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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Buses By The Bridge

Or BBB to us insiders. Okay, THAT was FUN!!! I don't have the official count of VWs, but the highest registration number that I saw was 225. That's right - 225+ volkswagen buses in one place (Don't call them vans!) Most of them were mid-60's vintage in varying degrees of restoration - but all well-loved. It was fascinating! We just don't see many old VWs in Canada for obvious reasons. Air-cooled vehicles don't do well in Canadian winters. I know some of you remember scraping the inside of your windshields and driving with the defroster on full...(Right Dave, Lorne?)

Anyway, we had a blast. Vincent still didn't quite fit in - he was the newest and fanciest unit there, (Yes! Really!) but everybody was very kind. And the people - whoa - what a diverse bunch. Everything from retired army colonels, to Mexican immigrants to young kids less than ½ the age of their vehicles to old hippies. Man, I haven't seen that much tye-dyed clothing since 1969! And when was the last time anybody flashed you a peace sign???

They had slow-drag races, a polar bear swim (thongs were mandatory) a corn-hole toss event, a CV joint assembling contest and about a hundred raffle prizes. We bought tickets on the funky tie-dyed quilt with the VW bus on it, but passed on the others because really, what would we do with a transmission for a 66 splitty?

This is Bob; the reason we were there in the first place. He's the guy that flagged us down and told us about BBB. I followed him around all weekend trying to see what his hair was like under the hat and the only time he took it off, I didn't have my camera with me. (It's shoulder length and grey. )
The official T-shirt. They tell me that bullis is German for bus. I don't know - Ineke is that right?

VWs as far as the eye could see.

A forest of pop-tops.



These ones are for you, Connie:

Yes, that is Janis Joplin on the fridge.



Some of them aren't so pretty.

There's no minimum age limit for tie-died clothing.

We're back in Squaw Lake tonight. We're in the parking lot that we hated the first time that we were here, but we know the showers are clean and it's just an overnight stop anyway, so what the heck. Tomorrow we'll be in Puerto Peñasco. We can't wait to see Carl & Melody again!
There was another amazing sunset tonight (Ho hum - they're becoming quite routine)

I bought some cheap champagne before we left Lake Havasu. $3.99 a bottle. I haven't seen prices like that since the '85 Balloon championships when Bill & I discovered the Hungarian stuff. I couldn't NOT buy it. I think Taz's bear sums up the effect quite nicely.....
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