Wow! Now that is a generous do gooder. That guy needs to go on someone's
Christmas card list. Hope all works out well with the Vanagon.

On 4/2/07, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good Morning All.
>
> I got home late last night from a really great week teaching String Bass
> and
> playing music at the 108 Mile Ranch Bluegrass Workshop in the Cariboo
> Country of BC.
>
> We were on the way home in Tim's 84 Westy and things were going fine,. The
> temperature was just above freezing and it snowing lightly, but we were
> still warm from the amazing people we met at the workshop.
>
> We stopped at a pullout over the Thompson River to pee and to admire the
> view of the mountain opposite.  As Tim put it into Park, the motor did a
> little rev -drop -rev-drop shuffle, then he shut it off.
>
> It wouldn't re-start. It cranked fine and fired, but didn't seem to have
> the
> fuel to sustain combustion, so I went in search of the fuel pump relays.
> First we had to shift the two string basses, three guitars, banjo and
> mandolin that were strapped into the bed area.
> Of course, being the banjo player's van there were no tools in it
> whatsoever, so I couldn't really do anything but look at the relays and of
> course there was no cell phone signal.
>
> As I was leaning in with the wind and snow blowing harder and the
> temperature dropping I saw a northbound white SUV slow down and back up to
> come over to where we were.
>
> The driver, a manager with CN Rail,  said that he used to have a Westy and
> did we need some help. After hearing our story, he offered to take us with
> him to Kamloops where we could at least use the phone etc.  I mentioned
> the
> valuable collection of instruments filling the van, and he offered to
> leave
> some of his gear in the VW so we could take our stuff with us.
> After thinking for a minute, he turned around and we went south to Lytton,
> to the temporary works yard that CN is renting from the Lytton band while
> the RR does some repairs in the Canyon.  When we got there he left us in
> the
> Ford and went to talk to his Supervisor. He came back with two Beef
> Stroganoff dinners for us and told us that he was going to take his
> colleagues car to Kamloops and let us take his home!
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It's naked inside - IT'S ALIVE!)
86' (We call this one Parts)
85' GL (Sidelined and feeling neglected)