Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:23:38 -0600
Reply-To: Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MB.SYMPATICO.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MB.SYMPATICO.CA>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Making Tracks In Mexico!] A message from P.
Savage...
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Looks like she's spelling "gerry" wrong.
Jeff (not Geoff) in Winnipeg
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Schmitz <djs@GENE.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Making Tracks In Mexico!] A message from P. Savage...
I'm attempting to forward this email from Phaedra Savage. Apparently she has
been unsuccessful in sending email to the List directly while traveling.
Dan
> >From: "Phaedra Savage" <phaedrasavage@hotmail.com>
> >To: vanagon@jerry.vanagon.com
> >CC: phaedrasavage@hotmail.com
> >Subject: Making Tracks In Mexico!
> >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:18:20 -0000
> >
> >!Hola companñeros y compañeras!
> >
> >Get out your maps.
> >Today is my first chance at sending/receiving email
> >for some time, as I have been flying below the radar
> >screens.
> >Thanks to all who have written; great fun hearing
> >from you. Since my email time/funds are limited,
> >I will respond to questions upon my return.
> >
> >My 85 Westy is STILL purring along happily.
> >Not a single hitch. (Knock formica...)
> >I have not yet had to add a drop of coolant & still
> >not a single flat tire.
> >
> >I have seen two other Vanagons in the past month;
> >a blue & white with Ohio plates in Taxco--never
> >met the owner. Anyone know these volks?
> >In the Costa Esmeralda, Veracruz, I recently met two
> >amusing women just arrived from Oregon driving an
> >89 Westy--with a Shadyboy awning exactly like mine.
> >
> >We Vanagon & other small van travelers are the only ones
> >actually getting around freely in Mexico; the big rigs
> >& RV crowd cannot negociate the roads or narrow cobbled streets.
Generally
> >these folks, by nature less adventurous, arrive
> >with short tempers & white knuckles. They find some RV park
> >& sit tight, not seeing much, if anything, of Mexico.
> >¡Que lastima!
> >Westys are the right vehicle to really explore in style!
> >
> >So, a quick wrap-up of my whereabouts to date:
> >Left Northern CA in early December, crossed the border at
> >Nogales, AZ & made my way slowly up the Pacific coast till I
> >reached Manzanillo, headed inland to central Mexico thru
> >Guadalajara, Morelia, then on to San Miguel de Allende in the
> >state of Guanajuato, visiting Dolores Hidalgo, Atotonilco,
> >the city of Guanjuato, the ghost/gold mining town in the high
> >desert of Pozos.
> >
> >A month ago I left San Miguel de Allende & traveled to Tequisquiapan,
> >then on to Malinalco, Cuernavaca, Taxco, Puebla, Jalapa, the Costa
> >Esmeralda of Veracruz state, & eventually making my way back over the
high
> >sierra into Guanajuato state again.
> >I have once again covered some ground & seen some lovely &
> >amazing places, including the ruins of El Tajin, set in the green
> >semi-tropics near Papantla, a small city just inland from the
> >lush, green coast of Veracruz.
> >
> >Three nights ago, I discovered a delightful small town in the state
> >of Hidalgo & parked on a side street just a block off the main plaza
> >to spend the night. I located a nice restaurant & was immediately
invited
> >to join the mayor of the town & his associate for a drink & dinner.
> >
> >Now get this: One hour into our dinner conversation the mayor,
> >who had by then put away four shots of tequila with beer chasers,
> >excused his associate & laid it on the line. If I would consent
> >to become his mistress he would offer me a my choice of elegant
> >houses in the town center & keep me in style! He stood to make
> >his proposition, stroking my hand gently & repeating over & over
> >that his offer was made in all sincerity & with all due respect.
> >He inquired if I were Catholic.
> >He told me, naturally, that he loved his wife & family.
> >There were tears in the eyes that looked straight into mine.
> >I struggeled to keep a straight face.
> >He was an attractive man who, by nature of his Texas university education
&
> >political office, would not be mocked.
> >I declined his offer graciously, for within this culture it was
> >no insult.
> >He accepted my refusal like the gentleman he was, then called for
> >his security guard to see that my van was watched over by police
> >thru the night.
> >
> >I have another month's advemtures awaiting & will try to email.
> >Before next year, I will need new shocks, thus will look forward
> >to signing onto the List for opinions re this & other matters...
> >
> >¡Andele!
> >Phaedra
> >
> >
>
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