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 Post subject: wvo delica headin' for mexico!
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:49 pm 
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my wife and i are leaving tomorrow on the first ferry from powell river to van isle and then on to mexico!
we have some parts of a centrifuge for wvo filtration, the rest is gonna connect with us in san francisco on friday.
we've got 120 liters on board plus 80 liters in the tank. i stashed some oil in victoria, im meeting some folks who have wvo for me too. that should get us to SF.
loose itinerary: tuesday night victoria
wednesday night paradise point state park near portland
thursday night some where on the coast of northern cali
friday camping near san francisco
saturday for a few days in SF
maybe joshua tree around the 25th
new years eve at the sea of cortez!

i got a laptop w/ wifi, so hopefully ill keep y'all up to date



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vaya con dios!

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Nice job and I'm envious :M

Make sure you rotate those MTR's. 8-)

Looking forward to the trip posts.

Good luck & safe trip !

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Look forward to the updates of your trip, have a great time! Nice RV, well set up there!

Aren't you going to miss that white stuff on the ground?

Have a great time you two :-D

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Excellent,

Seems like you have been preparing for this for quite a while so enjoy!
I don't see the surfboards on the Deli but pretty much everything you could need for sure!
Remember the family that get a cool 15 year old tubo-deisel import and then filters wvo and then loads their van up and goes to Mexico during a B.C winter together....stays together!

Have Fun!
Thanks 4 all the posts!
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Right on! Have a great trip - Will be watching for your dispatches of your adventure! And as I will be motoring down to Coombs with wookie in his Silver Bullet first crack tomorrow morning we will keep an eye out for the Space Antelope aheadn' south! Happy Day!

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Good luck After Oil. Looks like you're well prepared with a great rig(even if the tire gate does say Toyota) :roll:

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greetings from snowy kelso washington!
nice to meet konadog and *edit* wookie on the way!

my rig handled great today on snowy hwys.i stopped near belfair wa to fillup4free compliments of tom berrnink who i found on the fillup4free site. i averaged about 90kmh but went as slow as 60kmh on I5 following the big rigs.
too cold to camp (according to the wife) so we got a motel for the night. tomorrow after a stop at REI inportland for a roll up table and good folding chairs were gonna head for the coast!

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Awesome - yeah, it was fun runnin' into you just as we were leaving ccautos. Hopefully next time we'll have more time to hangout. Anyway, happy motoring - damn, you sure picked a good time to flee south! Pretty gnarly here now. I even heard the Malahat was closed down :shock: Looking forward to your posts from afar :-D :M

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hi
weve been driving pretty slow, 80-100kmh... even less sometimes. there was snow and ice on the I5
we left the I5 at salem and headed to the balmy oregon coast and camped at the dunes. it was snowing and hailing on us there.

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we camped in a camprground on hwy 101 in the redwood and check out the big tree before heading back to the coast.

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ill bet a low roof p25 with 235's would fit...

averaging about 25 kmh we wound our way down to and along the coast, hwy 1. it was great to finally escape the winter storms! in mendocino county, we stopped for lunch in a tiny town called point arena . kinda reminded me of lasquiti island. everyone was friendly and they all new each other. they were also very stoked about the delica! we stopped to check out the view and the new climate and just relax and enjoy the scenery.
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by dinner time we made it SF!!
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we drove so far 1865km and burned 290 liters of WVO. turns out the 15l jugs actually hold 20l! we filled up with 20l from a guy in belfair wa, and we still have 60 liters left


one really gets a good idea for shifting points, for using the auto transmission for braking and downhills, and for overdrive on and off when doing such a major drive. i love this vehicle. i love my delica so much.

we're gonna chill here for a few days, assemble the centrifuge, collect some wvo,look around town a bit, and carry on before the holiday the call december 25

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Good for you guys!

I've done that trip twice, all the way to the southern tip of Baja and it's a great road trip.

On you first pictures it made me wonder if you had any room left to move or sleep inside your van! Good pictures!
Sounds like your veggie is working great, good for you!

Take care, makes lots of friends and even better experiences!
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wow what a trip good for you ,
one day i could do that trip also.
cheers;
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Thanks for keeping us posted, keep the pictures coming please! Looking forward to em'.

Enjoy.

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after a few days checkin out SF and collecting wvo from some folks we moved on. i stopped near Monterey to test out the raw power centrifuge and it seems to work great! i havent pan tested to make sure though.
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were in mojave tonight. tomorrow we'll check out some of route 66, a ghost town, and camp @ joshua tree NP

im looking forward to getting to mexico soon! its freezing and snowy out even here in the desert. its been fun watching the altimeter go up and down. we're at 1500 meters tonight.

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Was thinking about you two while watching snow in Malibu on CNN.

Think I recognize a hose there, glad to hear the set up and operating went well. Try not to complain about the southern cold on the forum, some people feel you’re rubbing it in when we do that. Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.

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Was thinking about you two while watching snow in Malibu on CNN.

Think I recognize a hose there, glad to hear the set up and operating went well. Try not to complain about the southern cold on the forum, some people feel you’re rubbing it in when we do that. Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.

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happy channuka!
yeah, i brought along a bunch of the stuff you left for dillon. that hose is to
stiff to use really. and i gotta switch to 3/4 i think

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