[Vwdiesel] hitch saga

[Dave Cook]

Well, I decided to try out the hitch for real tonight.  Towed the boat to the lake!  I had my friend follow me with his Pathfinder just in case.  When we got there, I backed the boat all the way into the lake and pulled out to see if it would work.  Kinda like a "touch and go" that a newby pilot does.  It was fine.  So we put it in the water and cruised around for a bit, and it had no problems pulling it out again, and even went up the big hill you have to go up once you are off the ramp fine, too.  


A guy pulling a little John boat with his big Toyota Tundra at the top of the hill was pretty impressed.  He asked if "it came that way?" and took a picture!

I had my friend's wife take a few pics of me on the road.  I added them to the facebook album here:

<http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151123068567598.541544.583537597&type=1&l=0919efd71f>
 
Dave Cook


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 From: Tad <tadc at europa.com>
To: lbaird119 at aol.com 
Cc: davevw at yahoo.com; vwdiesel at vwfans.com 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] hitch saga
 

I lived in Klamath Falls in the 90s... I know the feeling.  And that was before ecommerce got going very big, so basically if you couldn't get it at WalMart or Fred Meyer, you were driving an hour to Meford... if you were lucky enough to find it there.

That was okay though, it was an excuse to get the hell out of K Falls. :)


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM, <lbaird119 at aol.com> wrote:


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>I like to buy local, but they do have to be willing to play ball sometimes.
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 Try living here.  Captive audience.  Even the box stores seem to have the "<snort>  Where else you gonna
>go to buy it?" attitude.  Car dealers are especially bad that way and a LOT of things aren't available even
>though Wenatchee isn't all that small, you have to go to Spokane (3 hrs) or Seattle (2.5 hrs) or order on the
>web.  Price of fuel, even with driving a diesel, it's cheaper to pay the shipping most of the time!  Some of the
>locals try but still, not a set of 454 main bearings in the valley. (or shrink tubing, electronic parts except Radio
>Shack  :-P and so forth).  I even have to order my tennis shoes to get any to fit my skinny feet!
>   Loren
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