Friday, October 28, 2011

One more rogue

The last member of the team is my son Will, shown here with the '73 VW Westy my folks purchased in Germany for their honeymoon in 1972.



The bus had not been driven much in the last ten years, and we had some excitment bringing it to Idaho from New Mexico. the points broke and we had to be towed before we'd hardly gone 20 miles! With the tow truck driver's help (thank you, Milton at Rio Rancho Towing, Bernalillo NM!), we replaced the damaged part and got back on the road. In Utah the starter quit (turned out to be a bad cable) and we had to push start it for the last 400 miles of the trip. There was a huge rain storm, and the windshield leaked and the wiper motor gave up!