This is sort of a warm up --- Linda and I are leaving mid-September for an extended trip in our new 23' Class A whose name is 'Peanut'. The previous owners christened her that because they also had a 40 ft bus RV that made the 23 footer look like -- well, a peanut.
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"PEANUT"
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I'm trying to get used to blogging regularly and posting/sorting/deleting pics as I take them. Otherwise I'll end up with thousands of pics that will never be looked at because there are too many and within weeks we won't even remember where they were taken. Plus I need to get used to the blogging interface -- hopefully the posts will get better looking as I learn.
The trip plan is this. We plan to drive West from home is Mississauga ON until we hit the ocean and then turn left --- and I give Linda full credit for that phrase. We will visit my family in Saskatchewan, a few friends in BC (Pender Island, Courtney and Victoria) and a friend in Napa CA. Other than that everything is open and we'll decide as we go.
A Few Bus Events............
BusFusion
The biggest
BusFusion ever --- 212 buses on the second weekend in June under sunny skies.It was the first year since 2009 that our friend Mikie and I weren't running things and it was great to relax and visit with folks while the new gang did the work. A few pics.........
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| Nancy and Kathy in Kathy's Van |
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| Philty Phil and I |
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| I try on Phil's new guitar glasses |
West River Westies -- July 14th weekend
Our first trip to this event. Thoroughly enjoyed it despite very hot weather. Luckily there is a convenient river to cool off in. The big event at WetWesties is the tubing regatta which has people tubing down the river in decorated inner tubes and water toys of every description --- ostensibly a race but no discernible winner was declared that I was aware of. Gee, maybe I won.............
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| Michele's designer float and sunhat |
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| A very mellow bus driver |
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PVC pipe pontoon sailboat with live pontoons
If there had been prizes this should have won something
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Had a bad day today (July 16) ---- the van wouldn't start this morning as we prepared to leave a state park near Syracuse where we'd camped after leaving West River Westies. I called Orville the guru at Peterborough VW (a very good friend to have) and started messing with the fuel injection system under his direction -- 4 phone calls and 90 minutes later I was about to give up and decided on one last try --- on this attempt I forgot to tighten a bolt on the fuel distributor that I had been tightening and loosening ---- so when a fellow camper cranked the van it sprayed gas in both my eyes in a fine spray at 35 psi --- flushed my eyes out -- got to Emerg and got a clean bill of health --- spent a few hours on the phone and ended up getting towed to a shop in Rochester who can look at it tomorrow and will call Orville for guidance --- got a cheap rental car and am writing this from a local Motel 6 after a nice pub dinner in lovely downtown Rochester. This town really misses the glory days of Kodak and cameras that took film...........
