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Thanks for your best wishes - I'll pass them on. I doubt it would put her off coming again, as she very much enjoyed the trip (err - I mean holiday). Those little chunks of kerb seem a bit of a menace - I kicked a few unintentionally - but I guess you learn the lesson falling over them when you're tiny and still bounce! We don't usually have them here, it would often be a full kerb with planted border or a pavement (sidewalk). Quoted time for recovery seems to be 4 to 6 weeks. It was set and wired yesterday evening, and the latest is that it's swollen and painful. I guess that's normal. Hoping to be able to collect her later today. Things could have been a lot worse - later that day we rounded a corner to come face-to-face with a pick-up driver on our side of the road overtaking a large semi between blind bends on Route 1 and had to brake hard to miss him. If he'd waited another 10 seconds he would have had a half-mile long straight to do it in safety. We were surprised at the number of roads with no protection from sheer drops - eg Crater Lake and Route 1 - it would look ugly I guess, and there would need to be a lot of it. If you want a nerve-jangling experience, sit with Keith driving round the crater rim with one hand and half an eye on the road while taking photos out of the sun-roof with his other hand and 1.5 eyes! I only moved my hand involuntarily towards the wheel once. I seem to recall that Brian and Anne had a similar episode at Hershey when Brian took both hands off the wheel to show Anne how straight Keith's Notch was tracking. It's all good fun. ;-) I'd love to get a few more of the UK Type 3ers out there. I bet somewhere there are funds to help with transport costs on the basis of developing international links through special interest groups. I did make some enquiries a few years ago with the British Council and English-speaking Union - but got nowhere. Maybe some of you have contacts we could follow up for the next time. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Dave and Anne reporting in > On 7 Aug 2006 at 1:00, Dave Hall wrote: > > > While watching the Western Pacific steam locomotive setting off from Fort Bragg > > on our last full day of the holiday, Anne stepped back a bit and fell over one > > of the parking lot kerbs, breaking her radius (lower-arm bone) near the wrist > > quite badly. > > Dave, best wishes to Ann for a speedy recovery. I hope this does not > completely spoil her view of the US and future Type 3 Invasions. > > About how long will she be recovering? > > -- > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~