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| The adventure ends! [message #132152] |
Sun, 26 June 2011 21:17  |
Rickmo
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Location: Gladwin, Michigan
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We have arrived safely back home after over 5000 miles of GMC'ing! We saw some amazing sights and made some awesome memories. Thanks for all of your help with our travel bumps 
Tomorrow we start cleaning and doing more fixes on the coach.
Rick Seebeck
Gladwin Michigan
1973 Canyon Lands
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| Re: [GMCnet] The adventure ends! [message #132156 is a reply to message #132152] |
Sun, 26 June 2011 21:50  |
Ken Henderson
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Location: Americus, GA
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Rick,
Congratulations. You made an amazing recovery from your engine
failure so shortly before your trip. And your success in overcoming
the problems along the way is very admirable.
Now that you're home and hopefully have some free time. I'm sure most
of us would like to hear more about the details of your repairs. For
example, just how did you R&R the engine. Any photos? All of us here
learn from the experiences of others, but only if they're shared so we
know what did and didn't work.
Ken H.
Americus, GA
'76 X-Birchaven w/Cad500/Howell EFI+ & EBL
www.gmcwipersetc.com
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Rick wrote:
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> We have arrived safely back home after over 5000 miles of GMC'ing! We saw some amazing sights and made some awesome memories. Thanks for all of your help with our travel bumps 8o
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> Tomorrow we start cleaning and doing more fixes on the coach.
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76 X-Palm Beach
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| Re: [GMCnet] The adventure ends! [message #132214 is a reply to message #132197] |
Mon, 27 June 2011 09:17 |
James Hupy
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Traveling in an RV is not about destinations. We all know what our final
destination is going to be, and most of us are not looking forward to
getting there anytime soon. Our family started camping adventures by
backpacking. Started with short weekend rambles to streams, waterfalls,
hiking trails with panoramic views, expanded it to several days. Then
decided to do the Pacific Crest Trail from Oregon/Cal border to Bonneville
Dam on the Columbia River. We couldn't do the whole trail in one outing, so
we did it in stages. Kids were 6 and 12. They still talk about those trips
today, and the oldest will be 50 in Nov. Moved on to a 10 x 13 Wall tent,
wore it out, Got a 10' Pickup Camper, went all over the western US with
that. Moved up to a used stick and staple Open Road class C 25 footer,
reworked it, and sold it when we went into business in 1993. Always lusted
after a GMC, looked at them when they were new, tried to scheme how to get
enough money to buy one, Mary talked me out of robbing banks for one. Fast
forward to 2008. Driving down the road, and there it was with a for sale
sign & a phone number. Still looked as sexy as a redhead on saturday night.
Had to turn around and get the phone #. Rest is a familiar story to many
here on the list. After the initial infatuation with a GMC fades, you either
decide that you love them and all the experiences that come with them, or
your love affair with the darn things sadly changes into something else.
Kinda like marriage, or for that matter, like life. Enjoy them while you
can, it is the trip,man, not the destination. As John Denver used to say.
"Farrrr Out, Amazing".
Jim Hupy
Salem, OR
78 GMC Royale 403
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Matt Colie <matt7323tze@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What you did is almost the trip we bought the coach to just to make.
> Haven't made it yet.
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> I, personally tend toward the Hobbit view of adventures, "Nasty disturbing
> uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
>
> I have often heard it said that the difference between and ordeal and an
> adventure is attitude. As the line seems to be that thin, I try to
> categorize coach travel as an excursion. If I want excitement, I'll go
> racing.
>
> Planning our next excursion.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt & Mary Colie
> '73 Glacier 23 Chaumiere (say show-me-air)
> SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: [GMCnet] The adventure ends! [message #132435 is a reply to message #132214] |
Tue, 28 June 2011 08:52 |
Kingsley Coach
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Location: Nova Scotia Canada
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As the Harley guys say, " It's not the destination, it's the ride ! "
Mike in NS
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, James Hupy <jamesh1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> Traveling in an RV is not about destinations. We all know what our final
> destination is going to be, and most of us are not looking forward to
> getting there anytime soon. Our family started camping adventures by
> backpacking. Started with short weekend rambles to streams, waterfalls,
> hiking trails with panoramic views, expanded it to several days. Then
> decided to do the Pacific Crest Trail from Oregon/Cal border to Bonneville
> Dam on the Columbia River. We couldn't do the whole trail in one outing, so
> we did it in stages. Kids were 6 and 12. They still talk about those trips
> today, and the oldest will be 50 in Nov. Moved on to a 10 x 13 Wall tent,
> wore it out, Got a 10' Pickup Camper, went all over the western US with
> that. Moved up to a used stick and staple Open Road class C 25 footer,
> reworked it, and sold it when we went into business in 1993. Always lusted
> after a GMC, looked at them when they were new, tried to scheme how to get
> enough money to buy one, Mary talked me out of robbing banks for one. Fast
> forward to 2008. Driving down the road, and there it was with a for sale
> sign & a phone number. Still looked as sexy as a redhead on saturday night.
> Had to turn around and get the phone #. Rest is a familiar story to many
> here on the list. After the initial infatuation with a GMC fades, you
> either
> decide that you love them and all the experiences that come with them, or
> your love affair with the darn things sadly changes into something else.
> Kinda like marriage, or for that matter, like life. Enjoy them while you
> can, it is the trip,man, not the destination. As John Denver used to say.
> "Farrrr Out, Amazing".
> Jim Hupy
> Salem, OR
> 78 GMC Royale 403
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Matt Colie <matt7323tze@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > What you did is almost the trip we bought the coach to just to make.
> > Haven't made it yet.
> >
> > I, personally tend toward the Hobbit view of adventures, "Nasty
> disturbing
> > uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
> >
> > I have often heard it said that the difference between and ordeal and an
> > adventure is attitude. As the line seems to be that thin, I try to
> > categorize coach travel as an excursion. If I want excitement, I'll go
> > racing.
> >
> > Planning our next excursion.
> >
> > Matt
> > --
> > Matt & Mary Colie
> > '73 Glacier 23 Chaumiere (say show-me-air)
> > SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
> > _______________________________________________
> > GMCnet mailing list
> > Unsubscribe or Change List Options:
> > http://temp.gmcnet.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gmclist
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Michael Beaton
1977 Kingsley 26-11
1977 Eleganza II 26-3
Antigonish, NS
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| Re: [GMCnet] The adventure ends! [message #132436 is a reply to message #132435] |
Tue, 28 June 2011 09:07 |
Dennis S
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| Kingsley Coach wrote on Tue, 28 June 2011 08:52 |
As the Harley guys say, " It's not the destination, it's the ride ! "
Mike in NS
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Harley folks are well read...
***"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
Don Williams, Jr. (American Novelist and Poet, b.1968)
Dennis S
73 Painted Desert 230
Memphis TN Metro
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| Re: [GMCnet] The adventure ends! [message #132594 is a reply to message #132590] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 10:04 |
James Hupy
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Dan, I know that Teri has family out here in Oregon. The next time you guys
come this way, plan on stopping and stay a couple of days. I am currently
about 60 percent finished with a 16' X 32" RV pad for wayward GMCers.
Overlooks my 1/2 acre of lawn and the Little Pudding River that flows
through my back yard. Frequently visited by the resident herd of blacktail
deer and many other creatures. Located about 6 miles East of I-5 in
beautiful downtown Macleay, pop 50 or so. Also have a shop that can handle
most repairs on GMCs, which sees to be full of other peoples Coaches.
Jim Hupy
Salem, OR
78 GMC Royale 403
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Dan Gregg <gregg_dan@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Jim H, I like your story. I hated camping in a tent as a kid. Every time my
> dad needed a rain on the crops we went tent camping. Seemed to rain every
> time.
> Teri and I have done some of the same trips that yall did. We have done
> them in the GMC. That Columbia Gorge is awesome. Has to be one of the most
> beautiful sites in the entire lower 48. Glad our GMC has taken that way a
> few times.
> Dan
> --
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> Soft White LED Lighting
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> http://danandteri.blogspot.com/
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