That's great, John.  I just gotta get up there for some real R&R!
TEMiller

John Rodgers wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I don't mean to do a "One Up" on Mark, but your comment aobut the coor
> to be found in Alaska made me thik that Mark didn't even begin to give
> you an inkling of the color in names to be found up in Alaska. How
> about "Mr. Whitekeys Club and The Whale Fat Follies!!"(Anchorage) or
> perhaps the "Malemute Saloon" (Fairbanks), or perhaps "Skinny Dick's
> Hald-way Inn" about half way between Fairbanks and Nenana on the Parks
> Highway going down to Mt. Mckinley Parh, or perhaps the "Salty Dawg
> Saloon" down at Honer out on Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay. There use to
> be " the Birdhouse Bar" just out of Anchorage on Turnagain Arm out
> near a place called Indian. The original bar burned some years ago but
> it was wood slab lumber building with a big ugly blue bird head and
> neck sticking out front. Interior walls were covered with business
> cards and the ceiling was decorated with the hanging panties of
> visiting ladies! There were many more which are long gone into
> antiquity but there are still a few survivors. There are some that put
> on a tourist front as soon as the toruism season arrives and convert
> back to homegrown Alaskan as soon as the last tourist departs. Real
> Alaskans always like to see the tourists arrive with their boosting of
> the local economies, but they are also glad to see the last tourist
> headed south too, so fthey can get back to living like real Alaskans.
>
> BTW, would you have any idea what happiness was to a real Alaskan back
> in the Alaska Pipeline Days - the 1970's??
>
> It was a pointy-toed Texan headed south with an Oakie under each arm!!
>
> Not to slam on Texans and Okies to hard, you understand. Real Alaskans
> just felt over-run with oil country folk!! :-)
>
> Anyway, I lived up there for 30 years myself, and if there is one
> thing I have learned about the country, it is that if you have live
> there for two years, your feet are frozen in it forever - (your heart
> is always there, no matter where you are).
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> Chelsea, AL
>
>
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> Tom Miller wrote:
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>> Moose's Tooth? :))  You guys are so colorful up there.  Makes me wanna
>> drive to AK sometime in the future, when I can take 4-6 weeks to do it.
>> TEMiller
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>> Mark Tuovinen wrote:
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>>> H Bryan,
>>>
>>> I live in Anchorage, and have for the last 35+ years.  My wife and I
>>> own an 87 Westy Syncro, and I am currently looking in to purchasing
>>> a 7 pass. Syncro for my daily driver.  Give me a call sometime and
>>> we can hook up over at Moose's Tooth.  There are several other
>>> locals who monitor the list that might be willing to join us as well.
>>>
>>> Mark in AK  - Ph: 240-7081
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Bryan Duggan <bduggan@MINDSPRING.COM>
>>> Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 3:28 pm
>>> Subject: Anchorage AK westfalia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm up in the Motherland of Alaska to do some climbing and
>>>> breathing when out of the blue on a side street corner of
>>>> Anchorage I spot a beautiful 1990 westy. Naturally i investigate.
>>>> I am not suprised to find a vanagon in Alaska, but I am surprised
>>>> to find a mere 86,000 miles on her.
>>>>
>>>> "GOD! when can I have a vanagon like this?" I say to myself
>>>> staring at the beautifully immaculate upholestry.
>>>>
>>>> well cared for, all stock (except the unknown 14" rims). What else
>>>> can I say?
>>>>
>>>> Anyone on the list own this gem? Any Alaskans driving vanagons up
>>>> here on the list?
>>>>
>>>> Would love to see your vanagon!
>>>>
>>>> Missing my 89 Taj westfailia,
>>>> Bryan Duggan
>>>> bduggan@mindspring.com
>>>>
>>>> Taj 89 westy
>>>> 86 Syncro
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