Date:         Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:04:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Black Bears vs Westy Canvas?
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Jon wrote:
>> This is exactly why I have a weekender and wouldn't
want a full camper. What kind of a crazy person cooks
in their car?  sooty, dirty, smelly both good and
bad....


Not sure what you're cookin' up in your Westy that is
so smoky and greasy that it requires the excessive
ventilation and splatter-zone offered by the al fresco
food-preparation experience, but I'd be less worried
about your Westy interior than that of your
cardiovascular system.

Aside from the very occasional indulgence in a slice
of Spam fried up alongside our omelettes, all our
other Westy cooking consists of boiling rice or
noodles, or heating soup, which, besides being more
healthful, also leave no residual odors of food.

I dunno. Were I to choose the method of my own death,
and given a choice between a brutal and bloody mauling
by a bear in my van who has mistaken me for a large
breakfast sausage, or the long and torturous
bed-ridden decline of multiple cardiac arrests and
strokes caused by my cholesterol-clogged arteries, I
think I'd opt instead for the mauling, please. There's
just something stoic and noble about going down
swinging and screaming, in a flurry of blood and fur,
an active participant on the great circle of life ...

Besides, I'd get to spend my final moments on this
earth in my beloved Westy!

Jeffrey Earl
1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
http://www.vanthology.com/



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