Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:18:26 -0600
Reply-To: Aaron Pearson <Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Aaron Pearson <Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM>
Subject: Re: 31K for a vanagon? You must be mad -- or not.
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i think of my van as something that gets me to and from adventure, in
comfort and style. the adventure starts happening when i step outside
the van.
aaron
'87 syncro gl
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Malcolm Stebbins
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:09 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 31K for a vanagon? You must be mad -- or not.
> In a message dated 10/14/05 2:24:14 AM, Jahsurf@AOL.COM writes:
>
> 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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