Date:         Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:04:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Lit
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <71d9cdf90707281935o582d8f32q9ce64002cf5a56ef@mail.gmail.com>
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It only mentions Portland, Oregon as the beginning of
the author's trip with them.  It does reference their
three dogs (traveling with, if any of you have tried
this stunt), which might narrow it down.  Or it could
be fiction.

Stephen

--- Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> Does it say where this took place?  My friend Dave &
> his wife Kate had a
> Pastel White 90 Westy for many years here in BC.
>
> On 7/28/07, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
> 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"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>




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