Hi gang,

     My apolgies to all of you and especially Tom Carrington (our faithful list
admin)
for those annoying automatic vacation messages my mail program was sending until
Tom set me to Nomail. I thought I'd done this correctly before I left ---
apparently not.

I just got back from 3 weeks touring the Canadian Maritime provinces along with
a brief
sojourn in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. My '84 Westy purred beautifully the
whole way.
The only glitch was the clutch slave cylinder started leaking laeding to
occasional wonkiness.
I had it replaced by Jeff Hogue of Shoal Cove Auto in Blandford, Nova Scotai. I
cannot speak
highly enough of Jeff --- he's on the Karl Bloss recommended mechanics list (am
I ever glad I
printed it off) and he is a vanagon guru and a really nice, helpful guy to boot.
Hopefully we'll be
hearing from him on the list soon!!! Incidentally, his business card reads
"Volkswagens always welcome,
even Vanagons" ---- and I'm not making that up.

I averaged  24.6 miles per CDN gallon (about 20.5 miles per US gallon) which I
thought was pretty
good given a heavy load (canoe, wife two kids, dog, two bikes etc) and generally
very hilly terrain.

Saw lots of Westies and some really nice Vanagons. I'll note that a Vanagon is
very rare here in
Toronto and one in good shape is really rare. Nice to see! I spread the list
gospel whenever I could.

Cheers,
Doug
'84 Westy
Toronto, Canada