Date:         Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:21:15 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: ok, what kinda trip miles are you all logging in your vans?
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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Scott,

What kinda mpg do you get with your turbo diesel??

Thanks,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> What !   you haven't been to Skagway, and White Horse, and Revelstoke, BC
> and Rogers Pass and Banff and the Icefields Parkway, and Jasper, and Liard
> Hot Springs, or Stewart BC, or Hyder AK, or Ketchikan ? ............
> ........you got a lotta drivin' to do yet young man !  :-)
> ( those all turbo diesel vanagon trips of mine, of course. )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Don Hanson
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 8:21 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: ok, what kinda trip miles are you all logging in your vans?
>
>   I'd be interested to learn of others who really drive the crap outta their
> vans, going places and having fun using the van as I imagine it was designed
> to be used...
>   So far this year (and I am leaving for the Arizona and California
> desert/mountains one more time next week) I've been to S.California (and to
> the dentist in Algodones, Mx)  twice (from the Portland, Oregon area) N. Cal
> once, southwestern Utah once and BC once.  Probably  drove to10 Washington,
> Oregon, Montana and Idaho towns over the spring and summer, to make a bike
> race. Usually somewhere within a few hundred miles of home.  I like leaving
> the afternoon before, in time to pre-ride the course, then camp in the van
> for a good rest, up for breakfast and the race..
>   I certainly couldn't do all that traveling if I still  had to use my Ford
> 250 Diesel truck for recreation like I did before fuel hit $3.50+ per
> gallon..  Buying my $3k van and putting another $1k into pre-emptive
> maintenance has been a real smart move...
>   Others use their vans like this?
>
>   Don Hanson
>
>
>