-----Original Message-----
From: Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Key West Trip

>We drove our '81 Westie from Arizona to Key West and back right after
Christmas. It was a great trip, and we really enjoyed the Keys, but I have
to tell you that from the standpoint of somebody from Arizona, there is NO
back country in the Keys.

Not unless you have a boat... then there's plenty. Of course an Arizonian
wouldn't even think of that  ;-)

I was down in KW the first week in Jan we might have been there at the same
time    .... still a fair number of buses in sight. From what I gather from
the friend I was visiting, a long time * conch* ( local),  some of them are
*conch cruisers* as in it will never make it off the island. Some of them
though, are brought down to KW by assorted counter-culture types and left
behind when the dough runs out. I actually saw some pretty decent rigs. Of
course being from WI anything that doesn't have gaping rust holes in it
looks good to me.

Len