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Date:         Tue, 7 May 2002 08:13:41 -0600
Reply-To:     joseph Trussell <joetruss@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         joseph Trussell <joetruss@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The truth about Florida--Love Bugs
Comments: To: CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET
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Those "love bugs" are bad news for a Vanagon (or anything else on the highway for that matter.) I drove through a swarm of them in South Louisiana a couple of years ago and they covered the whole front of mine; I could barely see through the windshield.

I stopped about thirty miles later at a car wash and sprayed and scrubbed the front end, but it was already too late--I was never able to fully remove the smudge stains from of the paint, bumper, or even the license plate. When I got back to Denver a few weeks later, I called Ron and got a nose bra...

Joe T. Denver, CO '85 GL 'Bertha' '66 Westy

----Original Message Follows---- From: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET> Reply-To: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: The truth about Florida Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:23:07 -0500

The truth about Fla.?

You are food for everything that crawl's, swims, and flies---

Be sure toinstall a bug screen on your grill's---it's just about "Love Bug" season, and these black and orange in flight coitus maxiumus things will plug upyour radiator faster than you can say Jackie Robinson---yor windsheild will be loaded with them, so siight out the glass will be impared---

Oh- Yea--I think this is just about when the land crabs start migrating towards the ocean--don't run any of these bugger's over, as they will poke a hole through your tire's real quick----

Better have real good sceens on you Van too---the no seeum's will bite the hell out of you, whlie your napping---

If you go for a dip in the ocean, or gulf coast---be sure to look to shore once in awhile--look for the red flags they will ocassionally all of a sudden put up on the beach---- I had no idea what in the hell this meant, until somebody yelled "Shark" !!!

Oh--one more thng---keep an eye on the weather channel--I think this is Hurricane season--better buy some hurricane straps for your van to keep it planted to the ground----

Yea, I liked Fla.-----

I got the hell out of there --got tired of being eaten the critter's---and getting blown around---

Later,

Terry

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