California Dreaming... or is a Nightmare

Days 31 to Day 33 - To San Diego and back to Mesa, AZ

Interesting days, in some ways, ones we would rather forget!

We traveled to San Diego to pick up a ’74 VW Westfalia that I had purchased on Ebay. It turned out that some people can stretch the truth... a long way. Anyway, to make a long story short, we picked up the VW and started back east. The plan was to meet Lee at the Grand Canyon’s south rim but the VW developed some braking problems and they needed to be repaired.

After some searches on the internet we discovered that there are several VW repair shops in or near Phoenix. One particularly well rated one is located in Mesa (a suburb of Phoenix). We called ahead to make an appointment at Doug’s Buggs and drove to Mesa, trying to stay out of as much traffic as possible. This proved to be an impossibility one we reached the Phoenix area. By the time we made it to Doug’s, Linda was close to melt down.

As I write this, the VW is in the shop. We are waiting for a call. If it is ready to go this afternoon we will bypass the Grand Canyon and head for Moab, Utah. It is a 2 day trip from here. We have been in contact with Lee and he is heading back to Calgary on his MC. Linda & I will pick up the truck in Price and hopefully get back to Fernie next Monday afternoon.

We are looking forward to getting back to Fernie.