Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:43:48 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Six Guys Find Fault Fix & Flee Fleecing Fiefdom
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:44 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> Life will never be the same for these guys.
>
> "Veni, vidi, vici" as Julius Caesar once said,
>
> "I came, I saw, I conquered!"
>
> It fits. The guys have done just that on this first journey into life.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Roger Whittaker wrote:
>
>> Dateline Reporter
>>
>> Six guys are adding new meaning to that old country tune Six Days on the
>> Road as they book out of Las Vegas and head for that Eastern Sea Board.
>> Boston waits waits their arrival with breath as baited as if these men
>> were
>> the original Bruins returning with the 1929 Stanley Cup. Boston's first.
>> Originally, these young travelers were placed with the dark horses as a
>> weekend breakdown found them in Las Vegas
>> and at the mercy of mechanics lacking experience and knowledge. Somehow
>> the
>> six lads knew they were receiving incorrect information and heeded the
>> strong voice advising them to move-on.
>> A group of voices in the ether that is reported to be the Flaming Sword of
>> all Vanagon travelers continues to cheer them on and the goal of Boston by
>> Friday is surely in reach.
>> Vanagon owners need not worry about living life vicariously through these
>> fellows as they already live life through the windshield of a Vanagon.
>> The rest of the motoring public can only dream of the day, when problems
>> rest and pleasure come all wrapped up in the same vehicle.
>>
>> Drive on into the good night boys. Godspeed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> roger w
>> >From Proverbs:
>> Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
>> servant who becomes king ...
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While I'm not downplaying the "intestinal fortitude" of these intrepid new
millenium adventurers..after all, they did actually leave their keyboards
and gameboys to travel the country..they have had it so much easier today
than many of us 'old timers' did on our early trips 'walkabout' in
Vanagons. "Why, I remember walking 15 miles through the snow, just to get
to school...." Wait, wrong old timer story...
But think about it..The internet. Wireless connectivity. Credit cards.
Cell Phones. Vanagon List. Flicker, Twitter, Google. UPS for parts. Las
Vegas with more than just 3 stoplights.
I recall my '57 Split window seizing up solid every time the road grade
exceeded 3% for more than a mile or two on one trip 'around the West' from
Long Beach, Ca up the coast, across S. Canada and into Idaho and Montana,
ending in Jackson Hole, Wy.
No cell phones then, no internet..(Probably wouldn't have helped much
anyhow, that old 36hp motor always seized when it got hot, then just went
again after cooling down.) Timing the distributor with a Zig-Zag rolling
paper when you got to 'altitude'..put it between the points and rotate the
distributor till it came free....Getting our dinner in N. Idaho by hanging
out the side doors, armed with a bucket of rocks, nailing two large rooster
pheasants in the barrow pit as we "sped past", then pulling offthe road into
a potatoe patch and cooking em up with some Spuds...Ummmm, that was a good
dinner..
If you broke down back then, you didn't call AAA on your cell phone and
pay with your plastic...No, even getting cash money from Mommy and Daddy
(if Daddy still acknowledged his "Long-Hair faggot hippy son") was another
adventure...You had to hitch on to a sometimes even nearby city, one with a
Western Union office, then back to wherever your van was, bringing along the
necessary parts for your repair.
I guess it's all relative, though. Gasoline was just $.30 a gallon and we
still couldn't afford that ( and food and beer at the same time...) Back
then, though, you could always work...remember that? Jobs?..
A great thread, following these guys around (via the Vanagon List) as they
got their Bus Baptisim on the highway..
Don Hanson
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