Those "love bugs" are bad news for a Vanagon (or anything else on the
highway for that matter.)  I drove through a swarm of them in South
Louisiana a couple of years ago and they covered the whole front of mine; I
could barely see through the windshield.

I stopped about thirty miles later at a car wash and sprayed and scrubbed
the front end, but it was already too late--I was never able to fully remove
the smudge stains from of the paint, bumper, or even the license plate.
When I got back to Denver a few weeks later, I called Ron and got a nose
bra...

Joe T.
Denver, CO
'85 GL 'Bertha'
'66 Westy

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Reply-To: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: The truth about Florida
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:23:07 -0500

The truth about Fla.?

You are food for everything that crawl's, swims, and flies---

Be sure toinstall a bug screen on your grill's---it's just about "Love
Bug" season, and these black and orange in flight coitus maxiumus things
will plug upyour radiator faster than you can say Jackie Robinson---yor
windsheild will be loaded with them, so siight out the glass will be
impared---

Oh- Yea--I think this is just about when the land crabs start migrating
towards the ocean--don't run any of these bugger's over, as they will
poke a hole through your tire's  real quick----

Better have real good sceens on you Van too---the no seeum's will bite
the hell out of you, whlie your napping---

If you go for a dip in the ocean, or gulf coast---be sure to look to
shore once in awhile--look for the red flags they will ocassionally all
of a sudden put up on the beach----
I had no idea what in the hell this meant, until somebody yelled "Shark"
!!!

Oh--one more thng---keep an eye on the weather channel--I think this is
Hurricane season--better buy some hurricane straps for your van to keep
it planted to the ground----

Yea, I liked Fla.-----

I got the hell out of there --got tired of being eaten the
critter's---and getting blown around---

Later,

Terry

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Subject: The truth about Florida

Can someone tell me about Florida weather. I' m thinking of going there.
Someone told the weather doesn't really get hot until July and August.
Someone else told me, no, its bad right now (May); another said June was
when it got real bad. So whats the scoop?
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