[tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
- From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:18:45 -0700 (PDT)
Sounds like a personal goal to correct.
Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: sadly, i'm standing up right
now. :-(
>From: sammie smith
>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The sex is in the bus; not in the conversation. Everyone who has NOT had
>sex in a VW please stand up.
>
>singlecabboy wrote: As the self appointted
>HR Manager of the list ,I am
>certailly glad you didn't rule out sex in our
>conversations about busses.
>--- a1992cabbygirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm sorry, the apologizing to everyone has finally
> > gotten to me. If we become too policitally correct
> > this forum list is going to go downhill very fast.Â
> > We need to be ourselves and have fun with it. I am
> > Texan, Aggie fan, and a blond(sort of) lefty. I
> > get it from all sides. The only topics that
> > should be left alone are politics and religion.Â
> > Those two subjects could be disasterous. Just my
> > opinion.
> >
> > EmÂ
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sammie smith
> > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thu, 24 May 2007 9:04 am
> > Subject: [tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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