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rubbachicken
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| THIS weekend is the VW Classic in Irvine...1.5 hrs. north of S.D. It is a great show with possibly parts for your Vanagon at the adjoining swap meet. Mostly aircooled but there will be a row for Vanagons. |
shame, i'm staying put here until monday, just too tired
we've been trying to catch show's on our trip, i think we've made 6 or 7 now 
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BillWYellowstone
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Regarding PeFo. It is bad juju to take from there, it brings bad luck, the park receives many pounds a month back from folks that took it with them and felt unlucky, and have returned the booty.
Same thing actually goes for all National Parks, yoou cannot remove things found here. Should not even move items.
Except for books you buy from my bookstore here. You can buy these and take home.
Don't miss Zion! Or Bryce, or Mesa Verde. You can skip Vegas.
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rubbachicken
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| BillWYellowstone wrote: |
Regarding PeFo. It is bad juju to take from there, it brings bad luck, the park receives many pounds a month back from folks that took it with them and felt unlucky, and have returned the booty.
Same thing actually goes for all National Parks, yoou cannot remove things found here. Should not even move items.
Except for books you buy from my bookstore here. You can buy these and take home.
Don't miss Zion! Or Bryce, or Mesa Verde. You can skip Vegas. |
yep, all we took from the petrified forest, were pictures
we didn't know about mesa verde, we saw the rest, yes, we should have maybe skipped vegas
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70coupyel
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| THIS weekend is the VW Classic in Irvine...1.5 hrs. north of S.D. It is a great show with possibly parts for your Vanagon at the adjoining swap meet. Mostly aircooled but there will be a row for Vanagons. |
shame, i'm staying put here until monday, just too tired
we've been trying to catch show's on our trip, i think we've made 6 or 7 now |
You are little over an hour from one of the largest VW shows in the world.
Don't kick yourself in the butt after it's over.  
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Mrs. rubbachicken
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject: Lucy is going North! |
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We are in the bay area, and after a week of just "hanging low", visiting facebook, and Pixar, we have decided to move on...
So onward we go! heading north on 1 then 101 all the way to WA. If you have any recommendations.... any thoughts of things we aught to NOT miss...
or If you are on our way or slightly off our way, and want to meet up... please contact us:)
we are planning on trying to make the terrafin 14 bus run from Portland to Ventura on the 29th... if you are thinking of doing it too we would love to hear from you. and perhaps we can caravan on the run together.
See you soon:)
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kuleinc
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Summers420us
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| How 'bout an update on the adventures? |
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DAIZEE
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Yeh, make it about you two and your vans and schenanigans to keep it in Vanagonland! About time we got some updating from you. 
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Mrs. rubbachicken
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So sorry to have been keeping you guys waiting for our posts... we have been a bit behind on posting...
I have written out a post, and will have the Runbbachicken add some pics tonight! 
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rubbachicken
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Here are a few words to re-cap some of our travels over the past 5 weeks:
we left Mountain view for the northern CA coast. headed up the 101. Windy hilly roads.... pretty, but made me sea sick just going on them windy roads. 
Drove through the Red woods. Didn't take Lucy through the famous big Redwood drive-through tree. She wouldn't fit, with the Westie top:(
this is in sequoia national park.
When we got to the border with OR we decided we needed a break from windy hilly roads, and drove inland to See Crater Lake...OOOOHHHHH How BEAUTIFUL!!! Even though the road was lined with 2-3 feet of snow Rubbachicken still liked the view, though he didn't fail to complain about it!! 
On our way up, we stopped at a fish hatchery, with fish ladders... They were sorting them as they came in to the hatchery up the ladders from the ocean, after the sorting process they then release them to rivers around OR for spawning. VEY COOL to watch:)
we then went to talk to the people fishing on the banks of the river, and one of them GAVE us his catch of the day!!! (he said he had 15 in his freezer!!!)
So here we are with a 10 pound freshly caught salmon....
we quickly fillet it, and since we didn't have ice and there was plenty of snow on the ground... we filled our cool-box with snow and laid the freshly fillet salmon on our snow... we thought we were SO clever:)
we spent the weekend in Portland, then Headed up to Tacoma WA. for the 4th of July festivities:) The next week was one BBQ after the next, with NO rest for the wicked! we stuffed ourselves silly!!! we spent a whole day walking around Seattle, with http://www.seattlefreewalkingtours.org/ SO WORTH IT if you are going to Seattle!!!
Pike St market was a wonder of smells, sights, and sensations!FUN!!!
visited Mt. Rainier, spent a beautiful overnight at the visitors center base of mountain.
on our way back from the mountain, we spent an afternoon at the LaMay family car foundation. We are now Quazy famous on their page:) they have over 500 Vintage, restored and waiting to be restored cars and they give you a private tour!!! AWESOME!
We then took a week drive around the Olympic Peninsula, winding our way through Lavender fields, Raspberry picking, and Beautiful landscapes. Though it was too chilly to go into the water in the beaches.
we drove along the Colombia river parallel to OR. and crossed over down river, where peaches, nectarines Cherries and apricot orchards were dominating the sides of the roads as well as vineyards:) yum! The roads all over OR and WA are LINED with WILD BLACKBERRIES! this is the time to be there FOR SURE!!!
The OR coast was MY favorite! PRETTY! though most of the time covered in fog, the beaches are accessible, and beautiful! What a drive! Though the skies were grey most of the time and the roads covered in fog, it was STILL worth it!
By this time Rubbachicken was sick of the Grey and Fog and wanted sunshine... so we made our way to the high way and hightailed it out of OR and back to SUNNY CA, Back to Mountain View... Where we have friends who have a POOL!!!
And here we are...
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Summers420us
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| Is Mountainview where you plan to make your home? My family and I after meeting you guys in Key West last early spring, have had a lovely time following your adventures and wondered if you had found the end of the rainbow yet. |
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jwallis
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Damn man I didn't know you were out west this summer. I was everywhere from san diego to vancouver from may-october in the van by myself (with the occasional friend/couchsurfer). Just got back to Austin about 2 weeks ago, too bad we never hooked up-
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rubbachicken
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we are for the moment nesting around san diego, no real work as yet, i had some part time mechanical work, that has finished 
looking for permanent mechanical work here, or more part time, if someone needs work doing to VW's down here, please don't be shy.
mrs rubbachicken is picking up some part time shifts in catering
still trying to have as much fun as we can afford
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SteveVanB
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FWIW, Mark knows his way around a Volkswagen.....
PS. We'll save you a seat 'round the campfire this New Years if you're jonesin' for some S'mores.....
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Wild Bill
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Not only does Mark know his way around a VW he knows his way inside a VW. A great VW Mech and and Great person to know. Thinking of you guys often!.
Mark Hard at work at our March 2012 Tech session.
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joseph928
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:25 pm Post subject: Mark |
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FWIW, Mark knows his way around a Volkswagen.....
PS. We'll save you a seat 'round the campfire this New Years if you're jonesin' for some S'mores..... |
 X2- we miss you guys, had a great time in Moab and when you stayed with us in Flagstaff. Keep posting so we can keep track of you! from NO. ARIZONA 
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rubbachicken
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i can't believe it's more than a year since the last post,
thank you for the positive thought's guys.
so our adventure ended, for now, one day i will add a bunch more pictures.
soon we will be starting our next adventure, not a traveling one this time, but our first adventure into parenthood, what excitement that will bring us, i have no idea.
i can't wait
he will get to know vanagon life, and i hope he will be a tinkerer when he's old enough
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DAIZEE
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When is the big day?
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joseph928
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Cool! Need to come to syncro solstice , need to brush up on my EMT skills. Good to see you at BBB this year. PS licker misses you.
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