Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:41:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: "Thieves Cashing in on Stolen Clunkers in Germany" (shows a
              Vanagon being heisted)
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4A84D055.3080409@gmail.com>
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Shoot, pard...

  Yer out in the country now (Bend is country to a former 'fornian, right?)
Yuh gotta git a Stetson.  No body be mistaken you for a German in one a them
hats.
  It's almost Friday..so
  You do realize you can pretty much tell where a cowboy is from by the
shape of his hat, right?  Texans wear em one way, Wyoming 'pokes wear a
different roll and shape...and you NEVER touch a cowboy's hat in the bar,
lessen you are ready to fight.  What's this have to to with Germans and VW
vans?
    When I lived in Wyoming and worked as a Ski Patroller in Jackson Hole
for years we would do year long "Exchanges" with Austrian, French or German
ski patrollers from the Alps.   Exchange jobs and living situations for a
full season. We convinced Managment that this was a great opportunity to
learn from other Ski Patrols...
 I traveled to Telluride for a week-long exchange..same deal with domestic
areas..and I took along our French/German exchange patroller, Girard (and
his search dog, Rommel) ..from the Trois Valles (sp?).  He was fascinated
with the American west and was the one who actually pointed out to me that
the cowboys in Colorado wore their hats very differently than the Wyoming
cowboys...
I never really noticed before he pointed that out in Ouray in the beer
store..
  So, I actually did learn something from the Patrol exchange
program..(besides how to party like they do in Euro, or all across the other
western US ski resorts)
  Don Hanson
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/13/2009 5:09 PM Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>
> Sie müssen einen Hut immer tragen, wenn Sie Ihr Vanagon fahren!
>>
>
> No one tells me anything. Gotta get a damn hat, then.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>