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justcruzin
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 Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:23 pm Post subject: Bus Vacation 2014 |
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Well, I did it. I convinced my hubby to take the bus on a travel vacation!! We started off going camping with some other bay window bus friends. We went to Guallala Point Regional Park to camp for 2 nights.
All packed and ready to go.
Nice and sunny!
Although earlier in the trip we did hit some rain.
First stop, about 20 miles from home. LOL We were hungry as we left just before lunch.
First nights fire.
Towel rack. 
I was able to go kayaking while we were there. My hubby and our friend had to lower the kayak down a bank to get it into the water. Was really fun trying get into it in thigh deep water. LOL I managed though.
When we first got to the campground the ranger had told us about the huge killer raccoons and said to make sure we kept our food in the buses. We never thought they would come around while we were sitting by the campfire. They are now known as the marshmallow theives. LOL they stole a whole back of marshmallows off the table right behind our backs. I saw him getting into the back and when I stood up to try to scare him, he took the whole bag and ran.
Sunday morning, after a quick fix of a loose valve, we said good bye to our friends and we headed off towards Fort Bragg.
From Fort Bragg we cut over on Hwy 20 to Hwy 101. We went to Florence Or. and spent the night there.
I found this place along the way. Had to stop and get a photo. See why??
Just a quick stop to see if the VW's were still in a spot we had seen before. They weren't.
Watching movies at the campground.
I was going to try to stop and any murals I could find and get pics for the mural thread here on the Samba, this is the only one we stopped at the whole trip. LOL
This is another thing I wanted to do at each state. It was ok on 101, but we hit I5 to go to Washington and it didn't look to safe to stop at their welcome sign.
Our first Ferry ride. Going to Anderson Is. Washington to visit our friends.
We spent the night there, then the next day we went to Whidbey Is. to visit friends there. Waiting on yet another ferry.
The view from our friends window.
They have visitors every morning and night.
Our friends found us a place on the island that dealt with VWs. We bought a few things.
All loaded on the trailer to go back to our friends to figure out how to load it on the bus to go home. LOL
Figured it out.
Time to feed the dear an apple,
Time to go home. Once again, waiting for a ferry.
We stopped at as many as these we could find. LOL
Almost home. Mt. Shasta.
We made it home and this is what the inside of the bus looked like. LOL
Ahhh, all back to normal.
We had a great time. Spent 8 nights and 10 days in the bus. The last night we couldn't find an open tent camping campground so we opted for the last room that Best Western had available in Shasta City. I forgot to write the mileage down when we left but when I figured it out via maps, we did 1850 miles not including all the side trips to campgrounds and other places we stopped at. The bus ran like a champ, well except for when it didn't want to idle. With suggestions of some VW people we met along the way, we finally figured it out to be a wire for the fuel cut off. It was connected but only hanging on the coil side with one strand of wire. Once we fixed that, it was good to go.
Can 't wait to do it again.
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Xevin 
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Fantastic. Very jealous  |
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busdaddy
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That looks like it was awesome!, thanks for sharing!
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ultralite
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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"Well, I did it. I convinced my hubby to take the bus on a travel vacation!!"
Lucky dude, this is usually the other way around. Great pics, thanks for sharing!
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wcfvw69
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Awesome looking trip with so many terrific photos. It's nice seeing folks using there bus for what they were made for, ROAD TRIPS. I'm glad your trip was un-eventful mechanically. Proof that a bus can be reliable if maintained correctly.
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camit34
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Very cool trip!
I went up and down the 1 a couple years ago. Great little coastal road.
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EZ Gruv
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Fun stuff. Thanks for sharing!
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