Welcome to the Bay Area, Sam. Home of BenT, Mike Miller, the Subaru/
Vanagon List and obscenely filthy-rich Vanagon owners like myself up
here in MARIN county.

You can meet us all at bURniNgVaN on the 27th of January at Ocean
Beach in SF. Watch the list for more details or call Mike Miller's
LearJet---he might take your call.

Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy

On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:41:01 -0500
> From:    Sam Johnson <wrey45@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: NYC to Palo Alto CA
>
> To the Greatest Vanagonites:
>
> Finally arrived safely in Palo Alto from NYC on Saturday Dec. 2nd
> without
> much of an incident except the one time I tried backing up a short
> distance
> and the traillered vanagon jacknifed accross the road blocking two
> lanes
> somewhere in Tennessee. I must learn how to do this with truck &
> trailer.
> Happy to be here in the much nicer weather and looking forward to
> hooking up
> with other Vanagonites in the near future or knowing where are the
> best
> bone-yards for VWs around here. Thanks again to all who volunteered
> places
> to visit but a snowstorm in New Mexico slowed us down considerably.
> Just got
> our DSL installed and working again so only now I can respond
> online but the
> unpacking is still in high gear.
>
> Sam