well, this is all very convincing.  How do I find out about these "pods"?

On 5/22/05, Oxroad@aol.com <Oxroad@aol.com> wrote:
>  
>  
> In a message dated 5/21/2005 4:31:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> detroit.bus@GMAIL.COM writes: 
> contents of our one-bedroom apartment. I figure it will take about two
> Vanagon-loads 
>  
>   
> TWO VANAGON LOADS! You must have one of the biggest on-bedrooms in New York
> City. 
>   
> Here's my advice. Ease up on the Coffee. You're gonna have to learn to relax
> if you want to survive in LA. 
>   
> If you're gonna pull a trailer to be fair to your economic configuration and
> factor in the cost of the new transmission, installed somewhere around Vail,
> CO. A fully loaded bus with a fully loaded trailer--small or not--and an 18
> year old  tranny with 156K, spells "bring it on." 
>   
> The other scenario is no good either unless you're dying to drive 12,000
> miles and log in a minimum of 240 hours behind the wheel. If you dying to be
> in your bus for that long, just hurry out here. Because in LA you'll spend
> every waking moment in your car--except when you're underneath it trying to
> undo what city driving has contaminated. 
>   
> Get a pod. Ship all your stuff out. Take time to drive the country leasurely
> since you have time before your job starts. Stop in Montana and Wyoming--see
> the medicine wheel in Big Horn National Forest. See the site of the
> concentration camp from WWII for Asians outside Cody, WY. Stop in Boulder,
> CO and hit Conor O'neills Pub or the Walnut Grill.  See the family in
> detriot. Get a picture with the largest ball of string. Eat at Bob's in
> Sturgus, SD. Go to Wall Drugs where ever that is. Take your time. And get
> used to it. 
>   
> Or, get out to LA quick and get up to Yosemite or drive the PCH up to San
> Francisco. OR head to Vegas, or all the stuff you won't be able to do out
> here once you're working. 
>   
> Don't waste good time moving. You've got a weekender. That's a vehicle about
> the journey. the kind of punishment you're talking about putting on your bus
> is for a destination vehicle like 2001 Honda Odessey. 
>   
> Best, 
> Jeff 
> 83.5 Westy 
> LA,CA 
>   
>   

-- 
Garrick, Queens, NY
'87 GL Weekender

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