Date:         Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:17:16 -0600
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From:         ralph meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Versatile Vanagon opens MoHo owner's eyes
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With a little peer pressure we can open the blind eyes to the abilities of
Vanagons/Westy. All the fun but in a small package!

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
On Jan 18, 2014 10:03 AM, "dhanson928@gmail.com" <dhanson928@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I took a bike-buddy for a day trip in my  84 tintop with most of a Westie
> interior yesterday.  They have a 2nd home on a golf course here in the
> California desert, travel in a top-tier motorcoach (39' two pop-outs) pull
> a jeep and leave a Buick SUV here when at their San Juan Island house.
>    But Rich has no bike rack, and we wanted to drive up into the mountains
> to Julian, Ca. to ride around a 50 mile loop, so we took my van....after
> Rich assured me that he didn't mind dog hair.
>   Up a very twisty road to the mt. Tourist town of Julian, where we parked
> on the mainstreet,  changed, filled our waterbottles and went for the ríde.
>  Came in, rinsed-off from the sink, went out to lunch, then returned via
> the other road to our desert town, again on a steep and twisting highway
> with many 15mph corners.  Drove about 80 miles, used just over 3 gals of
> gas, sat around in the Vanagon,  comfortably B.S.ing for a bit...Took a
> short off-road excursion to a desert overlook .
> My buddy told me he was way surprised at how he had just spent part of his
> day driving around the mountains and hanging out in a 30yr old VW van, and
> he LIKED IT, a lot!
>
> Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint!
>
>