Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:59:44 -0700
Reply-To: David Raistrick <keen@SLURPEE.NET>
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From: David Raistrick <keen@SLURPEE.NET>
Subject: Seattle to Augusta, The trip home. (fwd)
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[i've beeninformed that i DIDNt send this to the vanagon list,
sooooooo.....:)]
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:22:35 -0700
Well, you all heard the first half, now here is the last. (a little late,
but still..)
Arrived in Seattle (Bothell, really..) last monday (ok, monday before
last, maybe?)
Were told tuesday that there would only be 220$ to get us home. Damn
Travis..
Itchi only got ~15 mpg on the trip up there (which she has been getting
since i put this 30pict3 on it, to replace the 30pic1 with leaking
throttle shafts..), and cost ~230, 240$..
Wendsday, we decide to leave later that night. Try to contact my cousin,
so i can see him before i leave, but to no avail. Call a listee or two,
and only get more of seattle's voicemail system..(i rarly leave messsages,
sorry..Just the way i am..)
About 2 we hear the snow warnings for Snoqualmie pass...Our return trip
(the shortest, aka cheapest route)takes us through there, so we leave
ASAP.
Takes a few hours to reload the bus for 3, instead of two.
Leave Seattle ~5.30, (had to stop at 7-11 for more slurpee's, even though
it was cold outside...no 7-11s in GA!)
Make it through Snoqualmie, only encounter a bit of snow, none sticking,
and not much ice..
Stop to sleep, sometime, somewhere. Oregon, somewhere, maybe...Or maybe
we'd allready made it to I80 first...i dont recall..
Note: NO self serve gas in Oregon!! Voters..*sigh* So, no full fill ups
in OR, the lackeys couldnt figure it out..
In Nebraska, i thought about trying to find No Quarter (i have a vauge
notion of where in Beatrice he is..:), but it was 2 in the morning, so we
pressed on..
Hit KC by 9 saturday morning, HArrisonville by 9.30, and suprised dad..He
wasnt expecting us..
I checked email, slept, etc..Then, adjusted valves, brakes, put new points
in, changed oil....(got valves adjusted in Seattle, but not oil
changed...) Reset timing, too..
Played in dads shop, turned a wierd cylindrical object that has to be what
you get when you've driven to long, and start playing with a lathe...
Ate dinner with dad and pattie...
Left Sunday noonish, at john's insistance, (h wanted to get home, and go
ahead and finish getting his teeth fixed...*sigh* i wanted to stay longer,
see dad..)
Got home Monday morning, at some undetermined ttime. Maybe ~8?
I hit the couch at johns, and slept till noon, went home.
There. Thats it.
Sorry to you CA, Or, and WA listees that i didnt get to see....
Later...david..
PS: Itchi avg'd 13 mpg comming home, with worst being 11.7....had to
borrow 100 bucks from dad to get home....
--
David Raistrick '69 Westy-Itchigo keen@slurpee.net
in Augusta Ga
Mike West's Pushing Back the Darkness Series:
http://www.slurpee.net/~keen/west/darkness.html
The Turning 40 Nostalgic VW Service Tour, and Search for the Beginning of Wind
http://www.slurpee.net/~keen/charlie/charlie.html
