<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 24px"><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Hi All;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Made it to San Francisco (from Boston) to&nbsp;pick up the wife on time.&nbsp; Primary mission accomplished.&nbsp; Staying at a Best Western with internet access while getting the camper cleaned up and ready for getting into Yosemite tomorrow.&nbsp; If it shows food (bear problems) inside, except for the stuff going into the bear box, I hear they may say no opening the top.&nbsp; I want to avoid that!&nbsp; </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Stayed with Dug and his cool SO Victoria the other night.&nbsp; As usual, vanagon types are unique and friendly.&nbsp; Really nice to host a wandering vanagonaut.&nbsp; Dug has a really nice 87 (?) all set up with those massive pipe bumpers (says he needs them in Cali.), SA headlights, dual batteries, some nice interior lighting he installed,&nbsp;and a cool door on his closet I am not telling about.&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Camper running real well with that new FAST motor.&nbsp; I must admit though, running at about 5150 lbs,&nbsp;some of the hills around here did slow me down.&nbsp; Dug told me to do the RT 413 (from Reno) up to Lake Tahoe (National Scenic Byway) down to 50 to 49.&nbsp; What a bunch of wild roads.&nbsp; Lots of fancy shifting, acceleration, and braking.&nbsp; With the new parts, the suspension on these beasts really shines, even when so close to max weight.&nbsp; No noise or problems with the urathane bushings, although they don't have any age on them.&nbsp; I am testing them to the limit though&nbsp;and not always on purpose.&nbsp; Lots of things to mention, not enough time or space to do all.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Really looking forward to doing more of these great National Parks.&nbsp; Yosemite for a week,&nbsp;fast 2 day drive up to/through the Grand Tetons then up to Yellowstone for a week.&nbsp; I'll keep in touch as much as possible, although it took more than a little time tonight to check through 297 unread posts!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Happy Motoring;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>Dave B. (and Diane)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV></div>