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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:58 am Post subject: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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I took the Weekender to West Virginia to pick up my uncle & made an adventure out of it.
Pedestrian bridge in Durham NC
Great setting moon shot
And sunrise
The EV with old glory
Pilot Mountain
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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Scottn59c Samba Member

Joined: December 22, 2016 Posts: 309 Location: Northern CA
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:21 am Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Sweet ride and nice pics. If you've got a van like that, you've got to enjoy it at every turn! _________________ Farfignewton! |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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The next stop (with VW content) was at the New River Gorge bridge. After driving across it, I turned onto the access road that winds down under it, across the river & back up the other side.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Thanks Scottn59c, I've had the Westy for a couple of years now & could never get the family to go camping in it, so I did without them.
So here it is on the street in front of the uncles place.
So I parked a few feet from the river & camped for the evening.
And woke up the next morning to the call of geese that floated by.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Then went exploring.
& found one covered bridge.
And another.
Along with a train station turned museum
And another covered bridge.
The property owner obviously had a twisted sense of humor.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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[email protected] Samba Member

Joined: June 02, 2011 Posts: 1593 Location: Louisville, ky
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Thanks for the photos. That is what it is all about. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Anytime, I wasn't sure how much was too much, I took hundreds more, but lots would get deleted due to lack of VW content.
I also took a different route on the return trip so I could experience even more.
Here's something just north of Roanoke on 220, just outside of a little town called Iron (something (I forgot the other part)).
After getting into Roanoke, the GPS directed me down 81, until I saw an entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway (exit, stage left!) _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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VAEV1993 Samba Member

Joined: January 17, 2014 Posts: 153 Location: Harrisonburg, VA
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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Iron Gate!!!
Thanks for sharing your trip - photos look awesome. _________________ 1993 Weekender - Hula
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli

Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 13326 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: West Virginia Weekender adventure |
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jacobrybrown wrote: |
Iron Gate!!!
Thanks for sharing your trip - photos look awesome. |
Cool! thanks for that.
Here's some of the pics from the Blue Ridge Parkway
Unfortunately, after these pics, the van started having fueling issues that were ultimately resolved by removing the cover on the fuel pump relay & zip tying it closed, but had to hot foot it back, but I do wish I had video of the switchbacks I had to take the van down to get back to the main roads.
Sadly, I didn't encounter another VW camper, van, or air cooled, on the road, the entire trip. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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