Ripley Vanagon Syncro

The Big Bend of Texas

We have been to the Big Bend of Texas four times. Once during June in 2013, again in November of the same year, again the following November, and then in late 2016. Going in June was kind of a mistake. We knew it would be hot but what we didn’t know is that it would be ...

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First Time in Yosemite

We drove through a tunnel, yellow light coloring the hewn rock that made up the walls. At the end, an overexposed scene to which my eyes had yet to adjust. It’s an image I have seen a hundred times before in photos and videos, each time wondering how this could possibly be so striking a ...

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Our Lady of the Starship

Earlier this year, we met Mitch and Amy at Syncro Solstice in Moab Utah. They drove down from Seattle, WA to Moab, UT in their single stage paint, 14” wheel, bone stock 1.9L Vanagon Westfalia. Like a lot of these VW vans, their’s sounded like it was one small mole hill away from shutting down and ...

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