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Subject:Re: Vanagon Lit
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:35:33 -0700

Does it say where this took place?  My friend Dave & his wife Kate had a
Pastel White 90 Westy for many years here in BC.

On 7/28/07, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "I climbed into Kate and Dave's Vanagon in the
> morning..."
>
> You read about them on web pages. You read about them
> in  blogs and in the Bentley and, of course, you read
> about them here but you seldom come across the mention
> of one on the printed page in casual reading.
>
> I picked up a copy of "The Unsavvy Traveler," a
> collection of travel writings, and in "The Mongrels"
> by Novella Carpenter paragraph three begins with the
> above words.  That's about it for Vanagon-specific
> narrative, but it's an okay yarn and there's later
> mention of an interesting demise involving a different
> van.
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com