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Date:         Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:46:35 -0400
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From:         David Clarkson <dvdclarksn@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trip Report
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Typical of the good Karma that follows bluegrass musicians travelling in vanagons!

David Clarkson bluegrass guitar player in his faithful 90 Westy

-----Original Message----- From: crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Trip Report

Good Morning All.

I got home late last night from a really great week teaching String Bass and playing music at the 108 Mile Ranch Bluegrass Workshop in the Cariboo Country of BC.

We were on the way home in Tim's 84 Westy and things were going fine,. The temperature was just above freezing and it snowing lightly, but we were still warm from the amazing people we met at the workshop.

We stopped at a pullout over the Thompson River to pee and to admire the view of the mountain opposite. As Tim put it into Park, the motor did a little rev -drop -rev-drop shuffle, then he shut it off.

It wouldn't re-start. It cranked fine and fired, but didn't seem to have the fuel to sustain combustion, so I went in search of the fuel pump relays. First we had to shift the two string basses, three guitars, banjo and mandolin that were strapped into the bed area. Of course, being the banjo player's van there were no tools in it whatsoever, so I couldn't really do anything but look at the relays and of course there was no cell phone signal.

As I was leaning in with the wind and snow blowing harder and the temperature dropping I saw a northbound white SUV slow down and back up to come over to where we were.

The driver, a manager with CN Rail, said that he used to have a Westy and did we need some help. After hearing our story, he offered to take us with him to Kamloops where we could at least use the phone etc. I mentioned the valuable collection of instruments filling the van, and he offered to leave some of his gear in the VW so we could take our stuff with us. After thinking for a minute, he turned around and we went south to Lytton, to the temporary works yard that CN is renting from the Lytton band while the RR does some repairs in the Canyon. When we got there he left us in the Ford and went to talk to his Supervisor. He came back with two Beef Stroganoff dinners for us and told us that he was going to take his colleagues car to Kamloops and let us take his home!

-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.


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