Date:         Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:18:58 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Home after 4950 miles..
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Yeah, I secretly hate reading Don's posts because they make me feel like a slacker for going to work instead of lighting out for the territories.  That Westy at home is just going to waste.
Stephen

--- On Fri, 3/8/13, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Home after 4950 miles..
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, March 8, 2013, 2:42 PM

sounds like a great trip, Don.  I'm envious.  mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> ...trouble-free.   A 9-week winter trip to the Southwest US for some sun
> and bicycling.  As usual for this trip, (4th time in this van, I think)  my
> 84 5sp inline VW powered van ran great, giving me about 22 mpg most of the
> time at my normal cruising speeds of around 65mph.   Only thing that I
> bought for the van was a replacement for my NAPA coach battery which was
> starting to lose it's ability to deliver power for my laptop and sat radio,
> etc.    $21 for that, pro rated.
>
>   Gasoline was pricey in California, about $.25/gal cheaper in Oregon on
> the return trip.   I had a beautiful drive home on Hwy 395, with a stop
> near Bishop, California to ride the kinks out of my legs.   I was racing to
> beat a Pacific storm coming in, almost got caught near Bodie, California
> when a heavy snow flurry came in, but luckily, I was over the pass heading
> downhill.   Another flurry this AM near Bend, Or and some freezing
> fog...but otherwise an easy trip.   Slept a few hrs last night near
> Summerlake in eastern Or. and was serenaded by a couple of hooting owls and
> some sandhill cranes out on the lake shore...
>
>    this is what I have my faux Westie for.
>
>   Don Hanson

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David McNeely