Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:08:39 -0700
Reply-To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: 31K for a vanagon? You must be mad -- or not.
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> In a message dated 10/14/05 2:24:14 AM, Jahsurf@AOL.COM writes:
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> Can you say ADVENTURE! Hell yes I can say adventure, and I can spell it too: S-Y-N-C-R-O.
>> "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
>> What a dismal definition of adventure. Is this to where we have come?
I may take some heat for what I'm about to say........but I agree with Jeff here:
I've done my share of ADVENTURE; having driven vanagon westies in Suadi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt,
Jordon, Syria, Turkey and through much of Europe, USA and Canada. so if you want to talk
'adventure' I can "talk the talk and walk the walk".
I just want to say that I could have done 99.9% of what I did with a 2WD vanagon westy. As
"beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so is 'adventure'. I have a few minutes to waste, so
here is an 'adventure' story:
My son, when he was 18 years old, and a new driver, took my 91 Syncro Westy from Halifax NS, 90
kms to Truro NS on a 4 lane divided highway. He & his buddies slept in a motel drove around for a
day and drove 90 kms home on the same 4 lane divided highway. He was SO proud of himself!!!!!
smiles from ear to ear, he did it all by himself!!! Took a risk!!!! no adults!!! That weekend he
DID know how to spell ADVENTURE and it was in a Syncro Westy, but it had nothing to do with Syncro
or Westy.
My point being that for some, a "small step for man" is an adventure, for others a soccer mum
deflating the tyres to drive across sand to the BBQ pit, for some a trip from Terra del Fuego to
Alaska and back, for some, a trip around Africa, for some getting "away from it all" in the wilds
of Utah or BC, for me, my 2000 trip from Cairo to Amsterdam was an adventure.
Granted, there are many who have done much more 'adventure travel' than I, and my hats off to
them, but IMHO beauty, adventure, and the 'need' for a syncro westy are mostly in the heart,
minds, goals, and yes, ego of the beholder. Malcolm (NS, Canada)
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