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Sorry for the delay but, work in the shop, other VW  events and family
commitments have all got in the way of getting the BusFusion  2004 report out and
about.  The _BusFusion website_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)
will be  updated with a full report and pictures sometime in July.  There is
just no  time to do it now.  There is one report posted on the Net by Caroline
Cote  of Montreal that you can read and it pretty well says everything,  click
here >
_http://members17.clubphoto.com/caroline774361/2370911/guest.phtml_
(http://members17.clubphoto.com/caroline774361/2370911/guest.phtml)
Any others who have posted reports on the Net please link them up to this
message.
Version Francais to follow shortly.
Enjoy !

   The beautiful weather was a great benefit in attracting  135 VW campers to
the fourth 2004 BusFusion event. Participants came from near  and far. The
infamous Larry Chase limped into the campground with a very poorly  running
Roadhaus all the way from Oregon. Other Volks from the IWCCC, WOTC,  LiMBO, CCVWC,
Full Moon Bus club, and The Bug Pack came from Indiana, Michigan,  New
Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Quebec, Greater Toronto Area, and Eastern  Ontario.
Many day visitors including family members,  members from the Capital City
Volkswagen club, Cornwall Volkswagen club, and the  Ottawa V-dubbing club came
to visit BusFusion and to enjoy the RiverEdge  activities. Throughout Almonte,
local artisans practised their art skills and  sold their wares. In addition,
there was an Ontario Open Doors event of the  historic sites in and around The
Town of Mississippi Mills. On Saturday morning  after the flea-market, the
many door prizes and fifty-fifty raffle were drawn.  Thank you to all the
sponsors who have helped to make BusFusion a great event.  Ron Cashman won the
stainless steel muffler donated by STEBRO and Frank  Condelli. A member of the
International Westfalia Club won the sought after dish  set with the VW Bus' on
the rim donated by The Bus  Depot.

Other highlights are that Greg Potts  entertained us when he took the engine
out from his Bay Window bus to replace a  disintegrated throw-out bearing. The
amazing thing was that someone had a spare  throw-out bearing with them. Ben
Huot from Montreal demonstrated his remote  control flying skills of an
electric powered helicopter. Adrianne Steel, a local  artist, painted Hans Brouwer's
1969 Bus with children from around the world  playing basketball under an
apple tree.

The evening  activities included a film night on Thursday night, Jazz crawl
on Friday night,  and on Saturday night there was music around the campfire
provided by BusFusion  partisans (a violinist, a few guitar players, couple of
harmonicas and many  voices).

Cooling off in the Mississippi River,  canoeing, socialising, and shopping in
Almonte were some of the favourite  activities of the BusFusion participants.

On Sunday morning, volunteers prepared a Burrito  breakfast for all the
BusFusion participants. The Burrito breakfast was such a  great success that we
will have to do this again next year at the fifth  BusFusion.

After the Breakfast, the final prizes were  given out for the best decorated
campsite (where did Greg get that 6 foot Corona  beer bottle), Larry Chase won
the price for having the most gadgets, and the  Bean Bus', donated by Bill
Monk, were handed out for the kids colouring  contest.

Thank you to everyone who came to BusFusion  to make this a memorable event,
see you all next year !


Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
_BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)  a VW Camper
camping event, Almonte, ON, June 10 ~ 13, 2004
'87 Westy, '90 Carat &  Lionel Trains
Member: _Vanagon List_ (http://www.vanagon.com/) , _LiMBO_
(http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/) , _IWCCC_ (http://www.westfalia.qc.ca/)  & _CCVWC_
(http://www.ccvwc.ca/)
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in  the Ottawa Valley
_STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel  Mufflers_
(http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm)
_Frank Condelli &  Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html)
or  http://frankcondelli.com