Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:01:55 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: 972 Miles Later
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Rocket
I am stunned that you would talk with another westie owner while your
wife was involved in a store thatheld less speak for you.... Was it
the fear ------generated by reading the solo sailing story--- of them
finding the abandonded westie with no sign of you.
Rocket think about your loves ones and how much your dialiamce into
the romantic world of the splitties would devestate them ... Oh the
howwor ... As horshack used to say---
But seriously folks when my wife and I were just starting to court - I
used to cause her great concern as I went up to every westy I saw and
attemted to seduce. The owner I to marrying us both - together and
giving us the westy as a wedding present --- it never worked
My wife was mortified each and everytime
The n we got our own and soon she was hosting tours .... Proudly
talking all stuff vanagon ... At least ours
Is it friday yet
Yours
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 2010-09-15, at 7:47 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Addendum:
>
> On the way back through Portland, we stopped at the Bullseye Glass
> Company. Mrs Squirrel does fused glass and this is the local supply
> mecca for glass artists.
>
> While she was inside I sat in the open slider reading "Sailing Alone
> Around the World" by Joshua Slocum, when a woman walked up to admire
> Mellow Yellow. She was waiting for her husband to finish his shopping.
> She pointed out their '85 Weekender a few feet away.
>
> She said they've always loved Westies, having had a '64 for many, many
> years and only recently sold it to get the Vanagon version. It felt,
> she
> said, very modern compared with the splittie version, what with having
> some real brakes and other amenities.
>
>
>
>>> ----- 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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