Date:         Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:54:34 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         bighouse@socomm.net (Ken Hooper)
Subject:      Heading off again.


I'm forwarding this. Reply to the author.


>Hi,
>        (would you mind posting this for me sans crap trailers,
>         to both the vanagon & type2 lists)
>
>Reply-To: W.Warburton@ed.ac.uk
>
>        Sorry about the last message to type2 about border crossings, I
>forgot to get it forwarded to remove the trailers.
> This is another "farewell for now" message (like the one I sent out a
>couple of years back when I set off for Latin America.) Judy and I are off
>again- this time around Asia after a couple of months in NZ & Oz.
> Hopefully I'll get back online sometime next year, in which case I'll see
>you then (probably on four lists by then- one each for the basic body
>styles- with a raging argument about whether to split vanagon@lenti for
>air & watercooled vanagons to cut down the traffic...!).
> We are taking our '68 Dormobile off to the South Island for a month before
>leaving NZ. After that we'll have to sell it (sob) but I'll let the new
>owner know you're here- say hello if he drops by :-). I heard that Grandpa,
>the Westy I had in Scotland, is still alive and well and that the current
>owner may sell him back to me when I return (a possible base for the
>PorscheBus project, though currently lacking servo brakes :-(  ).
> I'm sorry I didn't send off a trip report from the American leg of our
>trip- It would have been in the middle of the bandwidth debate, quite long
>and without much VW content so I kept putting it off and now have no time.
> I would recommend anybody who isn't too uptight to go and travel the
>world, it's been an amazing trip so far and well worth it. We met people
>travelling with kids of all ages, mortgages, jobs waiting for them or not
>and none of them had regretted leaving home. Go for it! The world isn't
>as dangerous and unpleasant as the government would have you believe!
>
> Anyway, I'm preaching again, arn't I <embarrassed grin>. Thanks again
>for your help, advice and support in all things aircooled. Hope to catch
>up again soon!
>
>Cheers,
>        W.