Mine was when my current client told me that the doors he'd ordered
weren't coming in until Monday.   So I stuffed all my tools back in the van
and went home, dumped all those into my shop and put all my windsurfing
gear inside, instead of those dusty old tools.  I didn't even have to take
out the bicycle gear....Out came the table saw, the compressor, a couple of
saw horses, a chop saw table, tool boxes, levels clamps, etc etc.   In went
two sailboards, 5 sails, two masts, two booms, wetsuits, etc.  Off I went
with a huge tailwind, heading east up the Columbia River to my favorite
"beach" about 60 miles east.   A couple of sessions in perfect 40mph
winds...a nice lunch cooked in the kitchen, a short nap in back...and a
noisy trip back 'upwind' into the 40+ mph gusts made for an almost perfect
day.
  Don Hanson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> People like these things.
> I was waiting at a red light in my basically cherry/original 82 Sunroof
> 2-tone, Yellow Diesel Vanagon ..
> someone going by in the left turn lane yelled out ..'Nice Van ! '
>
> I'll take that !
>
>
> On 9/13/2012 10:30 PM, Stephen Engel wrote:
>
>> Well, I have a tin top, but during one trip I had two moments.  Someone
>> in a 2nd gen. Jetta flashed me a peace sign and
>>   kids playing football stopped play to point and wave!
>>
>>
>> ______________________________**__
>>   From: Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@GMAIL.COM>
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 12:50 AM
>> Subject: Fraydaye -- What Was Your Favourite Westy Moment This Week?
>>
>> Mine:
>> Sunny, mid-day family outing to the library.  Parallel park in front
>> of a restaurant between SUPER! swanky, lovely green Porsche and some
>> big Audi.  Wifey says "look" -- kids wave to the faces watching us
>> through the restaurant windows.  It's so innocent that the faces wave
>> back.  Park job is perfection in one movement, stop engine, wheels
>> coast to the curb.  Side door opens.  Nalgene water bottle and
>> children's toys make a racket as they tumble out of the van and spread
>> across the sidewalk.  Kids and parents laugh, as if on cue.
>>
>> Same faces watch us pull out of the parking spot 20 minuts later.
>> Exhaust leak (which has graduated from "tick tick tick" and is
>> no-longer self-sealing when hot) accelerates slowly into the distance
>> - fut......fut.....fut....fut...**fut..fut.fut.fut.fut.  wifey laughs --
>> she loves the sound of the engine.
>>
>> she wants me to go see Frank C and Rita again.
>>
>> she wants us to get an orange bus.
>>
>> she's crazy.
>>
>>