Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:31:07 +0000
Reply-To: samcvt@COMCAST.NET
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Sam Conant <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: What a Saturday!! (kinda long)
I buy AAA Plus .... Haven't been refused a road service since I bought my 84 in 1996 200k miles ago.
SamC
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From: "John C..." <Trvlr2001@COMCAST.NET>
> Hi Anna,
> I would strongly suggest AAA RV. $80 bucks a year.
> They not only tow, they fix flats & deliver gasoline.
> best,
> John C...
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Anna Quinn-Smith
>
> > Well - me & the dawgs TRIED to go see the Perseid meteor showers Sat eve. .
> > . . . drove away from Portland (OR) city lights to countryside south and east.
> > (Molalla-Mulino, for those familiar w/the area). The sun was setting pink in
> an
> > otherwise clear sky (yay!) as we scouted likely stopping spots.
> > Alas - with urban growth creeping rurally, traffic was horrendous! So even
> > when a dark spot could be found, car lights were a real bother! Add to that
> the
> > ubiquitous rural exterior quartz security lights & we hit a real snag. Now,
> mind
> > you, I am somewhat disabled so a hike-however brief-was out of the question.
> > But still I kept on, determined to take advantage of this moonless early
> > August sky show. When a spot was finally found, damn if a purplish-black
> > fan-shaped cloud bank wasn't hurrying my way! The dogs were whining, I had to
> > pee, and there were just way to many cars for "way out in the sticks"!
> > So, homeward we headed; with a stop at local "Burgerville" for a Tillamook
> > ice cream milkshake and a short cut thru Fred Meyer pkg lot in Oregon City. I
> > decided to stop & check out the awful noise I had been hearing. If it was that
> > newer muffler I was gonna have to head on in 1st thing Mon morning . . .
> > instead, a very flat tire rear right. Double damn! This was 11pm. Called a few
> > friends & left msgs; then tow companies. Many don't do flats anymore; others
> > didn't go to Or.City; the one that did was 2+ hrs out! And the late nite
> > rabble-rousers made me a wee bit nervous. C'mon, dawgs, BARK - save me! When I
> > finally settled on one that was 1hr or less, I was wiped out. Down went the
> bed
> > (hoo-rah for Vanagon campers!) & snooze went the canids & I. Then it took
> quite
> > over an hr for poor Darryl to change out the tire-seems the spare was never
> used
> > in it's 26 yrs! Rust rust rust .... he banged and tweaked and swore and went
> > 'ouch'. I still had to pee. I pardoned myself & zoomed of
> > f on my scooter to check out the shrubbery for nature's call . . . "how do you
> > spell ' relief ' ?" It was after 2AM when he finally sent me on my way - home,
> > wind down, computer messages and bed by 0500!
> > Next year I'll stay in the Santiam wilderness outside Eugene to catch a
> > star -
> > - Anna QS
> > ' 86 Blue Mongrel . . & the dawgs
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