Wow!  Serious Road Trip!  

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On Oct 28, 2011, at 15:08, Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> We are getting to closer to committing to our plan of traveling
> the Southwest for approximately 4 weeks starting in mid-December.  We are
> planning on shipping our van to the Seattle area next month and flying down
> to pick it up around December 15th.  Several List Members have generously
> offered a place to store the van until we arrive and I hope to make the
> decision on which one will work best for all involved shortly.  Once we
> arrive at the van we will load it and hit the road as we have to pick up our
> daughter at Humbolt State University on the 16th or 17th.  We plan to travel
> south from Humbolt as stops at either(or both) Van Cafe or GoWesty are in
> order as the van needs new bumpers and maybe a few other items.  From there
> we plan on being somewhere in Arizona most likely Tucson, Scottsdale, or
> Sedona by Christmas to be with family and/or friends.  On the return leg of
> the trip we have to drop our daughter back at Humbolt, our 9yr old son at an
> airport for an escorted flight home, stash the van someplace in storage
> until Spring, and get on a flight to Las Vegas for a Conference.  This will
> of course happen without a hitch as we all know that a Vanagon will never
> let its operator down nor leave them stranded on the side of a highway.  If
> you were wandering the Southwest during this time of year where would you go
> and what would you do?  I am also looking for one or more books I have seen
> mentioned on the List in the past that identified camping sites(BLM and
> others) etc.  If anyone knows the titles of any of these books please let me
> know so I can track them down more easily.  I had them at one time but they
> are lost to an old email address that i can no longer access.  I would love
> to meet up along the way with some of the List members that I only know by
> their Posts so if anyone is interested drop me an email and we will see if
> the schedule works.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mark in AK
> `87 Westy Syncro