumpet with the Rolling Stones (he is the trumpet and trombone on all the early 70s hits), and Mario Andretti, Phil Hill, the Rodriquez brothers, Dan Gurney, etc., back when I was racing sports cars. I have a poster from a Sebring race covered with autographs of a lot of the most famous racing drivers of the time.

But the best story I've ever heard was a friend who was waiting for a flight at an airport, standing next to an African-American couple, and couldn't restrain herself from verbally admiring the woman's earrings, which were large and colorful. They chatted about that for a few minutes, and then she said to the husband, "You know, you look very familiar. Have we met before?" He reluctantly admitted that he was ... Jesse Jackson. She wanted to crawl through the floor.

Well, not while camping but, bumped into....

Bob Hope...Holiday Inn, Mansfield, OH.
Jeff Gordon...Lima, OH.
Mickey Gilly...Fort Wayne, IN. ... (just the two of us using the men's room before his concert)
Forest Tucker...Ft. Wayne....at a golf outing.
Steve Alford...Indianapolis, IN.
Bobby Knight...Indy (was invited to sit at his table at luncheon).
Jud Heathcoat....(another me and him in men's room...at an airport)
Gene Keady....Indy
Dan Coats...Indy........and,
Abe Lincoln....in his tomb, Springfield, ILL.
Grant Hill....teasing my 10-yr old son before the game)

During our fall trip in 2011 we set up in Cherry Hill Park and disconnected to go shopping. Drove toward the entrance and saw a rig with the Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice guys on the side, got to the end of that street and parked there was the "Porn Star Road Trip Bus". DW would only let me take pictures from the towed. There were a few guys standing around looking, but no porn stars.

Was buzzing south out of Anchorage last summer. Looked over to the right and there sat Wild West Guns.

looked up the place on the way back and there was ole Hans all decked out in cammies. he was the same guy as on the TV show. Got a pic of him and me.

Darn it he said the Pfred was on vacation.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni in 2008 when we both parked our coaches at a Walmart for the night. We had a great conversation while my wife and I were walking our dog.