Pete & Teri’s Next Big Adventure

Enjoying our little home on wheels:

Pacific Ocean sunsets…wow…sorry Atlantic, but this is mind-blowing:

Weird sand-castles in the morning:

If you have Quicktime, you should be able to click the link below and navigate around in a 360 degree panorama of the beach at Carpenteria:

Carpinteria QuickTime VR Panorama

Crossing the desert:

Spent a night near Joshua Tree Рa surprisingly hip little town, complete with the funky Beatnik Caf̩ (they even serve real chai!):

Crossing the mountains:

And, as we neared the San Diego-Los Angeles sprawl, what did we see? A gigantic wind farm!

Sigh… we’re getting closer to someplace we can call home.

Peter has already covered our Buses by the Bridge weekend quite well, but I just had to add a couple of my favorite pix.

Sunset, the night we arrived:

Buses and more buses, as far as the eye could see:

For the most part, we spent the weekend alternately freezing (no hookups!) and marveling at all of the pretty V-Dubs. We hadn’t seen many Vanagons or Buses for most of our trip, so this was certainly a nice West Coast welcome.

We camped for three days in Lake Havasu City, at an event called Buses By The Bridge. A gathering of over 250 VW Buses, Vanagons, and Eurovans, plus assorted Beetles, Things, etc. Fortunately, Teri is thoroughly infected with the (excuse pun) VW bug, so she enjoyed the sights and sounds almost as much as I did.

We made a couple of friends, got stuck in the sand (Note: tire chains only make things worse on the beach), and froze our butts off. Here are some more of the vehicles we drooled over:

What a beauty:

Yes, there’s a VW bus under that Winnie shell:

This guy had the sweetest setup – he made a matching teardrop trailer and set up a whole tiki lounge:

There was a polar-bear swim…and you thought the bus-a-bago was insane?

…and finally, here’s our camp. The solar panels really came in handy, camping for three days with no hookups: