Date:         Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:29:16 -0400
Reply-To:     "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
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From:         "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
Subject:      Road Trip - PA to AZ
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Since it's Friday, a fun topic: road trip!  :-)

My wife and I are hoping to take a trip from PA to AZ in November some time,
taking 4-5 weeks for the round trip in our "new" '85 Westy.  We are, of course,
taking our now 7-week old daughter along for the ride.  Furthermore, we hope to
caravan with another v@v couple for most of the trip.

Our path will probably take us to Darrell Boehler's house, St. Louis, down in
to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and on to Arizona.  On the way back, we hope to
take a more southern route through southern Texas, Louisiana, Alabama (you
gonna be around Unca Joel?), and Tennessee.

On to the questions:

1) Any suggestions from those who have taken extended trips with small
children?

2) Are any of you along the possible path willing to let us park in your
driveway and maybe run us a powercord for the night?  We actually prefer this
to being invited to sleep in a guest room since we know and love our Westy bed.
 Furthermore, our little one won't wake anyone in the house when she's ready to
eat every 3-4 hours.

3) Stuff to see along the way?  We hope to do part of Rt. 66, on which I have a
decent manual in "Road Trip USA".  We won't have an extreme amount of spare
time, but if there are any "must see" sights along the way that we might
otherwise not have thought of, please send suggestions our way.  I did get one
of the National Park passes, so Nat'l Parks will be free to us.

We are, of course, taking the LiMBO TTT book, so we'll start there in terms of
VW contacts.

Oh, and if anyone wants to caravan along for part of the trip, let me know.

Regards,

-Karl

Karl & Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
'00 Wannabusser "Julia"
'87 Weekender "Bev" - 201K Miles
'85 Westy Camper "Fred" - 39K Miles
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