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>if so, what does he do? i never hear of anything he does nowadays? Not much, I suspect. Reminds \€ÖÜe story about W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera fame) when asked by a society lady if dear Bach was still composing. No, Gilbert responded, he's now decomposing. Carl Franz, the (now latter-day) hippie who wrote the traveler's guide to Mexico that has been published in almost as many editions as Muir's Idiot book, reported meeting Muir in Mexico one time. And, sure enough, Franz says, Muir actually had that parrot on his shoulder! I have always felt an affinity with Muir because of his stories about being blown off the road by wind in New Mexico. In days of yore when growing up in N.M., I myself frequently became intimately familiar with bar ditches along highways when my T2 or beetle was gusted over about 10 feet or so! The man spoke true! John Muir published the first edition of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive in 1969...think about it, 30 years ago! Trivia question: John Muir was born in 1918, but in what year did he die? Phil (without Muir, I'd be riding a bicycle) Dillard dillard@suu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/