Date:         Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:40:14 -0400
Reply-To:     "George C. Caldwell" <beautyandgeek@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "George C. Caldwell" <beautyandgeek@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      us129 trip and more
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com

Just got back from a quick - 11 hours each way - trip to Tapoco, NC.
Highly recommend the Tapoco Lodge. It used to be the ALCO recreation
area. Nearby is the Joyce Kilmer forest, Santeelah Lake with a beautiful
trucked in white sand beach, and plenty of camping pads.

I also heartily recommend the trip over Calderwood Mountain on US129 -
the bikers call it the dragon. 318 curves in 11 miles. Didn't buy the tee
shirt because they only had bike pictures, no big blue syncros. Wimps.

Glad I listened to the list and replaced the car type michelins the PO
had just bought. Put Dunlop Radial Rovers, 27x8.5x14. Would hate to roll
a tire on one of those switchbacks with no guard rails. BTW, averaged 27
mph over 129!

Speedo is now as close to accurate as I can tell checking my watch to the
mile markers.

'87 syncro, 22mph on flat highway, 17+mph in the mountains. Took a 7%, 7
mile grade in third, 4100rpm, 55mph, no drooping turns.

Really love this machine!

Now, I need 2 factory steel rims, cheap, in the Baltimore/DC area. Anyone
just upgraded to alloy?

And would the list member with the tube rear bumpers with the light duty
hitch please email me. I'm interested, but I lost his address.

George
'87 syncro

Oh yeah - last week's thread - I carried water laden c-rat cans in the
swampy jungles  25+ years ago, then saw how the government gave my
replacements dried food for the desert.

Now, I use Lipton noodles with small cans of meat. Premeasure the noodles
(and sauce mix) into a plastic peanit butter jar, place the intact can in
the jar. At the site open the can, mix meat and water, pour into pan and
cook. Close plastic jar, for wash up at home. 6oz roast beef hash and 1/3
package of stroganoff noodles works for me.

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