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vanis13 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2010 Posts: 3100 Location: ABQ NM USA.... Except when not
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 2:04 pm Post subject: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Trying to impress a girl .... and getting her to dig vanagon outings... so get me your coolest ideas
Heading to Pagosa Springs this Labor Day w/e from Albuquerque to spend Sunday at the Folk Fest in town there. Would love to hear your ideas of cool things to do, visit, and where to van camp both around there and between there and here.
If your place is super secret PM/email/call me and I swear to keep it private [email protected] 505-304-5306 _________________ 83.5 Westy with Subaru 2.5, 4 spd manual, center seat, COLD A/C on 134a!, Winter camp heated with an Espar B4 gasoline furnace
www.SuperVanagon.com - some stuff I make
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campism Samba Member
Joined: September 07, 2007 Posts: 4492 Location: Richmond VA
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas requested |
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Just be yourself and be sure to check the van thoroughly before departure. Chicks do not dig breakdowns. _________________ '87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic |
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GWTWTLW Samba Member
Joined: April 22, 2008 Posts: 2174 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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make sure the jump seat is securely fastened... _________________ 89 Syncro Westy - GW 2.5, now with a double knob job
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22670 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Leave copper nuts out of the conversation, unless she brings them up. _________________ .ssS! |
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Tom Powell Samba Member
Joined: December 01, 2005 Posts: 4855 Location: Kaneohe
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Abscate wrote: |
Leave copper nuts out of the conversation, unless she brings them up. |
Brass nuts?
Aloha
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gvisconty Samba Member
Joined: September 10, 2016 Posts: 19 Location: PNW
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas requested |
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campism wrote: |
Chicks do not dig breakdowns. |
Unless you can get it fixed and back on the road within minutes, smiling confidently the whole time. If can do that you're impressive. Bonus points for figuring out her favorite song without asking and whistling it while you work.
(this will only work once) |
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photogdave Samba Member
Joined: April 05, 2004 Posts: 3053 Location: Vancouver Island, B.C.
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figborg Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2015 Posts: 338 Location: Northeast
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Regardless of where you are going:
Cook her a meal in the van and serve wine or beer, then do the dishes. Install dimming interior LEDs and make sure your stereo system is up to par. Make sure to pop the top, unless you are going stealth, of course. Also, wash the exterior and clean the interior.
And yes, above all, be yourself. Enjoy! _________________ -- PF
Providence, RI
1986.5 Westy camper (G year code, grey interior), 2WD, manual transmission, Subaru conversion by Vanaru. Spoiled rotten.
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Vanagon Nut Samba Member
Joined: February 08, 2008 Posts: 10379 Location: Sunshine Coast B.C.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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1. Do not talk too much about your Vanagon
2. Clean it up. Way good.
3. Before she sees your Vanagon, show her this video. (at your own risk JK )
(features a Vanagon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTqPT0Wt7Ws _________________ 1981 Westy DIY 15º ABA
1988 West DIY 50º ABA
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Steve M. Samba Member
Joined: July 30, 2013 Posts: 6833 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Let her drive it. _________________ This free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.
There are seven days in a week. Someday is not one of them. |
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vwwestyman Samba Member
Joined: April 24, 2004 Posts: 5688 Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas requested |
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gvisconty wrote: |
campism wrote: |
Chicks do not dig breakdowns. |
Unless you can get it fixed and back on the road within minutes, smiling confidently the whole time. If can do that you're impressive. Bonus points for figuring out her favorite song without asking and whistling it while you work.
(this will only work once) |
Last year, coming back from watching fireworks in the next town over on July 4th, the fuel pump in my '73 overheated and the engine stopped. We were in a huge traffic jam and the bus was full with the girl I had recently started dating, my foster sons, and her foster daughter.
So I jumped out and pushed the bus over to the shoulder.
She later told me that she thought it was pretty hot that I was able to push the bus over to the shoulder by myself like that, with everyone in it!
In the end, it didn't work out for other reasons. Oh well. _________________ Dave Cook
President, Wild Westerner Club
1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
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vanis13 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2010 Posts: 3100 Location: ABQ NM USA.... Except when not
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:14 pm Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Classic!!
Actually Vanilla Pop is NM Local from Taos and girl is (as am I) a fan so she thought it "Seriously Hysterical". We've actually hoped to find them playing but they have gotten so popular for private events that the public shows are now sparse. _________________ 83.5 Westy with Subaru 2.5, 4 spd manual, center seat, COLD A/C on 134a!, Winter camp heated with an Espar B4 gasoline furnace
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vanis13 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2010 Posts: 3100 Location: ABQ NM USA.... Except when not
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:17 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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So I'm loving all these responses.
I'm hoping someone will respond with that awesome in-the-middle-of-nowhere spot 'cause without that strong alternative the van and its occupants will be relegated to a public campground ...It's all about the company anyway, right?
Keep them coming! _________________ 83.5 Westy with Subaru 2.5, 4 spd manual, center seat, COLD A/C on 134a!, Winter camp heated with an Espar B4 gasoline furnace
www.SuperVanagon.com - some stuff I make |
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dhaavers Samba Member
Joined: March 19, 2010 Posts: 7757 Location: NE MN (tinyurl.com/dhaaverslocation)
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Vanagon Nut wrote: |
...show her this video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTqPT0Wt7Ws |
Fun...and if she has a taste for good beer, grab a sixer and consider together
the strongly romantic overtones of this classic from Deschutes Brewery:
Link
Hope y'all have a GOOD time...!!!
- Dave
PS: No local expertise, but allow me to Google"Pagosa Springs dispersed camping" for you...
PPS: Luckily, I love finding/looking at maps...here's San Juan Nat'l Forest, Pagosa Ranger District:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd538717.pdf
Looks like a lot of potential out there! _________________ 86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
<EDITED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PIXELS> |
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AZ Landshaper Samba Member
Joined: February 08, 2009 Posts: 1698 Location: The Old Pueblo
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 5:03 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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From the father of two daughters, be a freakin' gentlemen. Make sure you hold the door for her when she steps into the tow truck LOL.
Actually I hope this chick is adventurous and Ive got my fingers crossed that your rig makes it out and back. _________________ Support Small Business.
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85 Weekender w/ EJ22
Previously
64, 71, 72, 73, 76, 81, 84, 85 & 87 Campmobiles and Westfalias
and a 67 bug. |
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wontfalia Samba Member
Joined: October 22, 2008 Posts: 108 Location: London KY
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Let her take a nap in the bed as you drive her to the festival. And when she wakes up, make her light the fridge _________________ Don't break the law when you're breaking the law |
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atomatom Samba Member
Joined: May 15, 2012 Posts: 1867 Location: in an 84 Westy or Bowen Island, BC
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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if she won't accept the adventure/thrill of the possibility of the van breaking down you have the wrong van or wrong woman.
here is my dear wife helping bump start (on the prairies) after our starter caught on fire while going 110kmh
_________________ 84 Vanagon Westy, 1.9L, California raised but defected to Canada. |
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Pcforno Samba Member
Joined: October 14, 2014 Posts: 575 Location: Santa Fe, nm
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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There's not much "secret camping" immediately around pagosa. We usually camp by the river at piedra. Lots of free spots. Depending on time check out the west fork San Juan hot springs (6 mile hike). Riff raf brewery or the kip's are good. For fancier food there's La Beuff (French food in west pagosa) or alley house (you'll need reservations) |
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raoul mitgong Samba Member
Joined: July 05, 2009 Posts: 1338 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Depending on you house battery situation, you might want to pick up one of those jumper battery packs from Harbor Freight or FLAPS if you don't have one already.
-d _________________ 84 Westy with a 2.1 (Groover)
86 Tintop Syncro (Crow)
86 Tintop Syncro to Westy project (Tom Servo)
91 Westy (Only the top 12 inches of this van (a burn victim)) |
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bobbyblack Samba Member
Joined: May 21, 2015 Posts: 4353 Location: United States, Iowa
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Tying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO - cool ideas request |
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Steve M. wrote: |
Let her drive it. |
+1
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wontfalia wrote: |
Let her take a nap in the bed as you drive her to the festival. And when she wakes up, make her light the fridge |
+2 _________________ '87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch |
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