Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 00:23:00 -0400
Reply-To: Detroit Bus <detroit.bus@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Detroit Bus <detroit.bus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Moving with a Vanagon, cross-country
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well, this is all very convincing. How do I find out about these "pods"?
On 5/22/05, Oxroad@aol.com <Oxroad@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 5/21/2005 4:31:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> detroit.bus@GMAIL.COM writes:
> contents of our one-bedroom apartment. I figure it will take about two
> Vanagon-loads
>
>
> TWO VANAGON LOADS! You must have one of the biggest on-bedrooms in New York
> City.
>
> Here's my advice. Ease up on the Coffee. You're gonna have to learn to relax
> if you want to survive in LA.
>
> If you're gonna pull a trailer to be fair to your economic configuration and
> factor in the cost of the new transmission, installed somewhere around Vail,
> CO. A fully loaded bus with a fully loaded trailer--small or not--and an 18
> year old tranny with 156K, spells "bring it on."
>
> The other scenario is no good either unless you're dying to drive 12,000
> miles and log in a minimum of 240 hours behind the wheel. If you dying to be
> in your bus for that long, just hurry out here. Because in LA you'll spend
> every waking moment in your car--except when you're underneath it trying to
> undo what city driving has contaminated.
>
> Get a pod. Ship all your stuff out. Take time to drive the country leasurely
> since you have time before your job starts. Stop in Montana and Wyoming--see
> the medicine wheel in Big Horn National Forest. See the site of the
> concentration camp from WWII for Asians outside Cody, WY. Stop in Boulder,
> CO and hit Conor O'neills Pub or the Walnut Grill. See the family in
> detriot. Get a picture with the largest ball of string. Eat at Bob's in
> Sturgus, SD. Go to Wall Drugs where ever that is. Take your time. And get
> used to it.
>
> Or, get out to LA quick and get up to Yosemite or drive the PCH up to San
> Francisco. OR head to Vegas, or all the stuff you won't be able to do out
> here once you're working.
>
> Don't waste good time moving. You've got a weekender. That's a vehicle about
> the journey. the kind of punishment you're talking about putting on your bus
> is for a destination vehicle like 2001 Honda Odessey.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA
>
>
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Garrick, Queens, NY
'87 GL Weekender
*****
With fond remembrances of:
'77 Beetle
'67 Bus
'59 Pickup sn# 460440
'67 Beetle
'76 Camper Bus
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