Date:         Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:59:45 -0700
Reply-To:     Phil Stanhope <surfmobile007@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Phil Stanhope <surfmobile007@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sheesh! Wildflowers? No real vanagon content
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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.


I bought my Westy in SD and i had a few friends who
drove Vanagons around on i-5 or even on the "8" LOL.
SD is chock full of VW bus enthusiasts. If you want to
see fat tourists driving around in giant H2's
polluting up the place,  come to where i live now, in
Florida.....you have NO idea.
If this happens once every decade to your little
dessert you've got it made so please hush up.

Phil 84' Westy Tiico'ed in 02'


--- Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> That's just one of those SoCal things, tho it seems
> a little early yet. In
> the really wet years (relatively anyway) the whole
> desert damn near turns
> into a yellow carpet- and of course shortly after
> the vehicles are all
> yellow with bug guts. It gets a little nuts; I once
> drove from here to
> Mojave (about an hour) and by the time I got there I
> had to stop and clean
> the goo off the windshield because it was getting
> hard to see.
> A few years ago they had a huge bloom in Death
> Valley, which apparently only
> happens once every few decades, and people came from
> around the world to see
> it, including some listees, iirc.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> On 3/9/08, dhanson@gorge.net <dhanson@gorge.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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