Date:         Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:15:49 -0800
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Las Vegas trip report
Comments: To: Tim Olmstead <tim@CWO.COM>
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Did you guys happen to be up in the Mountains like near Mount Charleston? one weekend?
had a van wave to me while i was coming down on my bike.


Vegas driving is interesting forsure, lanes are fast. 15 is death trap stay right.
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Olmstead <tim@CWO.COM>
Sent: Feb 17, 2005 7:01 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Las Vegas trip report

The Vanagon's must have been in stealth mode, driving at the speed of light,
or camping somewhere off the highway. I vote stealth mode looking like
casino vans. Hope you enjoyed your trip to the land of warm and dry.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Sharon Mendonca
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:52 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Las Vegas trip report

After just returning from an uneventful trip in our Westy (VW problem-wise
that is) to Las Vegas from the Central CA coast, I can see that "bigger is
not always better".  On our trip down to Vegas, we saw about 4 single car
rollover accidents on Highway 15 going into Vegas - all big SUV's, but one.
Today, we saw another single car rollover with a Suburban on the same
highway coming home and there was evidently a fatality in this accident.
Sometimes after seeing things like this, it's nice to just take your time
driving and leave all the fast flyers to the fast lanes.  Maybe it's a
blessing not to be able to drive 90 miles per hour.

By the way, didn't see hardly any Vanagons to and from or in Vegas.  We
maybe saw 4 or so the whole trip.

Sharon & Bob Mendonca
88 Westy
88 Vanagon GL