Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:05:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Like an Old pair of Jeans
Comments: To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
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On 8/27/2009 7:27 AM Jeff Lincoln wrote:

> That being said my friend Tim is letting me borrow his '85 GL, Rerun, for
> the time being (because Grover is my daily driver). It so happens that Rerun
> was my first Vanagon. It was kind of nice driving that bus again - and as
> the subject line says, it is kind of like an old pair of favorite jeans. It
> was comforting - espescially since I haven't been a real happy guy since
> Grover took ill.

Last month a whole bunch of Mrs Squirrel's friends and family visited us
here in Bend. I wasn't driving at the time and gave permission to loan out
Mellow Yellow a couple times for general transport. The van wasn't getting
driven a lot with me crippled up, and I figured that letting it sit, like,
forever, wasn't a good idea.

When I got behind the wheel a couple weeks ago I noticed that things ...
weren't right. Just little oddnesses in the vehicle's behavior. Shortly
after being driven by me, they smoothed out. Mrs Squirrel says that the
van missed its daddy.

Did Rerun need a little familiarization with you?

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR