Mr. Squirrel, Have a great trip-we will mis-use! In the mean time, we will be saving up all our bad squirrel jokes, etc. for you when you get back to reality, I mean the list. If by chance MY wonders too far south, you have a driveway to crash in in Utah. YMMV, Mr. BZ-Bon voyage
On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > Volks, > > I'll be heading out of here early Wednesday morning to drop Mrs > Squirrel > off at Redmond airport then heading east by northeast to Flathead > Lake, > Montana. I'm going to be taking two night to get there, the better to > enjoy camping along the way, maybe a bit of kayaking if I can find a > nice tame flat lake to poot around in. > > I had my local mechanic, Steve of Steve's Place in Bend, give the > van a > pre-trip checkout, change the oil, tap on things. I know many of you > guys do your own servicing and would not trust a stranger to do the > work. I'm not as skilled as yinz, don't have the tools or place to do > the work, don't "feel" mechanical things very intuitively, so I rely > on > others for a lot of the work. > > I have a good spare tire, a printout of the relevant pages of the > Vanagon Rescue Squad, a functional triple-A "Plus" membership card, > and > some beer cooling in the Vitrifrigo. The Westrailia is packed with the > kayak strapped on top. I reckon I'm about as ready as I can be. > > I will be away from the Internet, mainly. The cabin has dial-up > service > only. I know you'll all miss me, but buck up: I'll be back. > > In the meantime, here's this: > > Giraffe walks into a bar. "The highballs are on me," he says. > > -- > Rocky J Squirrel > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) > Bend, OR > KG6RCR |
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