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Subject:Re: Age of listees?
From:Zoltan
Date:Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:44:13 -0800

Did you find the girl again?
Z
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Olson" <jjolson@GWTC.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Age of listees?

> I'm 54 and drove my first bus when 17.  A friend had purchased a 66
> SO-42 camper in Ft. Bragg, CA and needed someone to drive it home to
> Santa Rosa because he drove a mail truck there and back six days a
> week.  I picked up a woman hitchiking - she must have been 22 or 23 -
> and we fell in love on the three hour drive.  I was of course young,
> with thick, shoulder-length blond hair and thin (not like now) and oh so
> filled with the uncertainty of the times.  She was dressed in
> embroidered raw cotton layers - long skirt, peasant blouse, a hand made
> duffle.  I dropped her off, both of us knowing it wouldn't work - me in
> high school, she staying at one of the communes then prevalent in the
> coastal hills. Ahhh, what a memory...
>
> I bought the 66 camper three years later, and kept it until the
> mid-80s.  I bought an 82 diesel and installed a westy interior in it
> from a wreck, and now have an 85 vanagon no, bus, ready for a subie
> engine and custom interior.
>
> Jeffrey Olson
> Martin, SD
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