Date:         Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:45:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Lit
Comments: To: Wesley Pegden <wes@cs.uchicago.edu>
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Or drinking and camping...

On 7/28/07, Wesley Pegden <wes@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> Here I was assuming this was going to be an email about an engine fire...
>
> Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> > "I climbed into Kate and Dave's Vanagon in the
> > morning..."
> >
> > You read about them on web pages. You read about them
> > in  blogs and in the Bentley and, of course, you read
> > about them here but you seldom come across the mention
> > of one on the printed page in casual reading.
> >
> > I picked up a copy of "The Unsavvy Traveler," a
> > collection of travel writings, and in "The Mongrels"
> > by Novella Carpenter paragraph three begins with the
> > above words.  That's about it for Vanagon-specific
> > narrative, but it's an okay yarn and there's later
> > mention of an interesting demise involving a different
> > van.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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