The Great 2009 Springtime AsstroRun (tm)

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:45 pm

satchmo pulled his karma back into balance and got some hard to get parts to boot. I know the secret

Nice to see you again Tim!!!!!

Oh..and here is what I did today:
http://www.bill-the-bus.blogspot.com/

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:08 pm

I'd think the tarpaper would off gas and drive me nuts. Can't you go to home despot and get some drop cloth type black plastic? That and the universal savior material, duck tape.

Anyway, very entertaining post GE. I like the unexpected survival type stuff.

dtrumbo · Post by **dtrumbo** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:09 pm

Nice Vanagon Tim! Congrats!

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:12 pm

Did Tim sell his Bay?

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:23 am

See, in my bus I just close the curtains.......................................

glasseye · Post by **glasseye** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:33 am

hambone wrote:See, in my bus I just close the curtains.......................................

Mine, too.

But last night's road woulda bin a horror in a bus. Ferndale, CA to Petrolia, CA via Cape Mendocino on the narrowest, bumpiest, rainiest, twistiest, nastiest, scariest, hilliest single-lane track I've yet seen in these Excited States of America. I was RILLY glad of AWD, excellent wipers and glorious HEAT.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:59 pm

glasseye wrote:
hambone wrote:See, in my bus I just close the curtains.......................................
Mine, too.

But last night's road woulda bin a horror in a bus. Ferndale, CA to Petrolia, CA via Cape Mendocino on the narrowest, bumpiest, rainiest, twistiest, nastiest, scariest, hilliest single-lane track I've yet seen in these Excited States of America. I was RILLY glad of AWD, excellent wipers and glorious HEAT.

Oh oh oh PULEEZE, anybody camping in a TARPAPER-decorated hovel with a tin roof can rough it (get it? "can"? "can rough it" like right after tin roof? tin roof can, haw) on a winding little garden path in a VW designed for that very very very very thing (forged-not-stamped suspension arms thank YOU. . .) Like rilly glad the engine's like in the REAR, ooooo scawy.

Anyways, you drink up the adventures in this beautiful country and next time you see me, I can show you how I get sleeping privacy in a little VW with no more than a purple towel tent. . . *
Colin

(*must be 5'7" or less)

glasseye · Post by **glasseye** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:06 pm

Amskeptic wrote: Oh oh oh PULEEZE, anybody camping in a TARPAPER-decorated hovel with a tin roof can rough it

I bin roughing it, honest

I did learn one thing today, er last night. Don't park under large trees in the rain. The irregular, fractal-math patter of open-sky rain drops is far preferable to the clang! tink! clank! of heavy drops from a Ponderosa Pine on my GM tin roof.

The transition from one-lane, no-other-vehicles-for-hours Cape Mendocino route to eight-lanes-each-way US 101 inbound-on-a-Sunday-afternoon-into-Sausalito route was a learning experience, beeleeeeeve me.

Gazing at the Golden Gate...

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:28 pm

Ya get used to that with a tin-top Westy....especially here!
I like it. Means I'm not out in it. Well, until nature calls.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:40 pm

glasseye wrote: Don't park under large trees in the rain. The irregular, fractal-math patter of open-sky rain drops is far preferable to the clang! tink! clank! of heavy drops from a Ponderosa Pine on my GM tin roof.

Intelligent patter about patter. All is right with the world.
Colin
(if its really bad, I park in carwash bays "hey Mr. Owner?, nobody's paying for a carwash right now I promise you")

vdubyah73 · Post by **vdubyah73** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:29 am

Hey Colin.
I use car wash bays in the rain. That's when I take the honeycomb rubber floor mats from Busters to the car wash to pressure wash them.

Hey wake up get outta that bay I need to use it!

Gypsie · Post by **Gypsie** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:32 pm

Alright, Where'd that fella get off to....

glasseye · Post by **glasseye** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:30 am

Death Valley National Park. Incredible, as always. 30C and not the least bit like home, where it's 3C and sn*wing.

Running at a consistent 50 mph over the desert, the Asstro's delivering just over 20 mpusg. Not bad for a 240,000 km motor.

No pix, cuz I'm pirating bandwidth everywhere I go. Amazingly, there's even WiFi in DVNP visitors center.

glasseye · Post by **glasseye** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:02 pm

AND, for all ye of little faith: two days of 30C (say better than 90F) days and not outgassing smells from my tarpaper shack.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:05 pm

Sweet! Tarpaper shackstro guy!

Signed,

ye bay owner with little faith.

ps: I am humbled.

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The Great 2009 Springtime AsstroRun (tm)