sounds like a great trip, Don.  I'm envious.  mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> ...trouble-free.   A 9-week winter trip to the Southwest US for some sun
> and bicycling.  As usual for this trip, (4th time in this van, I think)  my
> 84 5sp inline VW powered van ran great, giving me about 22 mpg most of the
> time at my normal cruising speeds of around 65mph.   Only thing that I
> bought for the van was a replacement for my NAPA coach battery which was
> starting to lose it's ability to deliver power for my laptop and sat radio,
> etc.    $21 for that, pro rated.
>
>   Gasoline was pricey in California, about $.25/gal cheaper in Oregon on
> the return trip.   I had a beautiful drive home on Hwy 395, with a stop
> near Bishop, California to ride the kinks out of my legs.   I was racing to
> beat a Pacific storm coming in, almost got caught near Bodie, California
> when a heavy snow flurry came in, but luckily, I was over the pass heading
> downhill.   Another flurry this AM near Bend, Or and some freezing
> fog...but otherwise an easy trip.   Slept a few hrs last night near
> Summerlake in eastern Or. and was serenaded by a couple of hooting owls and
> some sandhill cranes out on the lake shore...
>
>    this is what I have my faux Westie for.
>
>   Don Hanson

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David McNeely