Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:06:54 +0000
Reply-To: rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET
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From: Todd Last <rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Can you get Matilda into your living room?
Route 66 was Buzz Murdoch and Tod Styles in a '61 Corvette traveling the US.
Gerald lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III was from 77 Sunset Strip - a detective show in Hollywood. Not sure what car he drove on the show - he started out as a parking attendant.
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From: ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
> Just like the Tv show route 66 I think it was
> they drove into the house
> Kookie or something he had a 58 2 seater tbird
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bueses" <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Life not in a van (was RE: Parking Matilda) - NVC
>
>
> > on 9/11/06 5:33 AM, Joy Hecht at jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU wrote:
> >
> >> Someone else suggested it going camping for the weekend as a way to
> >> adjust.
> >> But for me that seems _really_ hard!
> >>
> >> Since I've been full-timing, all of my stuff has been in the van. Part
> >> of
> >> the transition to a house is moving things back into the house. The
> >> first
> >> to go was the cooler and all the food in the fridge. Then the
> >> silverware.
> >> I have some additional silverware somewhere in storage (in my basement)
> >> but
> >> I have no idea where. Then other kitchen stuff and all my clothes and
> >> everyday toiletries. (The stored toiletries - new bottle of shampoo,
> >> stuff
> >> that would be in your medicine cabinet - are still in the van.) Just
> >> this
> >> morning I lugged in the narrow plastic four-drawer dresser that has
> >> served
> >> as a "console" and coffee-cup holder between the front seats and also
> >> where
> >> I've stored office stuff, some tools, and various other things.
> >>
> >> The delight of living in the van - one of them - is that I always had my
> >> house and my stuff with me. No need to think about what to take with me.
> >> If I own it, it's there. But now that I'm moving back into the house,
> >> the
> >> van is no longer convenient to travel in, because I'd have to think about
> >> what to take with me, and move it all back out again. I never had to
> >> worry
> >> about leaving something behind when I was on the road, but now I would.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, the van is still my bedroom, since I don't have a bed
> >> or
> >> a couch in my house.
> >
> > Can you get Matilda into your living room?
> >
> > Grin,
> >
> > Tom B.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Which does help with the adjustment in some ways! And
> >> fortunately, as it turns out, my neighbors built a high fence between
> >> their
> >> yard and my driveway, which isn't elegant, but does afford me a lot of
> >> privacy.
> >
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