Date:         Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:44:30 -0400
Reply-To:     Jamie Auch <jamie@KOOKYMATHTEACHER.COM>
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From:         Jamie Auch <jamie@KOOKYMATHTEACHER.COM>
Subject:      Re: It's A Sickness, I Tell You...
Comments: To: J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
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I knew you could t stay out of it!  We miss you at campouts.
Welcome back!

-Jamie Auch


On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:49 PM, J Stewart wrote:

> In December of 2008 I sold my '84 Westy (purchased from original
> owners grand daughter for $1,200.00 w/ a seized motor) Out of 9
> buses I've owned this was by far the best. It had the gas heater. I
> sold it on Ebay, and I was so filled with regret the day the buyer
> flew in to pick it up I almost sabotaged the engine and was going
> pay the buyers airfare back home. But I didn't, and I stood there
> wondering what the hell had I done as I watched him drive off. I
> swore I was never going to buy another Vanagon again. For months
> after that I kept meaning to unsubscribe from the list, but I just
> couldn't.Two week later I bought a used 1995 Chevy Winnebago camper.
> I sold that and bought a 1996 AWD Safari. Just an hour ago the buyer
> of the Safari drove off. I didn't even watch it go. Sure, it was a
> good van, probably run a bazillion miles with no troubles. But it
> wasn't a Vanagon. I'm miserable when I own a Vanagon, more miserable
> when I don't. Soooooo, now I am in the market for another Vanagon, a
> Westy, pretty much from '84 up. No diesels. I'm in N. Virginia,
> about 50 miles west of Washington DC, and thanks to Craigslist and
> The Samba, I pretty much know whats for sale within 300 miles of me,
> so far I haven't seen anything that really interests me. My budget
> is about $5,000.00. <SIGH> I can't believe I am going to buy another
> one! Jeff
>
>
>
> Jeff Stewart