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Great VW story Pat. Brought back many memories from a long time ago. Had a 62 Bug and a 68 Squareback. John Muir's book, "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive......For The Complete Idiot" was one I should have held on to, the VW's, maybe not so much. I am sure I could crawl under a Bug today and adjust the valves with no problem, and I have not done it for over 35 years. Just need the valve clearance and a set of gaskets.
Probably put well over 250,000 miles on VW's. A few blow engines, transaxles, but thank goodness, no wrecks. Most memorable trip was a winter drive from Williams Lake BC to Bellingham in about 1970. 30 below, blizzard in the Fraser Canyon, and no heat (didn't read far enough into the Idiots book to realize that I just had to hand close the frozen baffles to get the tiny bit of heat that is produced at those temperatures in the mighty VW engine. Had to scrape the inside of the windows every few minutes. All I could see, besides white, were the tail lights on the snow plow that I was following. I think back on that trip and I realize just how much of an idiot I really was. But, the Bug got me home in one piece.

Thanks for the story, and the memory jog.

Robbi
 
Robbi":4e9nbu5f said:
I just had to hand close the frozen baffles to get the tiny bit of heat that is produced at those temperatures in the mighty VW engine.
Robbi
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Ahh the memories....having a '64 and a '67 VW Bug in Montana winters of sub zero temperatures were quite "toasty" for me as both of the "Bugs" had the "auxiliary gasoline powered heater" installed. The heat from that could drive a person out of the VW in the dead of Montana winters. I would drive around with my sunglasses on in the '67 Bug with the sunroof open on a bright sunny -20 degree day, with the auxiliary heater cranked up and dream that I was in a warmer climate. :smiled
 
OK, last year, I started a blog, and spent a lot of effort to write some interesting articles there, many but not all focused on C-Dorys and C-Brats. Some still read quite well, such as "Life Without Touch" and, to me, "The Turkish Lesson." "Life Without Touch" evidently has a large following in Korea, judging from the comments posted. Policy makers from Bush to Obama and whoever follows them need to read "The Turkish Lesson" to understand why their policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most anywhere in the Muslim Middle East, are doomed from the start. The article "What's in a Name," about the founding of the C-Brats, drew an interesting response from Dale, Fishwisher of CDOGs. You might be interested in taking a look at some of those 2009 articles.

But I soon found it was too much work to produce interesting articles on a regular basis! No articles between June 2009 and September 2010! So I decided to resurrect the blog with a much more modest goal - to journal our Lake Powell trip. If you want to see why Lake Powell is such a special place, to which we will return again and again.

The blog is here. I invite you to leave comments if you are so inclined!
 
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My blog has been dormant since last year, when I chronicled our Lake Powell vacation.

I have now written up "The Vacation from Hell," which can be found here.
 
Been a while, but I have a new blog post up here about our new RV. There is also a post from last November about our Sayulita, Mexico, vacation. Offered for your amusement, or if you are really just bored or something!
 
It is difficult to write a blog post that has a point, not just "we got a new RV." Once I settled on the theme "You're alive. Do something" the rest just kind of wrote itself. This one, folks, is really about what we are going to do with the rest of our lives in the next phase, retirement.


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Pat, Keep 'em coming>

Harvey
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OK, here are Days 1 - 5 of our Blaine to Comox cruise with Garry and Vicki on Amy Marie, Jan on C-Change and David on Anna Leigh. I will edit this later to put in the pix, but here are the basics! Enjoy!
 
Hi Pat say Hi to Casey tell him I'll see him on 8/7/12 I miss the PNW. I can't wait to get out there . Take care and be safe .Jim (jennykatz)
 
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