Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:17:12 -0400
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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I have never noticed that my camper smells like smoke after campfires,
even when the weather is wet.  Partly that may be due to accommodation,
but I would think that if I have the fire, drive home, park the van for
a couple of days, it is rainy, and I open the door, if the smell was
there, I'd get it.  Maybe I am just insensitive to that smell, but my
clothes do retain it, and when I wash them several days after the fire,
I can smell it on them as I put them in the washer.

Dave Mc


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> Arranging 8 kids and 2 dogs and a fire under/in a Shady Boy and a van
> musta took some doing. Did the van smell like smoke the rest of the
> year?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 10/12/2009 5:30 PM Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>
>> Once in the Mannistee Nat'l Forest - 2nd day of two-tracking, it
>> began to
>> rain shorty after breakfast.  4 adults, 4 kids, 2 dogs.  We sat under
>> the
>> Shadyboy in a soft rain (most of the day.  Had a nice little fire
>> that kept
>> going in the rain, smoke going the other way.  Had a nice Monopoly
>> game,
>> beers, lunch.  Kids played cards in the bus, parents sat out under
>> the
>> awning.  Have not been able to repeat that as our kids moved into the
>> teenage years, the rain made it really difficult to keep them
>> interested.
>>
>> Pete
>> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
>> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
>> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Jake de Villiers