Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:03:20 -0500
Reply-To: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Subject: Re: The truth about Florida--Love Bugs
In-Reply-To: "joseph Trussell" <joetruss@hotmail.com>'s message of Tue, 07 May
2002 08:13:41 -0600
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Joe ,
Imagine riding a bike down there, and running through a swam of them!!!
They have a helmit law--- and in about 15 second's I couldn't see
zip----
Had to pull over on the shoulder on my Triumph, and try and clean them
off my sheild---no good--they do nothing but smear---
Threw the sheild away and continued on---
Crazy Place---
Later,
Terry
E-mail message From joseph Trussell
Those "love bugs" are bad news for a Vanagon (or anything else on the
highway for that matter.) I drove through a swarm of them in South
Louisiana a couple of years ago and they covered the whole front of
mine; I could barely see through the windshield.
I stopped about thirty miles later at a car wash and sprayed and
scrubbed the front end, but it was already too late--I was never able to
fully remove the smudge stains from of the paint, bumper, or even the
license plate. When I got back to Denver a few weeks later, I called Ron
and got a nose bra...
Joe T.
Denver, CO
'85 GL 'Bertha'
'66 Westy
----Original Message From: "Terry K.
You are food for everything that crawl's, swims, and flies---
Be sure to install a bug screen on your grill's---it's just about "Love
Bug" season, and these black and orange in flight coitus maxiumus things
will plug up your radiator faster than you can say Jackie Robinson---yor
windsheild will be loaded with them, so siight out the glass will be
impared---
Oh- Yea--I think this is just about when the land crabs start migrating
towards the ocean--don't run any of these bugger's over, as they will
poke a hole through your tire's real quick----
Better have real good sceens on you Van too---the no seeum's will bite
the hell out of you, whlie your napping---
If you go for a dip in the ocean, or gulf coast---be sure to look to
shore once in awhile--look for the red flags they will ocassionally all
of a sudden put up on the beach----
I had no idea what in the hell this meant, until somebody yelled "Shark"
!!!
Oh--one more thng---keep an eye on the weather channel--I think this is
Hurricane season--better buy some hurricane straps for your van to keep
it planted to the ground----
Yea, I liked Fla.-----
I got the hell out of there --got tired of being eaten the
critter's---and getting blown around---
Later,
Terry
E-mail message
Subject: The truth about Florida
Can someone tell me about Florida weather. I' m thinking of going there.
Someone told the weather doesn't really get hot until July and August.
Someone else told me, no, its bad right now (May); another said June was
when it got real bad. So whats the scoop?
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