Frank:

If you guys hadn't laid down the tracks, most of us would be unsatisified
souls wandering in the wilderness with vague ideas about how to enjoy life.
When I found the bus scene, I thought, "yes, this is it!"

Thanks, Frank!

Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW. Busesbythebeach.com

On 5/13/08, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/05/2008 9:06:43 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> This has  puzzled me.
>
> I was one, a hippie.  Kinda proud of it,  actually.  Hung out with the
> counter culture, got beat over the head  by the cops  at Century City
> during
> the one war protest I attended,  went to the Monterey Pop Festival...in my
> '57 36hp South African  splittie.  Vanagons were not gonna be produced for
> another what, 12-15  years when  the Hippie movement was happening.  When
> the
> Vanagon  came along, all the hippies already shed their bellbottoms and
> had
> real  jobs, families and mortgages..
> I've had children call my '84 a  "Hippie Van" a few times
> recently...Sheesh!
> I remember when  one of my buddies came back from California in his
> *almost* brand new Bay  window bus...All us "Hippies" kinda laughed at
> him....but when it came time  to go rock climbing or kayaking, we always
> took
> Harry's bus, not the old  beater split window hippie vans...And his would
> start at -40 f, so he  always got to drive us to work during the cold
> spells
> in Wyoming.
> I guess to an outsider, one VW van is much like another...Come to
> think  of
> it, my present van does sort of feel similar to my 57, and I do  sometimes
> live in it..Maybe it IS a hippie van, still...so, does that make  me a
> Hippie, still?
> Don Hanson
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Don,  that's one hellava insightful piece of writing !  Glad somebody
> stepped
> to  say it caus' I have that same feeling all the time !!  Too
> many  figgin'
> hippies still here doing what we did before - good to know
> really  !  Thanks !
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank  Condelli
> Almonte, Ontario, Canada
> '87 Westy & Lionel Trains (_Collection for sale_
> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/trainsal.htm) )
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> )
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>

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