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
Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Oregon I
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Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Oregon I
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
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Lovely, just lovely. I very much hope to go to one of these... a visit home, and then off to Maupin.
ML
ML
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Woody Guthrie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0A_B5gVjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0A_B5gVjw
http://greencascadia.blogspot.com
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
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Fascinating to remember the labor and the story behind these projects that just nestle in the landscape today.hambone wrote:Woody Guthrie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0A_B5gVjw
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
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Of course she didn't, she was home.Amskeptic wrote: As always, Chloe hardly cared...
Colin
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1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
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Re: Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Oregon I
Home is where the heart is, Dick.dtrumbo wrote:Of course she didn't, she was home.Amskeptic wrote: As always, Chloe hardly cared...
Colin
It looks like she shares a Hiya! very expansive heart like her prior owner's,
big enough for the whooooole country .
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