Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:10:49 -0700
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: 972 Miles Later
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Glad to hear /read you all arrived sound and fit
Sent from my iPhone...
There must be a lifetime of thought in the last second if we are to
live from moment to moment.
On 2010-09-14, at 6:48 PM, Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> How many editions of this book are out there; has it been updated? I
> checked
> on amazon and it runs from 39 cents to 999.00 dollars for a copy!!!
> Courtney
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Always be yourself, because the people that matter don't mind,
> and the ones who mind, don't matter.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:41 PM
> Subject: 972 Miles Later
>
>
>> We're back. Our northwestern Oregon trip, from Bend to the coast at
>> Newport, up the coast to Astoria, then east to Portland, The Dalles,
>> then south to Maupin, and then finally back to Bend, finished this
>> afternoon. 972 miles, all told, as many as possible on backroads
>> (Eric
>> Tollander's Backroads of Oregon was our guide, thank you Al Knoll,
>> for
>> turning me on to that book), up hill and down dale, meandering where
>> possible, rushing at interstate speed where unavoidable, and all
>> without
>> a hiccup.
>>
>> The symptom I was dealing with last month (brief, recurring, loss of
>> power when climbing steep hills in hot weather) did not occur. The
>> only
>> difference between then and now is it was about 10 to 15 degrees
>> hotter
>> then than it was this time, the cover to my AFM had come loose and
>> there
>> quite a bit of dust in there, and I was pulling my trailer. This time
>> the AFM was clean and sealed, and no trailer. Mellow Yellow pulled up
>> steep grades at 4,000 rpm in 1st and 2nd gear quite handily on this
>> trip.
>>
>> What we learned:
>>
>> Oregon's state parks are like California's: overcrowded, sites packed
>> next to each other like sardines, overly-manicured, and full. People
>> apparently like to crowd, and apparently want lawns outside their
>> 40-foot campers to walk their little yappy dogs on.
>>
>> Washington's parks may be nicer: visited Cape Disappointment state
>> park
>> in Wash., and it was not quite as cheek-by-jowl nor as city-park
>> tidy as
>> those in Cali and Ore.
>>
>> In one central coast town, one can apparently camp overnight right on
>> the frickin' beach. I mean, right down there, facing the water, with
>> nothing but a hundred feet or so of flat sand beach between your
>> van and
>> the surf. This we learned after staying the night at the town's one
>> inn.
>> Five or so vehicles, including a Vanagon Westy, stayed the night.
>> Sigh.
>> Next time!
>>
>> There is also free camping on beaches along the Columbia River,
>> between
>> Portland and Astoria.
>>
>> There were many Westies to be spotted. Ranging from a couple
>> splitties,
>> several bay windows, and quite a number of Vanagons.
>>
>> --
>> 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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