Good for your 14-year-old!  Please fix her how to repair her own van - I
wish my dad had taught me.  

(The fact that we didn't own a motor vehicle and he didn't know a thing
about car repair is neither here nor there.  Just as the fact that he only
spoke English and my mom speaks English & Yiddish didn't matter at all when
I was mad at them for not having brought me up fluent in German, when my two
best friends were bilingual.)

I hope typing vanagon emails doesn't count as violating the moment of
silence.  I am wearing orange and listening to solemn church bells as I
type.  Indeed, they sound much more solemn than usual.

Joy

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Joy Hecht
now living in a real house in northern Virginia
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
lugging Joy and her stuff around...

For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place:
http://www.joyhecht.net

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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
:::Of Jeff Ensing
:::Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:21 AM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Everybus 2007 (Our First Time)
:::
:::This was our first year also.
:::
:::It was a wonderful time!  I met a lot of great people and look forward
:::to
:::meeting more of you at upcoming events.
:::
:::Our fourteen year old got bitten by the VW bug bad !!   she is  now hell
:::bent
:::on having a VW to start restoring for her fifteenth birthday  coming up!
:::
:::Thanks to Hans for having the Vanaru there to test drive also.
:::It was an interesting perspective on transplants and gear ratios for  me.
:::
:::
:::Thank you to Chris and whomever else made this happen it looks like quite
:::an
:::undertaking and I really appreciate that we have events like this to go
:::to.
:::
:::The trip was a success mechanically .
:::On the way up we picked up a  tank of gas  with some water in it  . This
:::was
:::easily drained ( and spotted)
:::  because of the pre pump clear filter I use .
:::
:::We decided at the last minute because of the weather coming to leave late
:::Saturday night.
:::I was sorry we did not get to say some more good byes but I was glad we
:::broke camp before that rain!
:::
:::Our only glitch on the way home was losing the trailer lights,   which I
:::noticed right away
:::(and so did the South Carolina state troopers !)
:::Once they established my trailer did Not have 100 lbs  of pot , and we
:::were
:::no threat to homeland security they humbly let me fix my  lights which
:::just
:::turned out to be a dead short where the running lights were  pinched by
:::the
:::safety chain bolt six years ago  .... and just now decided  to show up.
:::
:::Great time guys ... looking forward to the next one!
:::
:::Jeff  E. ,     Leela and Asalyn too
:::Atlanta , Ga.
:::87'  Westy "weekender"
:::91' GL "Drop dead  red"
:::
:::
:::
:::
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