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Subject:Re: RoadHaus - New" Bus of the Week" Pictures
From:John Rodgers
Date:Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:45:29 -0500

Hey Larry Chase!!!!

Where are you currently on your Alaska Road Trip??

Just looking at the pictures of Seward, AK. Got awfully homesick..

There was a large and very famous oil painting that hung there in Seward
in a hotel/bar for years and years and years. It's image was on the
businesses business cards. It was a painting of an Alaska  woods scene,
and a Black Bear with cubs  surprising a trapper hankypanking with a
native girl behind a log .... breeches down, longhandles showing, bare
bottoms, etc, etc. yet no "Parts" exposed. Tastefully done, yet
expressing Alaska's more "Raw and Wild" years. I think the painting was
last at the Van Gilder Hotel there in Seward, but I can't remember for
sure, it's been so long ago since I saw it.

Anyway .... just wondered if you got a chance to see it.

Hope you are enjoying yourself. Love hearing about the "Far North!!"

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Birmiingham, AL
Larry Chase wrote:

>Volks,
>
>I'm honored to feature another beautiful Bus from our
>incredible community on the RoadHaus web site.
>
>Go to http://www.roadhaus.com/initial.htm
>
>Click on the "Van of the Week" to see:
>
>Owner - Alice Johnson's
>Year - 1975
>Model - Westfalia
>Color - Yosemite Yellow
>Name - "Der Vaders Wagen"
>
>Translation .. "The Fathers Wagon"
>in honor of her father who drove
>it for 25 years & 100,000 miles
>
>The last 12 years the bus was under a tarp in the back
>yard.
>
>A toast to the Bug Werks who helped Alice resurrect it
>mechanically, a toast to her daughter Jenni, who helped
>with moss removal and most of all a toast to Alice for
>bringing such a glorious Bus back to life.
>
>
>
>Larry Chase
>Email: RoadGuy@RoadHaus.com
>Web: www.RoadHaus.com
>Cell: 480 620 8966
>What: North American Road Trip
>How: RoadHaus - 1990 White VW Westfalia Syncro
>Today: Arizona
>
>
>