Thx Paul —

So glad you made it, Allen. Sorry I didn’t get to give you a turn behind Bridget’s wheel. I thought we’d talked about that.

Also glad Linda made it. Will get Karen to return next year, and hope Lois (Dale’s wife) and Roy’s wife (dang! Roy, what’s your wife’s name again?) can make it. Wives are necessary so that i don’t get too self-conscious on the ice cream run.

By the way, I put some more photos here–blogged it.

Julie! Dang! Sorry about that. She’s a trooper.

And why did we not track down Allen and his wife & kidnap them on the ice cream run? Should’ve put them both in my car and rode with you.

Regrets, regrets.

Right on the oil change. Gonna re-set the timing this week, back it off a few degrees, then reset the idle. Betting that gets most of it. Oil change is due & will check the valve lash then. Hopefully all by this weekend, but inlaws coming, so maybe not. I’ll post it up.

Thanks for the kind words about the blog.

Well, I’ve been driving myself crazy on how to post photos. I came close to smashing this
computer a couple of times. Anyhow, I think I got it.
Here are a few I took. This was a great weekend. Great weather, great people.
Roy, I’d like to know how far behind you I was when I arrived at your brother
in law’s house on Sunday.
Nothing broke this weekend…another plus.
Definitely gotta do this again.

Roy and Julia on PA Turnpike.

Queuing up for Friday dinner run.

Group photo before Ice Cream run.

At Kenny’s Ice Cream in Chambursburg.

Hope we can all get together again next year.
Roy, if you get to the in-laws anytime, give me a call…we’ll do dinner.

Well, we made it back.  Pulled into my drive at 6pm.  A little over 1100 miles towing with another 350 while MiGi was under her own power.  Like Bill, we were fortunate to have no breakdowns of any sort.  Our TD’s are so light, they tow beautifully (four wheels on the ground).  I was pulling with a smallish 2008 Mercury Mariner SUV with a 3.0 V6 auto.  I usually get 26mpg.  Towing MiGi, I didn’t use OD except on the flats and got 22mpg.  Usually drove about 5mph below the speed limit.  Any of you VW powered TDers that do not own a tow bar are either very young or are missing out on some of the long distance fun.  The VW tow bar attaches with no tools, and with portable magnetic trailer lights (U-Haul sells them) getting hooked up takes only about 5 minutes (10 if you take a break).  While chasing Wobby to southern Vermont to get ice cream, I got quite the sun/wind burn on my nose.   Richard says that it is perfectly ok to speed up to 70 in a 50mph zone while passing a farm vehicle on a windy hilly 2 lane road with two yellow lines in the Amish countryside of Pa.  (It seemed to work for all of us, but I think that it is only ok if your blood/ice cream level is above .08.)    

It’s legal to pass that way ONLY if the farm vehicle is at least, as the old Rush tune put it, “two lanes wide.” 

Experiment with some tire pressures and I think we can move him up in the standings.