I spent 10 years in the Navy and 12 years in the Reserves. I've owned my
Vanagon for 14 years.

Les

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Pedersen, Michael
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 2:26 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Van/squid connection...

 On 17 May, Holly and Chris Mills wrote "Also spent 3 years in Italy where
we always had a few unregistered cars on the road. That's life with $14K a
year Navy pay."

 On 18 May David Beierl wrote "But a couple fellow sailors in Pensacola back
in '70 did that and got mugged, and if my foggy memory is correct, the
muggers went off with their car, leaving them with the broken one.  Of
course that may have been a sea story to escape the consequences of being
late for duty; I knew the people but not the circumstances."

I myself did 11 years in the US navy (submarines).  Is there some connection
between Westfalias and ex-squids?  Maybe it's wanderlust...or the constant
maintenance...or maybe just living in a confined area... Any ideas? How many
of you are out there?

Happy Friday!  Long weekend in Canada...
Mike Pedersen
'88 \X/ Westie GL Automatic