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Subject:Re: locations please
From:Bob Calkins
Date:Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:45:32 -0800

I guess I gotta thin out as I may be "Over Farming", have 20 on only 8
acres....Help!!
Bob Calkins Placer ville, Ca

Malcolm Holser wrote:

> Malcolm Holser and family,
>
> in Midpines, California, about 30 miles outside of Yosemite Valley, the
> single most beautiful place on the planet.  We own a whole raft of VW's
> a Toyota Landcruiser, and an Acura Legend.  My father had a VW Beetle,
> 1952, when I was born, but we went to a 54 Deluxe Microbus (I was the
> youngest of seven children).  My first VW was a '57 singlecab.  Currently
> we have four "runners" and four non-runners at our place, doing our best
> to uphold the tradition of a minimum 1-car-per-acre of rural America.
>
> Our "runners" are:
>
> 1980 Vanagon Westfalia -- been all over the US, almost.
> 1986 vanagon GL -- the "Scout-mobile"
> 1986 Transporter Kombi Syncro -- a big red beast
> 1986 Transporter Syncro Doublecab -- beigish-brownish, matches our dirt.
>
> Along with a 1972 Westy, a 1977 bus, a 1981 Vanagon and a 1982 Diesel Westy.
>
> Formerly a Park Ranger in Yosemite, now a computer geek in the silicon
> valley, where I go for meetings and such in a small plane.