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Subject:Re: [WetWesties] i went to alaska and for got my bus - no not really - but somebody did
From:Roger Whittaker
Date:Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:09:22 -0800

It always amazes me how a simple thread evolves in this world - what
I expected to see
As a result of my posting of that BAT advert for the 21 window safari is
not at all what came next ...
What wonderfully interesting times we live in
Regards
On Friday, March 7, 2014, Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of those vans could have once belonged to my in-laws, or is that future
> ex in-laws?  They drove a VW van for their move to Alaska from Indiana to
> teach in "Bush" villages.  Three adults and one child for two months on the
> road and they arrived prior to Statehood which as you know was in 1959.  I
> do not know if they arrived here in `58 or `59 but either way it must have
> been quite the trip driving the Alcan in a VW van in those days.  Knowing
> that road the frost heaves and potholes they must have hit are probably the
> same ones there today even though they try to remove them every summer, or
> do they just make us think that is what they are doing as that road is
> always under repair.
>
>
>
> > Mark in AK
> >
> >
>

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