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October 21, 2004
ready, steady... GO!
things are looking good for this weekend!
- mark is working on the starting problem-- he was able to get his hands on a starter, and they even knocked part of the price of the part off because they thought it was too high.
- lonnie thinks the starter i have on there is the original 22 year old starter. if so-- that's pretty amazing, because it seriously starts the thing right up every time. well, except for when it does nothing at all.
- mucho thanks to georg and sarah for carting me to and fro today-- and to d. for carting me around quite a bit in the last few weeks.
- and mucho thanks to sarah and christa for all the sewing help, wow.
- and mucho thanks to everyone who has listened me go on and on about my dang van, and been supportive through it all. you guys rock!!!
- mucho thanks also to chris-- who is picking up the nbeast t-shirts for me from the printer in carrboro.
i checked my map today, thinking i'd have to put a lot of time into planning a route on all secondary roads-- but it turns out the 15 goes straight up almost all the way to Luray-- and i think the mileage will actually be less than taking the interstate. so i am very hopeful that this will be an extremely pleasant journey.
last night i replaced the bit of rubber gasket that was starting to fall off the camper top, and which was probably responsible for at least some of the dampness problems inside the van. so i'm feeling like she's in rockin' good shape for this trip.
oh, and mr. metaphor dropped me a line today. yay!
Posted by lisa at October 21, 2004 01:39 PM | TrackBack
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Have a great trip!
Posted by: shayne on October 21, 2004 03:19 PM
bon voyage!
Posted by: pinky on October 22, 2004 04:39 PM
Did you make it?? How were the mountains?
Posted by: Sarah on October 23, 2004 07:52 AM
Just an update since she won't be home until tonight, she DID make it, and a good time was had by all. She even parked 9 Westy at the car show and it got a lot of attention! 9 Westy also made an excellent camper and kept Lisa dry while the rest of us poor tent-camping shmucks got soaked Saturday night :)
Posted by: Steve Meister on October 25, 2004 10:11 AM
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