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Date:         Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:21:45 -0700
Reply-To:     "dhanson@gorge.net" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From:         "dhanson@gorge.net" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Sheesh!  Wildflowers?  No real vanagon content
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Last Sunday's LA and San Deigo newspapers must have run stories on the "Desert Wildflower Bloom". And people in those cities must be really hard-up to occupy themselves, or something. This weekend, our little desert town is SWAMPED with Lookie-Lous, driving around in their fancy city SUVs and motorhomes and standing out(breifly) in droves in the desert looking at wildflowers.. Now, don't get me wrong, they are nice(the flowers)...but are they worth an overnight trip or a few hundred bucks worth of fuel and hours in bumper to bumper freeway traffic to come see? Most flower-lookers find another crowd of stopped (usually double parked or blocking the road) vehicles and they all bail out(usually without checking if there is traffic, because they are in the "Wilderness"), spend a few minutes walking around in the sand, take some pics with cell phones and then they jump back in and head for fast food and home again, I guess. I did see a couple of "new" Vanagons, maybe some listers from SD or LA. But So Cal tourists prefer much more fancy rides...Right here in the SD Branch Library parking lot I can see two Cayennes and a really fancy Rolls with what looks to be factory alloy wheels...The Rolls is HUGE...And there goes a white Westie with two bikes on the back...I'd take the Westie, myself, though you could probably make the Rolls into a pretty decent camper with some work... Don Hanson


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