Bird of the Week Special

[Jon]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "mbulriss" <mbulriss@...> wrote:
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> I love this week's photo! I believe our long term members, Rose Mary Smith
and her mom, Clara, get the longevity in RV'ing award for this week. I had to
lighten the picture up some to see Clara a little better. Anybody have any
pictures to verify that they have been RV'ing or camping longer? What a
wonderful childhood summer vacation Rose Mary had!
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> Please read the attached email that Rose Mary submitted as background on the
picture. She is looking for someone to identify the car and the bus. Who knows
what makes they are?
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> Happy Easter everyone!
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> Mike Bulriss
> 1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
> San Antonio, TX - heading out soon for somewhere!
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>
> Hi Mike
> Thought you might get a kick out of this old photo.
> Me hanging out the door, mom's head just showing at top.
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> When I was a kid we would go up to the Sawtooth Mtns. near Stanley, Idaho. We
lived like hillbillys I reckon, check out the wash board and ICE frig., wood
stove inside the bus. There were 5 of us kids. We had a tent for the girls and a
tent for the boys, while mom and dad slept in the bus. That was real
boondocking! Ice cold water from a creek. We'd spend the whole summer up there.
Dad harvesting poles.
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> Trying to find out what that ole bus was? Think the car was a Kaiser
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> Amazing the roads/climb that bus had to maneuver to get up to camp, not to
mention crossing Hell Roaring Creek.
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> Don't know how they got the old milk cow Bessie up there.
> Horse was a necessity to pull down the logs to the landing.
> This was in the 50's (mid?) I'm sure the bus was an oldster before dad bought
it to convert for our summer use.
>
> Regards
> Rose Mary & Mom (Clara young at 88)
> JP'S White Bird
> making our was north (noooo) from Arizona desert


Love that old picture of rose and her mom. Just looking at that old rig
reminded me of my first fling at motor homeing.

Back in the late 60's I secured a 1951 International Metro Van from the federal
Government for a some of $100 dollar. Of course this was the time of the make
love not war movement and I just had to have a flower powered steep up van.

If you could see inside It had a big bed and a porta Portie made from an old box
with a toilet lid. Also it had a pot bellied stove and I only lite it oft once
(Way to much heat for that small space).

The drivers seat I found in a junk yard and it was an old bus drivers seat with
all the cush one would need.

Oh yes that gal standing next to that red, white and blue motor home is my wife
and flower child of the 60's.

Lots of memories in that old rig and lots of fun just putting it together.

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