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Subject:Re: Maximum Occupancy of a Westy?
From:Tom Buese
Date:Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:49:36 -0600

On Sep 29, 2008, at 11:41 AM, neil N wrote:

> I'm curious.
>
> Did you use the Buese Shelf to support/stow any humans/animals?

LOL,

nope, but it was full of stuff, & didn't fail, except for 1 bottle of
wine which rolled off & narrowly missed my head, but was still
drinkable.(human error, not BZ Shelf)

>
> ;^)
>
> Neil.
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> Spent a long weekend in the Moab, Utah area camping/bike riding/
>> hiking w/ my business partners & their families & had a wind storm
>> blow in on Saturday pm & last most of the night. Since I had the only
>> Westy, we all took refuge in it during the wind, & managed to fit 5
>> adults, 4 kids, & 3 dogs including my Great Pyrenees, Carl,
>> comfortably in the Westy?  Cocktails were handy, the kids loved the
>> upper level, & the dogs occupied the floor area.  Where else could
>> you do this in a daily driver? BTW, no Westy's were harmed in this
>> experiment, but the chocolate Lab puppy, Chip, did manage to chew on
>> my sink drain cap, but to no harm.  Anyone fit more volks/pets in
>> their vanagon at 1 time than us?
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ
>>
>
>
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