Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Oregon I
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:39 pm
I love the astonishing beauty of the landscape leading to and through the Columbia River Gorge leg of my itinerary.
Bonneville Dam? Taken at 55 mph in I-84 traffic, these pictures are haphazard compositions at best:
As always, I battled headwinds. As always, Chloe hardly cared, "if almost always at full throttle, do I care if it is wind or hauling my carcass up some hill?"
The view at the top of the hill:
The stupidhappy view along the endless ribbon of road:
The view of the Deschutes River just yards from the RendezVW:
The view just feet from the RendezVW:
The view just inches from Kirk:
Such a good bunch of people:
I loved our midnight walk where we lay in the road like teenagers and felt the train's approach across the river and saw a huge meteorite blast overhead:
Porsches! A flock of them passed through. I wanted to talk Type 4 so bad with so many, but I had work to do:
Airkooledchris, it looked like performance pantomime, but maybe he was just instructing his camera:
A beautiful deluxe Microbus with a gratifyingly longterm owner, 17 years was it? arty interior shot :
Here is Heather, a true Volkswagen vital spirit. There was a dawning recognition under the front end of her bus that I was talking with an experienced mechanical peer:
It was great to catch up with IFBwax and his beautiful family. Thank-you, Mark, for hosting this gathering of the tribe. It was a joy to see the multiplying numbers of the new generation of VW enthusiasts, these RendezVWs will be unforgettable memories for many.
I left Maupin with a sense that the future for these cars is up to us. We are the ones to guide our vendors/suppliers to provide the means to keep these wonderful cars running at the level they deserve, if we can just apply a polite relentless pressure for a little more excellent and a little less shoddy.
Colin
Bonneville Dam? Taken at 55 mph in I-84 traffic, these pictures are haphazard compositions at best:
As always, I battled headwinds. As always, Chloe hardly cared, "if almost always at full throttle, do I care if it is wind or hauling my carcass up some hill?"
The view at the top of the hill:
The stupidhappy view along the endless ribbon of road:
The view of the Deschutes River just yards from the RendezVW:
The view just feet from the RendezVW:
The view just inches from Kirk:
Such a good bunch of people:
I loved our midnight walk where we lay in the road like teenagers and felt the train's approach across the river and saw a huge meteorite blast overhead:
Porsches! A flock of them passed through. I wanted to talk Type 4 so bad with so many, but I had work to do:
Airkooledchris, it looked like performance pantomime, but maybe he was just instructing his camera:
A beautiful deluxe Microbus with a gratifyingly longterm owner, 17 years was it? arty interior shot :
Here is Heather, a true Volkswagen vital spirit. There was a dawning recognition under the front end of her bus that I was talking with an experienced mechanical peer:
It was great to catch up with IFBwax and his beautiful family. Thank-you, Mark, for hosting this gathering of the tribe. It was a joy to see the multiplying numbers of the new generation of VW enthusiasts, these RendezVWs will be unforgettable memories for many.
I left Maupin with a sense that the future for these cars is up to us. We are the ones to guide our vendors/suppliers to provide the means to keep these wonderful cars running at the level they deserve, if we can just apply a polite relentless pressure for a little more excellent and a little less shoddy.
Colin
