Date:         Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:40:15 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Introduction
Comments: To: joanna@DREAMRUNNER.COM
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I'm taking care of my 94 year old Dad and my 86 year old Mother.
I'm into about year number 8.
Girl you need a break.
I bought my 83 Westy in 1995 to escape for weekends and I did just that
until it came to the time when Mom and Dad had to have someone here 24-7.
I still get away when they can stay with my Brother and his wife but that
really just works out to once every 45 days or so.
I'm in Dallas Texas and both my sons came by the house about a year ago
for money and both moved to Albuquerque NM.
I'd be in Idaho or some place with clean air if I didn't have Mom and Dad
to take care of.
I don't know how good your memory is but I'd suggest that you plan on
keeping your present vehicle and add the Westy as a second until you get
the bugs out of your new acquired Westy.
This could take as long as a year and thousands of dollars if the PO
pulls one over on you.


Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
66 Air Cooled Splittie Westy

> Fast forward not quite 30 years. Family obligations meant taking
> care of my
> elderly mother and driving her around in her Thunderbird. Not how I
> planned
> to spend almost 8 years of my life, but one plays the hand that is
> dealt.
>
> Within the span of a few months, my son married, my mother died, and
> I found
> myself facing the delightful but scary question "what do I do with
> the rest
> of my life?"
>

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