[tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
He made of had them in that bus; he had everything else.
Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It can only be Swedish if it
has the Swedish Bikini Team inside.
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 07:04 -0700, sammie smith wrote:
> His bus looks like you would find a backwoods Swedish hippy driving
> it. But the guy looks and talks like an Aggie engineer with a degree
> in philosophy. No beard, short haircut and clean clothes. The reason
> for the Swede comment was not meant to offend anyone, but John the
> owner is a Swede. His dad was a Swedish immigrant.
>
> Will Wood wrote:
> How to be a stankfoot hippy?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Brian Denning
> >Sent: May 24, 2007 7:55 AM
> >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
> >
> >what's the title of the book? sounds great, wish i could of
> made it to mtn
> >view.
> >
> >
> >>From: sammie smith
> >>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [tcb] side bar on trip report
> >>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
> >>
> >>Went to the Mtn View show. Saw the greatest bus ever, even
> better than
> >>Murray. Sorry that everyone on the TCB list did not get to
> see this bus.
> >>Driver/owner John Lago from Oshkosh WI. Quote from sign on
> windshield.
> >>"Daily Driver for 40+ years. Totaled twice, on fire 3 times,
> and dropped
> >>through the ice once. How many miles? Only the Shadow knows.
> From
> >>Florida to the Yukon, and close to both coasts. Been through
> 2 trannys,
> >>many motors. Recently a 2000 mile two-week trip to Georgia.
> Before that,
> >>a 5,000 mile ride to Newfoundland. Was there ever trouble?
> Sometimes
> >>you're the bug and sometimes you are the windshield."
> >>
> >> The bus is a 62 Kombi that the owner bought as a youngster
> in 1966. He
> >>has modified this bus for roughing it in the Yukon and ice
> fishing in
> >>Wisconsin. It has a wood stove made from stainless steel to
> heat the
> >>interior and cooking when camping. It has a stainless steel
> trap door in
> >>the cargo floor for drilling through the ice and ice
> fishing. There is no
> >>interior in the rear except for a home made bunk along the
> left rear wall
> >>of the bus. Front seats, driver and passenger, are aluminum
> and web lawn
> >>chairs. Interior toilet is a hardwood seat with hole that
> holds a zip lock
> >>baggy. Fishing rods are mounted on the interior roof. Roof
> rack for
> >>carrying canoe. No front bumper cept for spare tire that
> hangs on the
> >>nose. Rear bumper home made from heavy steel. Rope pull
> start mounted on
> >>crank pulley of engine as taken from a 4 cylinder snow
> mobile. Works like
> >>a charm and starts on first pull as demonstrated by the
> owner. Every nook
> >>and cranny of the interior of the
> >> bus is designed to hold something useful for the owner who
> takes extended
> >>trips and literally lives out of the bus and off of the
> land.
> >>
> >> Owner has also written a book about the bus, philosophy of
> life, and
> >>whatever else came to mind. Read it completely at almost one
> sitting. If
> >>you are interested it is $15 and available at Lunchbreak
> Press, PO Box 703,
> >>Oshkosh WI 54903. Appears to be a self published book and
> has no ISBN on
> >>the book. Worth the read for guys who like busses. Not sure
> about the
> >>gals. Book written under name of John Bock. According to
> John, because
> >>that's his favorite beer.
> >>
> >> He is supposed to be at the Funfest in Effington IL in a
> couple of weeks
> >>if anyone on the list is going and want to catch some
> interesting
> >>conversation with John, buy his book and look at his bus.
> Should have his
> >>traveling companion with him, very large brown Collie mix
> dog.
> >>
> >> Meeting John and the bus made the trip, even without all of
> the other
> >>things that you normally get traveling a long way in a VW
> and though the
> >>mountains of hillbilly hollow AR to a VW show.
> >>
> >>
> >
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