Archive: Merry Christmas 2025 and a Volkswagen memory
Posted By RichC on December 6, 2025
On Thanksgiving weekend, our family walked around the shops in Liberty Center before going to the movie Zootopia 2 as a family; it was very nice. Besides the granddaughters enjoying the candy store, I particularly enjoyed a shop with an old Volkswagen Microbus. Of course I couldn’t help but reminisce about my old friend Charlie Matthews and his old air cooled VWs. One of his Volkswagens 
was a bus similar to the one on display in the shop.
As I was admiring the bus, I couldn’t help but think about Kamikaze (our nickname for him) and his beloved air-cooled Volkswagens (or my CinciTDI friend Tim’s for that matter, although a bit newer). These were both Volkswagen Type 2 “Transporter’s in the same spirit as the one in the store. I had a feeling the owner “Running on Blooms” might have noticed my conversation with the kids and came over to talk. I eventually pulled up a photo of Charlie and his bus back in the early 1980s when he visited us at our first house in Aurora, Ohio. The shop owner then opened up the doors so the girls could sit on the step for a photo(very nice).
On a side not, while Charlie stayed with us, I helped him dig clay and pack it in his van for his raw earth pottery; we still have treasured pieces that he made for us. Definitely great memories.
Back to the purpose of this post: Archiving our annual Christmas letter, but now just a Christmas card … and to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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