Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:01:32 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: mini-adventure: Westy propane at U-Haul
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You want a *Real Adventure* in propane? You should try going to the Gas
Central in La Paz, BCS, Mexico...
Wow! Propane is the fuel of choice for cooking in Baja and it's not given
the 'US lawyer's' regulation-treatment there. So you pull up to a busy
loading dock, about 10 guys on a raised platform full of pipes and valves,
about 10meters by ten meters.....or if you have the built-in under your van
tank, you get in line with a bunch of Gringos with trailers and motorhomes.
You watch all kinds of rusty big tanks and bottles emerge from various
pickups, 54 Chevys, mazda trunks, Beetle back seats, etc. They get tossed
up onto this big high platform where the men are filling and you watch em
try to find an adaptor for that particular type filler...then they fill and
stick the thing on a scale like you saw in the Ice House and toss it back to
you..or roll it off the dock into the pickup or the trunk of the passenger
vehicle...".Clang! Bang! Gracias, Amigo!" The houseflys find the smell of
Propane (or Gas, as it is called in Spanish) very attractive, so the whole
gas works is crawling and buzzing with them...The gal who takes the money in
the office, she is a trip! Silver fingernails and Gold rim
sunglasses...bright red hair and lips...no eye contact at all, ever.
Vanagon content? All along Baja Highway 1 are burned-out Vanagon
bodies...about every 50kms or so there is a rusty old shell...Guess they
don't have a Vanagon list to warn them to "Change your fuel lines"...
Don Hanson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:
> The adventure was getting the propane and meeting a VW nut. Last time I
> tried to get propane was in an extremely crowded KOA in central Maryland on
> a Labor Day weekend and was actually more of an adventure since three guys
> among them spilled a bunch and never did figure out how to fill the tank.
> They scared the bejesus out of me. Today was much better, as far as I'm
> concerned. Boring is fine.
>
> Stephen
>
> --- On Tue, 6/29/10, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: mini-adventure: Westy propane at U-Haul
> To: "Stephen Grisanti" <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 12:09 PM
>
>
> At 09:13 AM 6/29/2010 Tuesday, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> > Andre confirmed he had worked with Westies before. Quick and painless,
> the trick to filling with the AutoStop valve is to open the overfill relief
> ALL THE WAY as the written instructions indicate but which previous fillers
> evidently did not do.
>
> So where's the adventure? People who read and follow instructions often
> lead a boring life, or so some would say. ;-)
>
> Yours,
> d
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