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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:18:37 +0000
Reply-To:     Bill Shawley <easywind1975@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Bill Shawley <easywind1975@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Trip Report of Sorts
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Thought I'd share more so because I'm still basking in the glow of a great time.

Left Johnstown, PA early on Thursday to catch Phish at Darien Center, NY. Trucked up 219 which is quite a cowpath through parts of PA but a good fit speedwise for the Vanagon. About a 5 hour ride all together and we hunt for a campground somewhere past Simpsonville, NY. Found and RV resort that was about to turn us away since we didn't have an RV, oddly my wife stood our ground and got us a site for $30. (The state park had been sold out for weeks). Head the rest of the way to the park/ampitheater and park the van. Close the curtains, change clothes and off for a day of discount rides on the amusement park side. Our buddy texts us at 5:30 to say he's in the lot and we return to the van, pop the top open the screens, spin the seat, put on the fans, and wait on Steve. It was steaming hot that day but we had the coolest little drinking den in the Westy. Several folks dropped by to check things out and speak Vanagon with us, (my wife even kept company of the onlookers while we were off hunting). Met two really cool guys, I don't know if they're list members or not, but the one has a 84 or so awaiting a Subie conversion, talked to them for awhile and hooked em up with ice. After a great show we return to the van and traffic is crazy....we retreat to the bed and take a nap for an hour and wake up to see traffic moving. We pull out and head the 35 minutes to our campground, about 10 miles out I hit a DUI checkpoint, ughh..... Who wants to hit one of these in VW van after a Phish show? Cool cop, easy questions, where you coming from, where you going, anything to drink? "Concert, campground on 16, yes before show around 6", have a good night and off the sleepy time. Woke up to a very friendly neighbor who probably thought we were the biggest assholes, as I'm not a big talker after a long day of drinking, dancing, amusement park, and soberin' up. While I was showering he chatted up my wife a little and when he found where we were and what not he got grin on his face an got it.

The point, I don't use the van much for travelling but everytime I do it doesn't let me down. Drives like a dream, hauls a lot of shit, and best of all my wife learned to drive it on the way back. Nice 90 minute nap in the back on the way home. If you chatted up a chipper guy in a white westy with burgundy canvass, that was me, nice to me ya.

Ryan

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