Date:         Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:01:41 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Tobin T. Copley" <tobin@vcn.bc.ca>
Subject:      Re: Driving Westy to South America!

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Glen Buhlmann wrote:

> Jim Ellis wrote:
> > 
> > You guys are totally, outta your brain, NUTS!
> > -ellis\
> > 
> > >Hello all,
> > In mid-September 1996 four St. Francis Xavier University
> > >Students, Steve Dorey, Al Joseph, Brian Starzomski, and Mark Toth, will
> > >be leaving Nova Scotia for a nine month journey to Southern Chile (Tierra
> > >del Fuego).
> 
> Yeah, I'm almost as jealous as Rusty ;-)


Hmmm...  I actually was hoping we could treat the Inuvik trip as a 
warm-up to just such a journey!  Nuts?!  No way!  Why enslave ourselves 
to this non-existent notion of 'job security'?  Quit!  Sell the house!  
Cash out Tommy's college fund!  We could be laid off/bought out/forclosed 
upon next week, so why not launch a pre-emptive strike?: get in the 
bus and drive, baby, drive!

Other trips I've got in mind:
- The Kinshasa Highway across equitorial Africa
- Across the ex-USSR.  Container to Amsterdam, drive east, load bus into 
container at Vladivostok, come home.
- Circumnavigate Australia
- (possible addition to the USSR trip): south of Siberia to 
Mongolia/China, to Tibet, across the Himilayas to either India or 
Pakistan, and to whereevr from there!  (ship to Somalia to pick up 
Kinshasa Highway?)
- Back to Baja to free camp on a white sand beach and drink beer.

Tobin
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