There is a thread on the samba about Johnny and his book. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=113113 _____ From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sammie smith Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:59 AM To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: side bar on trip report A Bus Will Take You There, by Johnny Bock; Lunchbreak Press, Box 703, Oshkosh WI 54903, no ISBN, price according to John is $15. Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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. > > _________________________________________________________________ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? You'll love Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migratio n_HM_mini_outlook_0507