Date:         Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:13:01 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons in California...
Comments: To: BJ Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
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Aw heck, Mrs Squirrel and drove my 71 Bay window up to Laguna Beach (CA)
and spent New Years Eve (also our anniversary) at a hotel. Must have seen
a dozen VW buses and vans of various vintages there. On New Year day we
rode our bicycles up the coast from Newport Beach (CA) to Sunset Beach
(also CA). It was kinda crowded on the "bike" path and after dodging kids
and dogs and folk meandering aimlessly we took our return trip on Highway
1. One has a better chance of getting killed when sharing the road with
motorized vehicles, but at least one can get up a good head of steam and
ride for a more than a few hundred feet without getting trapped behind a
phalanx of lumbering tourists.* I saw maybe five splitties cruising or
parked along the route, more than a few Vanagons, and one really cherry
bay window Westy parked at the state beach. Note the Vanagon content.

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* "They must be Bolivians," my brother used to say, "because they are
`obolivious.'"

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 1/2/2008 2:54 PM BJ Feddish wrote:

>>> A few Splitties are left but all pickups that I can recall. <<
>
> A slittie?? Bwahahahaha. I saw a splittie on the road in 1998. No kidding.
> We're more likely to see a unicorn or the Loch Ness Monster.
>
> Bryan