Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:01:24 -0500
Reply-To: Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
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From: Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Subject: Re: routes: scenic bypasses.LONG
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From: Martin Jagersand Subject: Bus routes: most scenic bypasses.
>So what are some of these bus routes? I'd love to hear from other
>people what and where their favorite routes are?
Thanks for this tidbit Martin.....
You know, there seems to be two general types of Bus people, (my
generalities) motor heads & cruisers, the motor heads have 10 vehicles in
their back yard and basically spend most of their free time rearranging
their parts to keep one running van , that's what they enjoy, there is
nothing wrong with that..... The cruisers (mostly Westy owners) try and find
what time they can for getting out and feeling their world.... it's
ALIVE.... the ghost in the machine, just makes the magic carpet
move....Why?...who cares?.. until it stops... I've always felt like a
strange bird, because I like my machine, I listen to her, a change in whine,
a lite growl, a different drip...But the REASON I have owned & ran out 3
(now on my 4th) Westies... is WHERE the magic carpet can take me... it's
purely in the VIEW my friends... of course being a Canadian.... I generally
travel with a canoe on my head (I also have a butt about as wide as an otter
tail;^)....The Westy is a nimble turtle, feeling my footing carefully, it
has taken me in & out of many a ruff portage, leaving only muddy tracks &
scratches down her side from the bushes...I enjoy BEING in my Westy,
sometimes as much or more than, traveling in her... But a VW Van is a beast
of burden... and it's the owner's burden to know your van... listen to
her.... she's like an old mystery... always got some new twist up her
sleeve....
I enjoy some of the stories on this list (& because I've been computing
since it was bbs's) I know there is always going to be
static/traffic/newbies/chatter/different opinions...and between the lines
some good STUFF...it's sort of like a big global plaza...lots of noise,
parties, weddings, wakes, show offs...New Volks come on happy... We have a
new baby!!!... others bow out due to the heavy demands of survival in this
world... I have to get off this list I can't take all the messages!!!!....
or others have to (with laden hearts) give up the beast....It is with great
sorrow we have to put our mother turtle up for sale...
But for me it's the STORIES....it's the TRIPS... it's what makes a Westy &
her Clan MAGIC.... and not a magic wagon.... the road is full of vans... but
how many turtles carry their magic like a Westy?...... now as I said
earlier.... there must be as many stories as there are stars.... What I like
about this list, are those stories..... and I know for a fact that there are
some silver tongued story tellers out there lurking in the ether..... Tell
us.... why do you love your Westy.... where has she taken you.... and what
magic has happened?
Rob
87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure (slip&drip..open head surgery in progress)
rountree@planeteer.com
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