IMHO you
> can all skip the Canadian Rockies, just huge mountains, beautiful lakes &
> varied wildlife, and to
> many people, (Kansas is much nicer, go there).

Skip the Canadian Rockies ???????  You're joking right.

Claudio Cella
87  Vanagon GL  7 pass
90  Jetta TD  421,000 kms
Okanagan Valley in the Canadian Rockies

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Stebbins" <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: Halifax 2 Vancouver: In Vancouver

> FWIW we have arrived in Vancouver, well really Salt Spring Island just off
> Vancouver Island.  As
> far as Vanagon notes go: 1) We had to tighten one coolant clamp, 2) The
> oil pressure buzzer went
> off and after spending CDN $200 to find out that the oil pressure is OK,
> and the pressure sensor
> is OK, seems to be a fault in the electrical ribbon behind the speedo,
> Speaking of speedos, 3)
> The speedo cable  snapped in two right where it goes into the front diff
> (Jeff???),  4) The brakes
> had been a bit spongy since leaving Halifax, I had to pump once to get
> good pressure then again to
> brake.  While going up and over the Rocky Mountains, and using the brakes
> a lot more, brake fluid
> began dripping from the bottom of the tranny.  Again another CDN$200 was
> what it took to replace
> that section of the brake line which had worn a hole from rubbing on top
> of the tranny.  5)  I
> will be searching the archives to find why the sliding door seems to
> prefer the open position to
> the closed position, as the door latch lets go at random. The van is still
> sucking a lot of oil up
> through the crankcase vent tube, but that is not a trip stopper.
>
> So, all in all, the trip has been  fine.  To see all of the varied
> landscape of Canada: Eastern
> mountains, Mid-western forests, the great plains of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
> & Alberta.  IMHO you
> can all skip the Canadian Rockies, just huge mountains, beautiful lakes &
> varied wildlife, and to
> many people, (Kansas is much nicer, go there).
>
> As we left Halifax we toasted the Atlantic ocean, and now we have toasted
> the Pacific ocean., one
> month to the day, and I wish I knew how many kilometres, but I'd guess
> about  5 to 6,000.  Of
> that, only about 500 kilometres were on 4 lane roads, and only two major
> cities (Winnipeg &
> Vancouver).  We stick to the small 2 lane roads as we travel.
>
> We will be here a week, and then we will again test the van to see if it
> can make it back to
> Halifax, this time through the northern US.  Take care.  Malcolm & Pat
>
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