Date:         Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:09:00 -0700
Reply-To:     Chris Radcliffe <chris.radcliffe@HOME.COM>
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From:         Chris Radcliffe <chris.radcliffe@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: My Grand Exit  - Dont FEEL BAD - I did it too!
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Phaedra, et al

I've done something I consider worse: I put a treasured *surfboard*
(hand-shaped, from Australia) on top of my Westy while unlocking the sliding
door (I was, as usual,*exhausted and shivering*), then forgot it... and
drove off... then I heard it bounce off as the wind caught it.  Recovered
and repaired it, non-lethal damage but it shows (to remind me).  Worse (I
can't believe this), I did this about 5 years previous, less damage, but
you'd think I'd learn.

Chris Radcliffe (Bonehead)
chris_radcliffe@mindspring.com
'90 Westy Auto "Blue Whale"

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Subject: My Grand Exit - Dont FEEL BAD - I did it too!


Good stories.

I found out that my Westy pop top can easily withstand a 55mph wind--don't
ask how I know. Luckily I didn't harm anything, as I was on the first week
of a summer-long trip to Alaska, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories,
an epic adventure I call Fifteen Thousand Miles: A Summer in Alaksa.

Steve and Calvin, the 84 Westy