1972 VW van

me and chris koop driving in downtown atlanta during the '96 olympics. cbc taped a whole evening with us - oh, and olympian michelle sawatsky - and of course, paid for the whole thing.

broken down in cincinnati, just off the freeway running through the city.

parked in downtown atlanta because we couldn't find a hotel room. win-win.

this is my 72 vw van. both pix taken either at or enroute to the atlanta olympics. the top picture shows me and chris koop trying to fix the accelerator cable just off the freeway in cincinnati. the second one is where we parked the van - right downtown atlanta during the olympics - to sleep. (you can't really notice the angle but there was one which caused us to roll out of our beds at night.)

this van also took deb and my folks to sarasota florida in 1996 for a visit. the sidewalls - is there were any - on the tires were so week i thought we were going to die on the freeway amid all the semis. blown from side to side - one blowout and we were all dead.

driving with my folks was like driving with kids. "did you pee? do you want something to drink?" and you know how kids see the golden arches and want to pull in? well my folks were like that with 'crackerbarrel.' we had to distract my mom, "look at those magnificent hills on the left mom." so she wouldn't see another crackerbarrel and beg for us to pull in to buy some more chachkees and eat more biscuits and gravy.