Date:         Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:54:07 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday Philosophy: On Community
Comments: To: Jarrett Kupcinski <kupcinski@GMAIL.COM>
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Absolutely correct insight.  A community of lunatics that keeps doing the
same thing over and over again hoping the results will be different.

My kids managed to avoid catching this disease, unlike you!   We had great
times travelling in our '68 Westy starting when they were both toddlers, and
it continued until they were in their mid-teens with my '84 Westy.  Later
they would each borrow the '84 for their own local trips, but now they
wonder what I was thinking when I bought my "new" '85 last year, figuring
I'm in my dotage and should simply be humored.

For them it's now using friend's timeshares, exotic travel, and a once a
year family camping trip with us in our van, one family in a tent and the
other in a sailboat moored at Fort Flagler (only place I've found in
Washington where we can do that).

I don't blame them.  I sold the '84 because it was underpowered and horrible
to drive, and bought an EVC. That was a great driver, but a money pit and
inferior camper, and now I'm back to a gutless '85 that is horrible to
drive.  I can only hope the Subaru conversion will make it more tolerable.
If not, maybe the future Ford Transit conversions will be sensible:
http://westfalia-ford.co.uk/elevated%20roof/index.html  $46,000 base price
in Britain. I wonder what Sportsmobile or Roadtrek would charge for theirs.

Stuart

Jarrett wrote:

......I'll admit my bias here: I grew up with VW campers, and so I own one
now. Because I own one, I like hanging out with folks share that lunacy. . .
.

Jarrett K
Olly, 89 Westy made up of parts, parts, parts=