Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:14:10 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: (was Campers not) The Napmobile
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Thomas Edison took a 20 minute nap each day and look what he accomplished!
I have been taking naps at work from time to time too in the Westy.
Whether on the road or at work-can you think of a better place?
And if it breaks down or a flood is approaching- it's a refugemobile.
When Napster came out I thought it was a new expresso lounge!
Too bad! That's what my Westy is when I'm not camping. I have lunch, make
an espresso, wherever my job takes me .
When the" roach coach" blew it's horn at my last job I headed for the Westy.
And what better place is there for lunch?
Robert
1982 Westfalia
1982 Westfalia
----Original Message Follows----
From: Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU>
Reply-To: Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Campers not a good daily driver
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:06:29 -0400
There is one good reason why my Westy is a daily driver. Granted I only
come to my office twice a week, it is a 70 mile roundtrip which requires
me to get up at 4:30AM. The drive is not bad as it is 99% Highway, however
as the day progresses that early rise starts slowing you down, So I skip
lunch and later on the day skip to the parking lot, hop on my westy and
it's NAP TIME!! I come back to work energized, coherent and less cranky.
My Westy encourages overall well being and it's endorsed by the NIH and
Harvard Medical School. How is that for a NAP Mobile.
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-07/niom-np070102.php>
Jorge
'85 Wolfsburg Weekender
Betsy a.k.a "Plan B"
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Brian T. wrote:
> Eric, buddy...
>
> I completely disagree with you. I've been driving a
> Westfalia camper as a daily driver since 1999. I've
> done year around camping in both a 73' and my current
> 85' Westy with no issue. Of course, this is personal
> preference and there are those folks that don't like
> to wake up to adverse weather and I respect that.
>
> My personal spin is that it's when you stop using a
> machine that if starts to rot. Continual use within
> the scope of it's engineering and continual
> maintenance to sustain it's function, that's what I do
> and the thought of pickling my rig just because it's a
> bit cold or damp is just wrong :-)
>
> Two cents and then some,
> Brian from Salem, Or
> Wetwesty and general goofball
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Barbara,
> Campers like motor homes are not good candidates
> for
> daily driver vehicle. Camping for most people is just
> to
> cold in most state, and I can't imagine that Montana
> is
> any different. So there are many people how store
> there
> Compers for the winter.
> Eric
> P.S. If you like to camp in Montana in the winter
> you've got meet you...."
>
>
>
>
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1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg
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