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Kdj
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Location: Naptown
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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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Spent last weekend at the Ocoee and Hiawassee rivers in south East Tennessee. Great weekend even if I took a bit of a beat down on the Ocoee! 
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16CVs
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Joined: February 22, 2004
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Location: Redwood City, California
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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Spent 3 days outside of Sonoma with some other Vanagon folks and a few Vanagon deserters in their Generic vans.
Weather was great and i got to amortize the cost if my van over a few more nights.
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campism
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Joined: September 07, 2007
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Location: Richmond VA
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 6:36 am Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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| 16CVs wrote: |
| ...and a few Vanagon deserters in their Generic vans. |
Good thing some of us have minivan alternatives for those times when Mother Nature executes a surgical strike on our VWs.
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Camper_Velourium
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Joined: August 31, 2025
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Location: Sonoma, CA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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First over nighter in the Westy for us. Probably also her first camping trip in at least twenty years when with the original owner.
Definitely a work in progress. Thought we could limp the original canvas on some more trips but it's actively decaying lol. A little more ventilation never hurt anyone though. |
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campism
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Location: Richmond VA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 4:42 am Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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| Thought we could limp the original canvas on some more trips but it's actively decaying lol. A little more ventilation never hurt anyone though. |
You guys must not have mosquitoes.
Enjoy the camper!
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Camper_Velourium
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Joined: August 31, 2025
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Location: Sonoma, CA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 11:14 am Post subject: Re: Things your van did recently |
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| campism wrote: |
| Camper_Velourium wrote: |
| Thought we could limp the original canvas on some more trips but it's actively decaying lol. A little more ventilation never hurt anyone though. |
You guys must not have mosquitoes.
Enjoy the camper! |
No mosquitoes in the balmy 40s next to the pacific in Northern California haha
Even at the worst of it, mosquitoes are pretty minimal, but probably going to be installing some new canvas before spring. |
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