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UZI
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It's a great trip. I made as far as Gros Morne in 99. Check out the Cabot Trail. There is a VW guy in PEI. Doesn't have anything left but he'd be glad to see a bus come thru. Dave something. When you get off the ferry just drive til you see him. Ask around for the guy that used to have all the VWs
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velvetgreen
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| I believe the person you are referring to is David LaVie in Charlottetown. Last time I spoke with him he was all in to Harley's |
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mpribanic
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Have fun, Eh! Sounds like a great trip! But remember...Pics or it didn't happen, yo!
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Craig
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We're on our way this morning, we thank you who posted, messaged, or called with advice. We'll post along the way.
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velvetgreen
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| Have a great trip Craig- take lots of pictures, bring something warm and keep us posted! |
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BulliBill
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I hope you have an excellent adventure! We'll be following this thread, so post stories an photos of your progress as you can! Happy vintage travels!
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ToolBox
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| If you can, the first chance you get buy an EZ Pass. It will make the toll roads and some bridge crossings quick and easy. |
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Enkiel
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we went to PEI exactly 9 years ago on our honeymoon trip.
PEI is a lovely place, and there's very good camping spot around the island. But do not try the lobster chips, they're aweful! 
If anything i'd recommend you to avoid any highway inside New Brunswick. those are very boring (like the 2) |
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zuggbug
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Have fun
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Craig
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:57 pm Post subject: Traffic Jamming |
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Stuck in D.C. traffic. I got someone to mail me a pic. |
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Craig
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:11 am Post subject: Strangers with cameras in traffic |
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I got another motorist to snap the bus from the rear. I have to choose better photographers. Did I get photo bombed?
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BarryL 
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| Going in to NYC? How does that work "getting a motorist to"? |
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Craig
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| Going in to NYC? How does that work "getting a motorist to"? |
It's new? They're bored sitting in traffic? But it's not like they won't be jaded eventually by it also. They're damn sure not intimidated by the proximity of two rolling vehicles to hand over the email address. The other photograph was taken by a New Yorker as well in D.C. traffic. I doubt that anyone would do it if I were driving a '94 S-10. |
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BarryL
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| They're damn sure not intimidated by the proximity of two rolling vehicles to hand over the email address. |
That's rad. I thought maybe your phones Blueteethed together and somehow knew your hash-e-dress or somesuch. I still have to stand by my kitchen wall and hold my heavy black Bell corded rotary phone. Your bus is so perfect. I love that whole area you are doing for your trip. Everything is such eye-candy. |
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orangebug60guy
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Craig,
I think I saw you traveling North bound on 395 this morning in CT around 10:30am. Bus looked great!
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Craig
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Yes, that was we on our way to Otter River State Forest. We needed a rest from two straight days of I95. The bus is far from perfect, and more so, I have nothing to do with any perfection it may possess. We're on our way to Stan's in Natick, MA tomorrow morning before the great leap into Canada.
Barry, blueteethed iPhones would have been rad 40 years ago, bumpdrafting and passing beers going down the road was what we did on the way home from school. |
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Clara
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Strangers with cameras in traffic |
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| Craig wrote: |
I got another motorist to snap the bus from the rear. I have to choose better photographers. Did I get photo bombed?
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I like this picture, the clouds floating in the sky, a legible road sign so we know where you are, the converging lines give a sense of motion,
and the photographers face with a Billy Idle-esque sneer tops it off.
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Craig
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Strangers with cameras in traffic |
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I like this picture . . . |
Yeah, she is pretty sly. I was able to see that pic less than two minutes after I asked her.
We're at Stan's in Natick waiting for him to open.
We stayed at Otter River State Forest in Massachusetts last night; a super nice campground.
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Stocknazi
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"In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines."
I was wondering the same thing about how you were getting pics on the move. I thought you were passing your camera to someone on the road.
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Craig
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Stan and I worked on the bus all day Monday fixing crap that I did not know how to fix (an exhaust bark that had been getting louder the last couple of days) and other stuff that I did not know needed fixing (a balky stock distributor). We spent a couple of hours this morning trying to make the distributor work better. I ended up borrowing an 009 for the rest of the trip.
Linda and I decided to stop early at a KOA in Southern Maine to do laundry and rest after little sleep the last two nights. We are the only campers in the tent zone. It's good to get out of that Norteastern Corridor; driving on I95 is much less stressful in NH and Maine. We're at a little over a thousand miles. The weather is a nice change from the high nineties that we have been living this summer in Piedmont Carolina. We'll be in New Brunswick tomorrow.
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