Starting Photo

Here is the GTI with the starting stickers.

This Car Climbed Mt. Washington: we actually DID take the VW up and down Mt. Washington. It was part of this weekend we were up in the Great North Woods of NH and we were having a fantastic time. It was one of those weekends you are not quite ready to go back home so we decided to take a leisurely ride back home and headed South down a non-highway road. Again, the ride was beautiful and the closer we got to civilization the more we kept joking that we just wanted to turn the car around. All of the sudden out of nowhere this big sign in front of us was pointing and screaming (if signs could do that) and it read that if we went down this road on the left we could take our car to the top of Mt. Washington. We looked at each other and the decision was not talked about, it was made already! We rode down this road towards the base of Mt. Washington joking the entire time about whether or not the car would actually make it to the top and back! A park ranger in a hut gave us a bunch of directions, don't ride your brake or clutch, keep a good distance from the car in front of you, don't ever stop, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then he handed us this audio tape and sent us on our way. "Follow this road", he said and pointed off somewhere..... We were off - the clutch and brakes smelled really bad but she made it, the GTI actually made it up AND back! The audio tape gave us the history of the Mountain and kept talking about these cars actually racing to the top of the mountain in the early 1900's so in the back of our minds we KNEW the GTI would make it if these cars did time and time again. It was a very interesting ride, the views were specular and the audio tape was extremely educational and most importantly we got this cool sticker :)

CAZ: from the time I was a child my family has called me Caz. There is no reason for it, it doesn't mean anything and it doesn't even come close to being a shortened version of my name, but Caz it was, Caz it is and Caz it will stay! My sister-in-law lives in Western NY and there is actually a town called Cazenovia out that way. The town sells stickers with "CAZ" on them. Although the meaning of Cazenovia's Caz and my Caz are totally different the sentiment is really fantastic and I LOVE having it on the car!!!! I think my sister-in-law is the coolest for seeing this, thinking of me and sending it along - Thank You R :)

ERBA: ERBA stands to Essex River Basin Adventures and it is the place where we purchased some used sea kayaks, the gear and took lessons. Although the GTI couldn't handle the racks on the roof or probably the weight of the kayaks we didn't want our other car to have ALL the kayak glory, so we gave the GTI a sticker to make her just as important in our kayaking adventures :)

Dancing Bears: proud to be married to a dead head :)