Got back home yesterday at 2 pm !  Long trip  home, visiting a cousin in
Raleigh, getting Rita & Ina to the beach on the  Outer Banks, getting a speeding
ticket in Delaware on the way to Long Island  to see Tim's Carat that I will be
buying, taking the ferry off Long Island  to Bridgeport to avoid the traffic
mess going back "the other way", then having  the boot between the air filter
and throttle body pop off after a gas stop  causing the van to lurch and
stumble into heavy traffic....pretty scary  there......had to unload all the
luggage to get to that one....easy fix  though and then back North to the
Aderondacks where there was still ice &  snow.....where were my socks ??.....after
having spent the previous night in New  Jersey where the temps went up to 90 !  The
Westy with Boston Bob's Big  Valve Engine and performanced chipped computer's
first real road  trip, performed very well and YES the oil pressure is good
now, 37 lbs at  4000 rpm when hot, after switching to 5w50 Mobil 1 before
setting out.  Nwly painted Carat wheels and new Euro Metric Radial tires obtained
from Chris  worked just fine.  Unknown Euro Metric Radials that were on the
alloys seem to work good on a loaded to the gills Westy under all  conditions I
put them through.  Little noisy compared to my previous  Michelins though.
Big time congratulations to Chris and all his  gang for a great event.  Those
if you who missed _EB04_ (http://www.everybus.com/) , you'd better get there
next year  !  Too bad my door prizes got lost but an e-mail message from Judy
yesterday saying they were finally found in her van was good.  They will be
used at the next event !  Great to meet so many whom I've communicated with
over the years on the Lists !  Joy, who's getting her van together for  a great
adventure, Larry who's on an adventure and is "The" adventure, I like  the
shower set-up !  Karl's really bright blue fridge light.  AJ and  all who helped
with his engine problems providing the "Real" reality show.   Rita & Ina who
went thru a bottle of Vodka Thursday  evening......hummmmmmm!  Ina who kept
hounding me all day Friday to fix her  van's stuttering problem, turned out to
be a bad fuel pressure regulator.   Thanks to Jamie who had the bright idea to
pinch the return hose and boost the  pressure and that temporarily fixed the
regulator for some unknown  reason until Ina got a new one.  I installed it for
her over on the  beach on the Outer Banks.....how did we got ll the way over
there ?????? that's  a whole 'nother story.  The Potts Family camp......wow !
Us Canadians  showed-em how to travel.  We had a large contingency, taking up
one entire  corner of the campground and some of us even sang  "O Canada" at
the  Saturday nite door prize draw festivities.  Richard Palmer for making a
really great T-shirt, hope you & Krispy Kreme don't get into a battle  !  The
people who brought the Vanagon Syncro Double Cab Hunter model  pulling the
Westfalia travel trailer.....way too cool.  The fellow with the  '80 Vanagon with
1.6 l air-cooled engine, RH drive, cable clutch and  Ireland camper
conversion by "Spacemaker", talk about different !  Ben (The  Corrupter) for showing us
all that it's not that far from Montreal to  Everybus.... he and Larry make a
good couple !!  Lousie for  helping diagnose the problem with Ina's bus and
playing good guitar and  mandolin with the Bluegrass band Saturday night.
Gerry for being a really  bad music stand..... drink less and you'll hold te book
steadier next time  !  The cooks who made the Friday & Saturday morning
breakfasts......yum......overload.....next time the tortillas need to be WAY
bigger !  George for being George.  Andre with his newly Subie powered  '87 Syncro
on its maiden voyage.....without problems I heard last nite !!   And, all the
others you know who you are.
As Ben said, hope to see you all at _BusFusion_
(http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)  here in  Almonte in June for more good times !
Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
_BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)  a VW Camper
camping event, Almonte, ON, June 10 ~ 13, 2004
'87 Westy & Lionel  Trains
Member: _Vanagon List_ (http://www.vanagon.com/) , _LiMBO_
(http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/) , _IWCCC_ (http://www.westfalia.qc.ca/)  & _CCVWC_
(http://www.ccvwc.ca/)
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in  the Ottawa Valley
_STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel  Mufflers_
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_Frank Condelli &  Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html)
or  http://frankcondelli.com