Sorry to hear about all the technical issues on Sunday. I was hoping the
rest of the event would go as good as it sounded when I called on Saturday
night. I was really sorry I missed at the time but hearing about the -3
maybe not........Ok yeah I wish I was there. I'm glad you all had a great
time.

On 2/12/07, Peter T. Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Man, it was cold!
>
> Had a great road trip in JoesVan on Saturday morning with my 14 year old
> daughter, Katharine.  Got a wild reaction from a lady in a white Jetta on
> 80/90 who smiled and waved and thumb-upped us for a mile or two.
>
> We hit Pokagon about 12:30 PM and were met by Ken, Sue and Ed and Elaine
> from Michigan.  They got the oak logs (a nice load of wood purchased in
> advance for Pokagon State Park was the hit of the weekend!) roaring while
> I
> shoveled out campsites and we were off!
>
> Buses came in, the food and drink and tunes (Merl Saunders/Garcia/Grisman)
> came out and we hung out around the fire most of the day and into the
> evening.  We had some awesome Crock Pot creations:  Lynn's Potato and Ham
> soup (yum!) Charlie's Bordeaux Pot Roast (wow!) and Tom and Allen's Turkey
> Sausage Chili (excellent!)  Prolly the most interesting food was Ed's
> Pheasant Jerky. Some brave souls did hit the toboggan run, but the cold
> temps kept most Volk around the fire.
>
> The low for the night was -3!  All campers reported no problems sleeping
> due
> to electric heaters and mylar/foam insulation.  The problems came in the
> morning with the buses.  Joesvan puked out all its oil (oil cooler O ring,
> I'm almost sure) and had to be flatbedded back to it's pole
> barn.  (thanks,
> AAA!) Brien's Brown Betty was a hard wake up and had to be push started
> (3X
> was a charm!) and she made it back to Rockford.  Mark's Suite '78 would
> not
> start but a short trip in Kenny Diesel Jetta to a FLAPS in Angola for some
> starter fluid coaxed it to life.  All other buses made it home on their
> own
> steam.
>
> A great time was had by all and the most quoted line of the night was
> "...you know it's really not bad near the fire..."  Get away from the
> fire,
> though, and it was quickly apparent how frosty it was.  We all hand
> Charlie's hand warmer packets tucked away in our clothes.  The crystal
> clear
> stars were almost worth it, though!
>
> We will be posting our "cool" pics shortly on the Buses by the Beach
> website
> along with a nifty Syncro snow covered hill climb that is really
> neat!  Hey,
> we don't have palm trees, but we do have fun!
>
>
> See everybody at Bus Benefit, May 18-20th at Grand Rogue.  We will once
> again defeat the Mustang Club for most vehicles at the Burn Survivor car
> Show!
>
>
>
> --
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
> '02 Audi A6 Avant
> WWW. Busesbythebeach.com
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It needs a lot of work)
86' (Soon to be donating organs to the 90')
85' GL (sidelined but to be resurrected in the near future)