Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Colorado
- Amskeptic
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Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Colorado
Well, I have been hair-trigger, shooting baleful looks at all of these Colorado drivers just daring them to set me off. That Interstate 25 is just too damn quick by cracky where do all these youngsters have to go in such a hurry?
So I found a campsite in Wyoming.
It had a sweeping view of the sky, lots of soothing crickets, stars, and the BobD sat quiescent in the dark allowing my rattled mind to re-orient to the present.
Thought I made a wrong turn in the night:
Drove back down towards the Colorado border along some railroad tracks on a gravel frontage road and found these creatures:
Found a nice little corn field to camp in the next night
with babbling irrigation "brook":
With a view like that in the morning light, how could you not just take off your front bumper and clean all the overspray/waxoyl from the inside of it and wax the impact box?:
. . . . and why would you then not 120-grit sand the whole outside down to the original primer/paint, then 800 grit color sand it with water from the babbling "brook", and paint it in a tree? I ask you :
Man, the cad plating on the bumper bolts was as-new:
Now the front bumper looks as new as the rest of the car . . . until next week when some 18-wheeler drives on the shoulder in front of me:
Wheels get the IAC itinerant paintbooth treatment next . . . and vwlover77 can then have the beauty rings, yay
Meanwhile, what is this life?
Colin
So I found a campsite in Wyoming.
It had a sweeping view of the sky, lots of soothing crickets, stars, and the BobD sat quiescent in the dark allowing my rattled mind to re-orient to the present.
Thought I made a wrong turn in the night:
Drove back down towards the Colorado border along some railroad tracks on a gravel frontage road and found these creatures:
Found a nice little corn field to camp in the next night
with babbling irrigation "brook":
With a view like that in the morning light, how could you not just take off your front bumper and clean all the overspray/waxoyl from the inside of it and wax the impact box?:
. . . . and why would you then not 120-grit sand the whole outside down to the original primer/paint, then 800 grit color sand it with water from the babbling "brook", and paint it in a tree? I ask you :
Man, the cad plating on the bumper bolts was as-new:
Now the front bumper looks as new as the rest of the car . . . until next week when some 18-wheeler drives on the shoulder in front of me:
Wheels get the IAC itinerant paintbooth treatment next . . . and vwlover77 can then have the beauty rings, yay
Meanwhile, what is this life?
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- Sylvester
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Colin, when you are out in the boondocks while camping, or talking to God, have you ever been "discovered" by a property owner or other individuals by surprise, and what happened?
I do remember the Philippine family waking you up years ago and laughing at you, pointing as you tried to stumble from the Road Warrior.
I do remember the Philippine family waking you up years ago and laughing at you, pointing as you tried to stumble from the Road Warrior.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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I have a had a few unexpected acquaintances along the way. I have had maybe two people in the past eight years tell me to leave their property with no conversation possible, one was a restauranteur who did not want me painting heater valves in his parking lot, the other was a crabby security guard at a mall parking lot.Sylvester wrote:Colin, when you are out in the boondocks while camping, or talking to God, have you ever been "discovered" by a property owner or other individuals by surprise, and what happened?
I do remember the Philippine family waking you up years ago and laughing at you, pointing as you tried to stumble from the Road Warrior.
The Philippino tourists *pulled me out * and took a group shot with me in the middle wrapped in my comforter. I speculated in my write-up that they would have a good laugh at their slide show back home, but they were very respectful and happy people at the time. Their excitability revolved around their efforts to tell me that their uncle in Manila had a VW bus.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- glasseye
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I've been busted by property owners a couple of times. I usually play the safety card. "I just got soooo tired, I had to pull off and sleep."Sylvester wrote:have you ever been "discovered" by a property owner or other individuals by surprise, and what happened?
They're usually very understanding, even interested in my adventures.
Then, again, I haven't been caught with my bumper off, cleaning it.
"This war will pay for itself."
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
- Sylvester
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I can imagine with all the people you two have come across you could write a book on just those experiences. I mean, I have pulled over a camel driver in Kuwait just to get a picture of me and a camel, but posing for pictures in a comforter outside the Road Warrior with a family is an 8x10 keeper!
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
- glasseye
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"You two", nuttin'. I've been beating on Colin's ass for years to write a book. No waiting for the VW book to be done, no excuses, no prevarication, abstention, procrastination or exacerbation allowed. Just do it.Sylvester wrote:I can imagine with all the people you two have come across you could write a book on just those experiences.
As long as I get to shoot the cover shot.
"This war will pay for itself."
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
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You know? Maybe you're right. I'll get "right on it".Kubelwagen wrote:A VW book? That would be a great idea! He could put illustrations in there and technical descriptions.
Colin - you should totally do that!
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- airkooledchris
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- Sylvester
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That is not what I want to see. You have more stories than Charles Kuralt, the jewel of that would be a book that would sell to people other than VW fans like us. The stories behind the years of traveling would be very popular.Amskeptic wrote:You know? Maybe you're right. I'll get "right on it".Kubelwagen wrote:A VW book? That would be a great idea! He could put illustrations in there and technical descriptions.
Colin - you should totally do that!
Colin
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.