You're sure welcome! I'm still here lurking. Life has taken me on many
twists and turns, but man you should see my field of VWs I have on my
acreage north of town. I'm up to about 13 or 14. LOL! I married an
Aussie lady and we're living in our now one-year-old house. Mr. VW is
doing VW restorations out in Colorado not too far from where RMMW was I
believe. I miss the old days of the list. It was all we had in those
pre-facebook days. Now facebook has kind of taken over and other
elements of social media which has just about killed off the email
lists. The streamlined effect of the email list is one that can never
compare. I've often wondered if a VintagVW forum was created similar to
thesamba.com if it would bring back some of the old timers, but with
thesamba being a huge repository of information, it might be redundant.
I'm still thankful that John keeps the list going. I'm kind of bummed
that the archives of the older stuff are gone. What exists are snippets
of the various emails that people saved. I find some of my articles
scattered about online from time to time. I remember Scott Yuppa who
perished in a plane wreck with his father after being on the list for a
short time.
At any rate, when the VintagVW list was going at its strongest, it
filled a void that we had never had before and that was support from a
VW community that was so hard to find in our local worlds. All of a
sudden we didn't feel so alone and had tons of help - the likes of which
we never had before. The gurus finally had a forum to be appreciated
and admired in while they shared their wisdom. I think the absolute
best part of the whole thing was that internet was still in it's infancy
in the private sector and so to figure out how to get online and more or
less configure a computer to get online gave you some street cred so to
speak, and if you were online, you were in-the-know and in good company.
Now anyone and everyone can get online and it isn't as special as it
once was. I remember people thinking I was an outright genious with VWs
and all I ever really did was read and apply what others wrote and then
to explain it in simple terms that everyone could understand. Now
everyone's an expert with the almighty shrine of google at their
service.
This year we are having our 17th annual campout at Indian Cave State
Park in Nebraska. I never dreamed it would last this long. Sadly none
of my VWs run at the moment, but I am feverishly building a small
teardrop camper for my wife and I to camp in so we don't have to run to
a motel as we've done the past couple of years.
Please don't spill the beans Glen as I know you're on this list. :)
Nice to hear from you again and sorry you sold the bug, but if it can
get in the hands of someone who appreciates, that's everything.
NQ
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