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Subject:Re: 6 guys and vanagon x-country-UPDATE
From:John Rodgers
Date:Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:20:39 -0500

Oh, man! The guys really got ripped off on that computer. But if that is
all there was, and waiting for one of lower cost to be be shipped in was
going to jam their time schedule - there wasn't a whole lot to be done
but get on with it. But I sure do hate seeing/hearing of someone being
taken advantage of just because.....!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Ted Titcomb wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Payson Titcomb [mailto:paysonpayson@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:36 AM
> To: Titcomb Ted
> Subject: A new hope...
>
> Ok, it's very late, and I've Been driving for 14 hours, so this one is
> guna be short.
> As many of u have probably heard, our computor, which regulates things
> such as fuel injection, fried. Last night we slept soundly at a
> holiday in not to far from our breakdown in Staunton VA. This morning
> we towed the van to a shop, and a nice fellow named patric saved our
> trip by selling us a used computor for $330 (and a free key chain).
> So, with the van fixed, we decided to ditch new Orleans, and book it
> west.
> Travel was smooth aside from parts of the appalacian mts. Which took
> their toll on velma, asking her to constantly dowshift into 3rd gear,
> and once even second.
> After we got throught the mts. It was truley smooth sailing all the
> way to a park somewhere in Indiana.  We plan to stop in st. Louis for
> a good deal of time to see Taiki's relatives, so it made sense to
> sleep and finish our three hour drive that morning.
> We pulls over, and stayed at leyville park, which is basically a camp
> site except u don't have to pay. Well atleast I don't think so...we
> got there at 2am and left at six...
> So we got to camp and explored till like 3am and then crashed.
> Everyone fits in the van, no tent necessary!
> Anyway, sorry this was a bad report, I'll try and make it better
> tomorrow, or hopefully tonight.
> Later kids!
>
> PAYStheACE
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