Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:30:13 -0500
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From: vt <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Misc Friday Ramblings, probably long, possibly pointless....
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I gave my Honda Accord SEI to the Lutheran's "Good News Garage" a few years
ago. They rehab cars and either donate or sell them below book value to
folks who need vehicles to get to/from work etc. Since then, my 84 Westy
has been my primary vehicle.
From 02/2006 until 03/2007, the Westy made weekly or more round trips
between my Colchester, Vermont home and Waterville, Maine where my wife was
working as an MD. She underwent to major surgeries in November and
December, 2007, and the Westy proved itself over and over on the travels
to/from hospitals in Maine and Boston and on the round trips between Maine
and Vermont, because she could lie down comfortably and sleep during those
dozens of trips. Her 2007 Subaro was nowhere near so accomodating and
comfortable on the Westy.
Now that we are back in Vermont, we are planning to buy a 91 Westy which we
will use for a traveling, home-based and home visiting medical practice. I
will set up my administrative resources (laptop, printer and scanner) to do
the home visit admin tasks while my wife is doing her thing with patients,
and we can transport her EKG, Spirometer and the non-complex lab resources,
and carry medical supplies as well.
An aside re the 84: The vehicle has served me well during a six month
"mid-life walk-about" many years ago when I traveled from home to the Panama
Canal and then northward to the North Slope region of Alaska. Since 1998, I
have used the Westy as an emergency and disaster operations' communication
center during response situations for the American Red Cross when my amateur
radio license and equipment replaced unusable cell phone systems affected by
storms, floods, etc.
Sam Conant Colchster, Vermont ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark
Tuovinen" <mst@AK.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, April
13, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Misc Friday Ramblings, probably long, possibly
pointless....
Bryan,
Re: "So the question is, does anybody still drive a Vanagon (or loaf) as a
daily driver out there? What are you doing with those vans? Are there people
here that (gulp) just use the van for camping? I could never understand
that one."
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