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Subject:Re: Wife is done with Vanagon and camping!
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Mon, 1 Jul 2013 00:05:02 -0400

Don't I know it!

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
JRodgers
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:55 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Wife is done with Vanagon and camping!

With all the unknowns surrounding gas pricing these days, you may be better
served sicking to  a Vanagon of your choice. You could suddenly get bit
hard!!

John

On 6/30/2013 8:40 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote:
> So I shouldn't be drooling over an 85 Airstream 345 for sale near me? :).
Because I am and need to be talked out of it.
>
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 2013-06-30, at 8:33 PM, "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM> wrote:
>
>> Many of my customers are retirees. I fondly remember a couple who
>> stopped by to pick up some parts during the Bus Depot's first year,
>> when I was still working out of my house.  They were in their
>> eighties and pulled up in a white '71 Westy that was just like one I
>> used to own. They told me that after they retired they'd bought a
>> large motorhome so they could travel the country, but found that it
>> was too unwieldy to take up smaller roads.  So they bought a small
>> car to tow behind it, as people often do. But they found that
>> sometimes they would travel a bit too far out of the way in the car, and
not really want to drive all the way back to the motorhome by nightfall.
>> So they sold the car and bought a '71 Westy to tow behind the
>> motorhome, which allowed them to take a quick overnight trip and
>> return back to the big motorhome the next day.  But after a while,
>> they decided that the motorhome was superfluous, as the Westy was
>> much easier to drive, better on gas, and had everything they really
needed. So they sold the motorhome.
>>
>> - Ron Salmon
>>    The Bus Depot, Inc.
>>    www.busdepot.com
>>    (215)  234-VWVW
>>
>> _____________________________________________
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