Date:         Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:05:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Brendan Slevin <totorovan@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Brendan Slevin <totorovan@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      yellow doka in hood river, yours or. . . trip to Maupin gone wild.
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We were exploring north central Oregon and the Columbia Gorge this weekend,
a trip to Maupin that got longer and longer. :)  We saw a great yellow,
syncro doka in Hood River.  it was in a parking lot for some city offices I
think.  Anyway, was it yours?  it was cool to see.  Really high off the
ground, I wasn't sure if that is stock or what, I don't have much experience
with the doka's.

We drove to Maupin on friday after the kids got out of school.  We had
planned on staying at the Oasis cabins who, by the way, are hosting a VW
meet in their campground on father's day weekend in June.  We'd stayed there
a couple years ago, pre Vanagon, and I hadn't noticed all the buses before.
The guy that runs it has about 5 old bays there.  The cabins are great and
cheap off season/reasonable on season.  We settled in and ate dinner and
slept.  The next day we headed down the Deschutes to Shearer's Falls and
then up to White River Falls.  We hiked around and then sat in the grass at
the parking for White River Falls drinking a margarita for a long long time
enjoying the sunshine.  Today, Sunday, we were planning on headed back
toward Bend by way of Shaniko, the ghost town, but since no one in Maupin
was serving breakfast but the greasy spoon, we decided to go to Hood River.
We made it to the Dalles and had to eat.  Full bellies, we drove on down
I-84 to Hood River and before we got into town we headed over the bridge to
White Salmon/Bigen.  I had just commented to Sommer that my friend Paul's
parents live in White Salmon and joked that we should stop in and say hi,
when they walked by the van.  We sat and talked for a while and the headed
back down across the bridge to Hood River.  We explored HR for a while,
hiked up the Hood River along a big water pipeline and some train tracks and
then got on HWY 35 toward Mt. Hood and then on to HWY 26, 97 and Bend.  Our
200 mile trip turned into 350 or so pretty fast. :)  Ah the life of the
Vanagon.  Totoro was sooooo great the whole way.  We clicked 149,000 (on the
odo at least :) )  and the way home.

Brendan
1984 GL  Totoro
Bend, Oregon