Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:02:39 -0400
Reply-To: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Idea about going to warmer climate for winter and servicing
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Dake
Are you making a dog leg to Watkins glen? Westies at Watkins is next weekend.
Joel
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On Sep 14, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Ken,
> I'm leaving Maine within the hour headed for Florida. Probably won't stay all winter - I'd miss the snow, wind & sub-zero temps too much. Warm winters are such a foreign concept to me.
> Actually I'm visiting my father & hope to be back in Maine in a month or so.
>
> Perhaps I'll see you along the way.
>
> Dake
> Sent from Wu-Wei on the road
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2013, at 11:30, David Bjorkman <ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh No, Ken, don't leave, I need some parts.
>> Oh well, abandoned in the Northeast again. Just wait 'til summer, then you'll be sorry you left the wonderful (?) and varied change of seasons we have up here:-). Especially in the winter when we need work and do not want to climb under our frozen slush covered undercarriage.
>>
>> Dave B.
>>
>> On 09/14/13, kenneth wilford (Van-Again)<kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>>
>> I am super busy here in NJ working on Vanagons and Westies for customers.
>> However the dreaded winter is coming and even though I have a heated shop,
>> etc. I really would like to go somewhere that is nice and warm outside
>> during the winter months, yet still help customers and work on Vanagons for
>> them. I had been tossing this idea around in my mind for a few days and
>> trying to figure out how it could happen when I got a call from a customer
>> in Hawaii. He tells me that in Oahu that there are tons of Vanagons and
>> only one trusted mechanic that can work on them. He is super booked up
>> (sounds familiar) so the customer suggested I could come out there and be
>> as busy as I would want to be repairing vans. Of course it is never that
>> simple. I have a wife and four kids so I would need air fare and also a
>> place to stay while I am there and a shop to work out of or use as a home
>> base.
>>
>> I am also thinking that Florida might be a good choice for this idea since
>> all of the motorhomes go south for the winter.
>>
>> I am just putting this idea out there. Anyone on the list give me a way to
>> make my dream of a "no winter", winter actually come to pass?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wilford
>> John 3:16
>> www.vanagain.com
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