From: jeep (Jeep@mountain.net)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 07:16:11 PST
John, Please add me to list.
Archie Hollingsworth
Mile marker 1 I-64 (WV KY Border)
Rt 2 Box 432
Prichard, WV 25555
(H) 304-648-8336 Anytime...
(M) 304-634-1061
have tools,plenty of parking space,"Friends" and M35A2 W/W
At 11:13 PM 3/7/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello List, Sarge here,
>It looks like I have had an attack of the infamous "Missing Messages", I
>just received an e-mail asking if a particular person was on the help list.
>He was not, because his message to me got lost in an e-mail black hole
>somewhere.
>If you have e-mailed me with an offer to volunteer and I sent you the draft
>list, you are going to be on it. If you have e-mailed me and received no
>reply (with an .xls attachment), then please resend your message, I did not
>get it.
>The list will be updated at least once a week with new additions (I hope!).
>Anybody, at any time, who wishes to be removed from the list, will be
>removed within 24 hours, no questions asked.
>Story time.
>I recently picked up an M35 in Wisconsin and drove it back to Texas with
>only basic hand tools. Of course it broke, often. I was completely on my own
>and it was a horror story. Blown hoses, overheating, stuck to the axles at
>midnight, minus 15 degrees trying to sleep in the cab on the side of the
>interstate. Nobody would stop at midnight and help, I'm 6'5", 275 and have
>been described as 'scary'. My guardian angel was a Minnesota State Trooper
>who literally rescued me from freezing. Of course, nobody has to point out
>the obvious, I was guilty of stupidity, for not planning for such common MV
>problems.
>I hope that this list will be used as an insurance policy against such
>horror stories. You cannot plan for every eventuality nor can you carry more
>than a few spare parts. If you have this list and a few quarters in your
>pocket, you should have a warm fuzzy feeling if you break down within
>helping distance of anyone on it. Remember, you do not have to be on the
>list in order to use it. There are a thousand valid reasons for not being on
>the list, and no one will ever question your reason. But when you travel,
>carry it with you.
>Boy, I sure do go on!
>-John aka Sarge
>
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