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Date:         Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:21:20 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Home after 4950 miles..
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CAHTkEu+uSpOY4mqocCBEz-VgCmt7gut-UfZXfTToU+n+_x4ggw@mail.gmail.com>
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I understand that it is a working vacation, but I also have carpentry tools and would love the opportunity to schlep them halfway across the country in order to hang out and/or use those tools to help pay for the trip. Dude, it's ENVY.  Plain and simple, and bright, bright green.  Just to have that time, is the issue. Wall Street done a lot of retirements wrong, but I won't go into that.  Glad you had a good trip. Stephen

--- On Fri, 3/8/13, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Home after 4950 miles.. To: "Stephen Grisanti" <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Date: Friday, March 8, 2013, 6:46 PM

   For your information.....I have, along on these trips, perhaps 500lbs of carpenter's tools in 3 chests, plus a small table saw and some big clamps.  My Van weighed 5000lbs last year,  on one of those drive on scales with all my work stuff.   I did a small project for a friend while I was "on vacation" and that paid for my fuel, down and back this year..   When I get to my 'home away from home' I have to pull all those tools outside, or find a place to stash everything  to have a real camper...but I can, with a bit of experience now, still use the Vanagon when traveling, with all that crap is inside...I just have to move things around and step on tool chests all the time.  A short camping trip, that is easy....an extended winter long working vacation?...that takes a bit more planning, but I manage somehow...    Now if it hadn't been for Wall Street...my "retirement" wouldn't have me packing my tools around in an antique vanagon and taking 'working vacations'....but you play the cards you are dealt, and I'm considering myself pretty lucky to be healthy and able.   Cheers, Don Hanson

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote: 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 -- David McNeely


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