The Money Pit

Well, the cute Westfalia has a name: "Rosalita."

She is the colour of dark red wine and is turning out to have somewhat of a fiery temper. Fiery in the sense that the heating won't turn off and the AC has stopped working. She also completely lost her head recently. Actually her cylinder heads. So they needed to be replaced and the last bill from the auto mechanic was around $4,200.

She has occasional outbursts. For no reason, she'll just send a little 2-syllable chirp, like a doorbell: "ding-ding". I think she's just saying hello, but Jack is considering having the alarm system worked over. I think that we should just let her chirp across the country, and maybe she'll stop if she feels like she's getting enough attention.

Rosalita is adorable, but she is also high maintenance.

Road Trip Music

I'm currently procrastinating in organizing things like pots & pans in favour of thinking about what music to bring. We will have an Ipod and I'd like to load it up before we leave. I've got a growing list, but I'd like your ideas about tunes that you think are essential for road tripping.
Suggestions?

The First Step: Purchasing a Westfalia

In the beginning there was an idea:

Let's do the Big Canadian Road-Trip

Unfortunately last year's trip around the Rocky Mountain west showed me that I'm not up to tenting every night. So we chose the next best thing, to buy a camperized Westfalia. It's a cute, wine-red, 1991 model and a bigger vehicle than I've ever owned before. In our neighbourhood I think there are about 6 Westfalia's in a 3-block radius, so it's a little weird to be keeping up with the Joneses.

We've learned that we must wave at other Westfalia drivers (the peace sign is reserved for the older air-cooled versions), and then we must name it. The Big Red Brick seems accurate, but a little impersonal. If you have suggestions for a name let us know.