Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Out with the old, in with the new...


It's now time to say Good bye. You were nice, even if your heater didn't work very well...For the most part you didn't let us down. We visited lots of places with you.....








...We visited the Alps....













...the Alps again, though this time you had to pull a trailer over them loaded with a couple of dirt bikes for Christoph and me...














Then you took us down to Croatia.
On the way back you started to complain and threw off a bit of your serpentine belt. But you got us home and continued without any trouble for a few months.









Then it got cold, Heide and the kids were freezing. The only one of the heater fans was working and it was 6 degrees fahrenheit. That is no longer acceptable, sorry. I was given the assignment, find a replacement. It's not easy, over here there aren't many vans with sliding doors. And on top of that, it shouldn't cost too much.
After looking around for a couple of weeks, I ended up at the used car dealer in our village. He had what we needed and the price was right!



























We've now switched from Lancia to Peugeot and hopefully the new one will be around as faithfully and longer than you were. He is a bit younger this time....

We decided to go away from a diesel and get something that I can get converted to LPG. That will happen in the next month or two.

I advertised you in the internet and you weren't even in there for more than 5 minutes! Now your adventure will continue on to Africa or wherever it is that you get exported to!

1 comment:

  1. Douglas I can't say I am sad about the departure. Perhaps I need to visit very soon to check out the new ride.

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