Date:         Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:41:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
Subject:      trip report (sort of)
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Just got back from a whirlwind 9 day trip from Winnipeg to Ottawa,
Montreal, and the bustling metropolis of Red Bay, Ontario on the
shores of Lake Huron.  Beautiful weather, good scenery, nice people.
I didn't take the Westfalia this trip - not enough time and the gas
would've hurt.  Anyway had quite a few Vanagon sitings - one brown
Westfalia in Schreiber, Ontario with Manitoba plates (I thought I
knew everyone with MB plates), then a nice light coloured Ontario
Westfalia with the vanity plate "Vanagon" in Lake Superior Provincial
Park.  It was late so I didn't knock on the door, but it looked like
a nice unit.  Someone on the list perhaps?

On the way home last weekend I saw a Westfalia with Florida plates in
Wawa, Ontario and then a nice blue Syncro Westfalia in Neys
Provincial Park on Lake Superior.  In between there were half a dozen
vanagon and bay westfalias.  I don't think anyone noticed that I
waved from my 2003 Beetle.  The trip was definitely faster (and
cheaper) but wasn't quite the character building experience of the
Westfalia.  Next year.

Jeff
85 Westfalia GL
03 Beetle convertible
Winnipeg MB