You can ship heavy boxes Greyhound at very reasonable cost.

On Jan 8, 2008 11:13 AM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I was thinking about how you couldn't carry a lot of part home too easily
> if
> people flew to the west for a junkyard ecotour.   They'd have to ship big
> or
> heavy stuff home, adding to the cost, so sure, westy with a trailer !
> Two thoughts on your last paragraph...............
> It helps to have an SO that likes to van travel, like actually enjoys the
> adventuring and driving of it, and two...
> About the blahs...........have you heard of SAMe ?
> It's a supplement.  It's for mood, brain function, longevity and joints.
> If I didn't have a 200 mg one of those each morning...............well,
> quite often during the winter if find myself
> thinking.............considering my circumstances I should be a lot more
> depressed than I am ( which is not depressed at all ) .............it must
> be the SAMe.
>
> Here's one link describing it.  I couldn't live without it.  I started at
> 400 but now just do 200 mg a day.  For me it makes a MAJOR difference in
> my
> mood, especially in winter.
>
> http://www.consumerlab.com/results/same.asp
>
> scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> David Etter
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:42 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: "Pick & Pay Ecotour Vacation"
>
> Thanks Scott:
>        You have a point there and now I am beginning to think that a
> trip in a Westy with a trailer for parts would be a better idea.
> Previous submissions about the dirth of Vanagon parts in Florida
> combined with my experience of travelling in the West  lead me to
> believe that your idea of a trip from WARM Oregon to WET and WARM
> California would be a more productive undertaking.
>        Now! If I can just push a small change (3 additional weeks)
> past the S.O., I'll have the mid-winter blahs beat.
> Thank you!
>
>                                                David (dsl82westy)
>                                                (in Eastern Canada)
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~
>
>
> >Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>  wrote
> >Yes, but they would be east coast vanagons ( rust )
> >The West is where it's at for pick-n-pull junkyards.
> >AND ..........in Oregon there's no sales tax either.
> >I love the idea of the organized trip, but when you mentioned
> accommodations
> >and other forms of entertainment.....whew, started sounding like a lot of
> >work to organize.
> >
> >Tell you what, original poster from eastern Canada..............you fly
> out
> >here to Medford Oregon and stay in a motel. ( maybe I'll rent you a
> vanagon
> >) I'll tell you where to hit junkyards from Portland Oregon to Redding
> >California, and for each vanagon part you get you pay me a commission on
> >what you saved.
> >
> >Then when you're done with that part, I'll send you to the big Island of
> >Hawaii, where you can work on a permaculture farm for a while.
> >Scott
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of
> >Roger Sisler
> >Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:35 PM
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Re: "Pick & Pay Ecotour Vacation"
> >
> >Just think of all the Vanagons that drove to Florida in winter and blew
> an
> >engine down there.  I'll bet many were just left behind.
>

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Jake
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