We are getting to closer to committing to our plan of traveling the Southwest for approximately 4 weeks starting in mid-December. We are planning on shipping our van to the Seattle area next month and flying down to pick it up around December 15th. Several List Members have generously offered a place to store the van until we arrive and I hope to make the decision on which one will work best for all involved shortly. Once we arrive at the van we will load it and hit the road as we have to pick up our daughter at Humbolt State University on the 16th or 17th. We plan to travel south from Humbolt as stops at either(or both) Van Cafe or GoWesty are in order as the van needs new bumpers and maybe a few other items. From there we plan on being somewhere in Arizona most likely Tucson, Scottsdale, or Sedona by Christmas to be with family and/or friends. On the return leg of the trip we have to drop our daughter back at Humbolt, our 9yr old son at an airport for an escorted flight home, stash the van someplace in storage until Spring, and get on a flight to Las Vegas for a Conference. This will of course happen without a hitch as we all know that a Vanagon will never let its operator down nor leave them stranded on the side of a highway. If you were wandering the Southwest during this time of year where would you go and what would you do? I am also looking for one or more books I have seen mentioned on the List in the past that identified camping sites(BLM and others) etc. If anyone knows the titles of any of these books please let me know so I can track them down more easily. I had them at one time but they are lost to an old email address that i can no longer access. I would love to meet up along the way with some of the List members that I only know by their Posts so if anyone is interested drop me an email and we will see if the schedule works. TIA Mark in AK `87 Westy Syncro |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.