Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:47:29 -0800
Reply-To: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: [F] My first Vanagon and my love affairs to date
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> Keep coming back, all of you Vanaholics! Hope your next year is even
> better than this year!
Gary
>
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:37:11 +0000
> From: Melissa Mourkas <westywoman@MAC.COM>
> Subject: [F] My first Vanagon and my love affairs to date
>
> I am a Vanaholic and my name is Melissa.
>
> My first Vanagon Westy was a 1985 GL that I purchased in 1989 from an RV d=
> ealer, who referred to it as a "coach" during our test drive. It had 65K o=
> n the clock and I had no idea what I was in for in the way of repairs in t=
> he future. For the time, I was in love. I installed a new overhead door on=
> my garage so I could just barely get the van into the garage. Here's the =
> romantic, fun part: I used to pour myself a scotch, and go into the garage=
> and sit in my Westy. I was so crazy in love with the thing. Not to mentio=
> n the fun times jet-skiing, camping etc, etc.
>
> That van went to graduate school and back with me and then I sold her to a=
> German man with a nice fedora in 1995. Life circumstances dictated that I=
> need a different vehicle. I won't bore you with the details of my struggl=
> es with maintaining that van prior to the existance of an online Vanagon c=
> ommunity.
>
> I bought an air-cooled '81 Vanagon Westy from my brother 3 years later bec=
> ause I couldn't stand it anymore and he gave me a good deal. I explored th=
> e USA with that Westy for over 10 years. Then I kicked her to the curb in =
> a fit of frustration one day in May, 2009. Too much money to maintain, air=
> -cooled tough in hot Sacramento summers, etc=E2=80=A6I thought I would ent=
> er a new world of travel through bed & breakfasts and proper hotels.
>
> That lasted 8 weeks. I found a beauty of a Westy ('84) in So Cal in July, =
> 2009 and plunged right back in. No stopping me now. They don't call me Wes=
> tywoman for nothing.
>
> Cheers, fellow addicts! Celebrate, do not apologize! May the wind be at yo=
> ur back and the turbulent buffeting from the trucks be minimal!
>
> Melissa
> '84 Westy Honey Bee=EF=BB=BF
> Sacramento, CA
> www.westywoman.com
>
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