Sending good karma your way Joy -- Jim and Laurie are friends of ours and
the fact that Jim loomed up out of nowhere is indeed excellent karma --
probably dispelled any potential problems.

Safe and Happy travels,
Cheers,
Doug

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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...
> > >
> >
>

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