Thanks, everyone who has sent messages!  It's working.  The ferry was
TOTALLY on time (this is unheard of, with Marine Atlantic), I made it from
N. Sydney, Nova Scotia to Bangor, Maine yesterday with no hassles.  And one
totally serendipitous event.  Jim & Laurie Wallace, vanagon folks from
somewhere in Ontario (but not on this list) were in Newfoundland in their
van.  They had planned to come to St. John's to visit Keith Pike & me, but
they had problems - mechanical, hurricane-ferry conflicts - and couldn't
travel that far.  So we didn't get to see them.  Bummer.  So yesterday, I'm
parked in the Cape Breton visitor center, having used their free wifi - I
walk out of the building to see a vanagon pulling in - it's Jim & Laurie, on
their way west.  They saw Matilda in the parking lot, thought they might as
well look on the odd chance that it was really me - and bingo, I walked out
of the building just as they pulled in!

Sweet!  Alas, since I wanted to make it to Bangor yesterday, we didn't stop
to have lunch and swap tales, but it was great to run into them.

An hour or two later I was getting sleepy, pulled over to have a catnap.  I
was just about to get going again when a vanagon pulls up - Jim & Laurie
again, saw my van on the side of the road and thought I'd broken down.
(Jim's a vanagon mechanic by profession.)  Fortunately, no such bad luck,
but it's good to have friends watching out!

Heading to Boston today, visiting friends tonight, on to the NY area
tomorrow.  Hopefully all will continue to go well!

Joy & Matilda

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>wrote:

> Joy, here you go.....can you feel it?! Happy travels y buena suerte,
> Miguel
>
> I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
>   - Thomas A. Edison
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > I'm heading out momentarily for another mad dash from Newfoundland to New
> > York - going to help my mom, who's recuperating from hip replacement.
> >
> > Please, all my vanagon friends, out there, send good road karma!  No
> moose
> > (at least not in front of my van), no breakdowns, no accidents, the ferry
> > WILL be on time, and all that good stuff!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Joy (and Matilda)
> >
> > p.s.  of course since I'll be on the road, I won't be on line to reply!
>  But
> > that's okay...
> >
>