Bus Camping 9/19 & 9/20 Finnon Lake (near PlacervilleCA)

BigBlueVW.blogspot.com · Post by **BigBlueVW.blogspot.com** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:20 pm

I'm in for Saturday Night. Hitting the VW show in Vacaville on the way...

regis101 · Post by **regis101** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:39 pm

Due to scheduling, we will only be able to come up for Saturday and Sunday.

I was really looking forward to a side trip on Friday to Apple Hill with the fam but oh well.

pjalau · Post by **pjalau** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:09 pm

Hi Regis, bummer about that, see you Saturday

I'm taking the day off from work and relaxing, going to take the slow road up to Placerville.

Joe, when do you plan on leaving? I'll join you on the drive up.

-Peter

Gypsie · Post by **Gypsie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:15 pm

Yall don't fergit to take pix.

static · Post by **static** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:05 pm

I am already up here. Weather is perfect!

Gypsie · Post by **Gypsie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:59 pm

do you have a cell type wifi connection

Junk 2 Funk · Post by **Junk 2 Funk** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:13 pm

I'll be leaving tomorrow around 4:30 from Oakland. If anyone else is like me and has to stick around the bay area til late in the day, I'm open to a mini-caravan. If not, I'll see you all there!

static · Post by **static** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:35 pm

And it was great! Pictures shortly.

regis101 · Post by **regis101** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:19 pm

Just after 7pm as I write. Just unloaded everything and slammed the kids into the bath. Grubsters to the max they are. Played hard. Caught fish. We ended up going to three places on Apple Hill. Earlier we had breakfast at Mel's. I'll post pic's tomorrow. It was a good time with good people.

Junk 2 Funk · Post by **Junk 2 Funk** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:31 pm

Yeah, it was a good time. Glad to meet everyone and we're looking forward to the next trip!

pjalau · Post by **pjalau** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:27 am

Great meeting everyone again (and some for the first time).

Nice mellow campout, fun playing with the dogs, watching the kids run like rabbits, I even had fun recovering the chair (for various values of "fun".)

If only we had more of these wonderful slow weekends, full of stars, kind folks, new and old friends.

"My my my it's a beautiful world..." - Colin hay

-P

pjalau · Post by **pjalau** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:51 am

Friday, I headed out mid afternoon toward Antioch/Pittsburg so I could take Hwy 160 to Sacramento. I got passed by a bunch of these:

Some of them perilously close to the ground:

I've written about hwy 160 on my blog before, it's got some great bridges:

I arrived a little late, but woke up the next morning to a few other busses, and the company of Dick's Dog Sweety:

These fine people:

Some others rolled in Saturday mid-day including this weird one:

Regis made it:

And Joe got ahold of my camera:

I got bored and recovered a seat, you know, in my spare time:

And left sunday mid-day with Brett following me:

Brett and I went looking for VW antiques in Placerville, found none, did find an excellent Tri-tip BLT sandwich for lunch, and stumbled across this:

Points to those who know what it is.

These happy people waved at me in while we were stuck in traffic outside of Vacaville.

I'll write up my fun carb experience later.

Excellent trip joe, thanks for organizing.

Next year?

PS. If you want to see all my VW related pics, feel free to click away here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjalau/set ... 142992570/

static · Post by **static** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:50 pm

"Rap-master pjalau"

PS. If you want to see all my VW related pics, feel free to click away here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeehrlich/sets/

pjalau · Post by **pjalau** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:08 pm

OK, in fairness, my emblem clips were... not correctly put on, and I needed to redo the front, so the emblem begot the vw gang sign, which begot the dew rag, and so on and so forth.

But thanks for the picture. My wife will remind me "yup, married you by choice... <sigh>"

-P

Gypsie · Post by **Gypsie** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:13 pm

Nice photos.

One of my faves:

pjalau wrote:

"Yes, Comrade, I do have wodka. Did you bring the olives..."

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Bus Camping 9/19 & 9/20 Finnon Lake (near PlacervilleCA)