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Show Volkswagen Caravan Visits Moab By Dick Wilson Anyone traveling east along the Dewey Road last Sunday morning would have met with a long line of Bugs on their way to invade Moab. The procession was a Volks-wagon Volks-wagon Train, a type' of good will public relations sponsored sponsor-ed by Volkswagon dealers. Sunday's wagon train to Moab was sponsored by Jesse Boyce Motors of Grand Junction as a free gesture to their patrons. pat-rons. The bug mob, 148 strong, arrived ar-rived in Moab early . Sunday where they met with guide Lin Ottinger of the Moab Rock Shop. The 148 persons were traveling in a single file line of 45 Volkswagons.' The Discover America , effort ef-fort by Volkswagon dealers is not a new project but it's the first time the Moab area has seen it, according to Ottinger. Ot-tinger. Provided free to $ach driver was a first aid kit for the glove compartment and a compact road map atlas cf the United States. Jesse Boyce was the official offic-ial host for the Canyonlands trip and he was present for the tour of the Island in the Sky, as were most of his employees. em-ployees. Canyonlands National Park was the main objective of the long VW procession, with frequent fre-quent stops for pictures being common. Green River Overlook Over-look and Grandview Point were both primary stopping places on the Island in the Sky. The visitors especially enjoyed views of the intertwining inter-twining canyons and intermit tent rainstorms that played tag with each other in the distance. It was while descending the Shafer Trail ' that all 45 vehicles ve-hicles posed for their picture. The seven switchbacks dropping drop-ping to the White Rim frequently fre-quently are impassible to ordinary or-dinary automobiles that's why the bugs had no trouble! But the road is in good shape for automobiles presently, even ev-en if recommended for skillful skill-ful drivers. On the White Rim the caravan cara-van stopped at. Musselman Arch. This was the turn-around point for the group and they traveled the remainder of their Canyonlands tour up the Potash road to Moab. The sweep car trailed the group. It was driven by one of Jesse Boyce's mechanics, who reported that no mishaps or complications occurred on the tour. In spite of the low temperatures, temper-atures, cloudy skies and gusty gus-ty winds, the event was well attended even to the last feature, fea-ture, which was a steak dinner din-ner with all the trimmings at Lions River Park. This was the second week in a row that members of the Lions Club were hard at work accommodating accommo-dating hungry caravan guests. 141 guests stayed for the dinner, din-ner, quite surprising a figure in view of the low temperatures tempera-tures of the passing storm system. Most of the Grand Junction people had not toured Canyonlands Canyon-lands National Park before last Saturday's event, and they certainly enjoyed the different dif-ferent world they witnessed. |