Yeah!

Inspired!  Just have to get a couple of teenagers through college, and we
are off!

Those were really good pictures.

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

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:22 PM, pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@gmail.com>wrote:

> I just realized I never posted a link to the pictures from our x-country
> trip last summer.  Pickle did 8000 miles in three weeks.  That's cramped
> for
> timing, but it's what we could fit into our lives right now and it was
> great.  Having no mechanical trouble made a big difference.  We went from
> jersey out west (furthest was Berkley) and then back to Jersey.  We mostly
> sprinted while in the east so that we could maximize our time out west.
>  The
> highlight of the trip was probably hiking the grand canyon, but there were
> so many spectacular things---the trip was way more than the sum of its
> parts.  If anyone is interested in more specifics about our trip let me
> know.
>
> pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mchikina/RoadTrip#
> This is just a selection of the photos obviously, and is mostly from places
> out west.
>
>
> -Wes
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM, brady <dofunk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Don't get caught on a dirt road mountain pass at 10k and then try to
> drive
> > down said dirt mountian road in the snow that fell over night in your 2wd
> > vanagon.
> > It happened to me and it took us 5hrs to go 3 miles back down to a safe
> > area.  The road was totally a mud slick slide and it was so bad I had all
> > out of the van and I was driving with the door open so if the van started
> to
> > go for it over the edge I could bail!.  Most of the time I had to keep
> the
> > van in revers with tire chains on just to keep it in place and not slide
> off
> > the side of the road. I also had a rope tied to the front of the van so
> the
> > other two with me could pull a-la tug-o-war to also keep it from sliding
> off
> > of the cliff.
> > Brady
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ryan Tanner <ryanatanner@GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 5:42:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Xross country 10,000 miles travel
> >
> > I'd love to hear about anyone's cross-country westfalia experiences. I'm
> > going from RI to WA to CA and back this summer. Any tips on what to
> do/not
> > do on such a trip are welcome! Thanks, Ryan
> >
>