</center>Here's the deal:
A couple of weeks ago, I sent a "hello" email to Stu who hosts the Housetrucks NZ web site, which is a nice site chock full of lots of photos of New Zealand Housetrucks and Buses. Stu mentioned that he is looking for old issues of Wanderings Magazine, which I review elsewhere on this site. Although I had temporarily lost my reading glasses, I did some experimental scans of the old issues I had on hand to see if they could be converted to something that could be downloaded and viewed and/or printed to make the material available to all.
The result of my experiments so far is what I’m offering here, a scanned and updated Housetrucks Calendar for 2007:
CD2007Calendar.pdf
The original calendar was hand-drawn, laid up and printed by Candle Dust Carol, who was the editor and publisher of Candle Dust magazine, the predecessor magazine to Wanderings. I've put a lot of work into it. Each photograph had to be individually scanned and cropped out of the original page artwork, then pasted back into separate scans of the artwork borders. All of the scans of the dates of the month had to be cut-and-pasted into the correct order to update the calendar from 1994 to 2007. Many test printings to determine brightness and contrast were made. In short, it probably took me almost as long to put it together as it took Carol to do it from scratch.
Tips about printing
This was the first time I've explored putting together a "booklet", and the procedure for getting it off the screen and onto paper was a bit of a job. Each 8-1/2 x 11" page is divided into two sections, but only two of the eight pages are continuous, that is the two facing halves belong together. The rest are interleaved when the pages are printed, collated and assembled.
Here's what I've figured out so far:
1) If your printer prints both side of the paper automatically, then select that option in "Print Setup", and let it rip. If not, then go to step two.
2) Everyone else with inexpensive printers will need to do the following:
a) Select "Print only odd numbered pages" in the Print Setup dialog. Allow these pages to print.
b) Remove the pages from the printer's output tray and reverse the collation order (that is, the first page printed needs to be on top, and the last on the bottom if that's the reverse of how your printer spit them out)
c) Reinsert the pages - printed on one side - back into the printer's paper supply tray, being careful to put them in so that the blank side will be printed on next.
d) Select "Print only even numbered pages" in the Print Setup dialog. Allow these pages to print.
e) Remove the pages from the printer's output tray and reverse the collation order (that is, the first page printed needs to be on top, and the last on the bottom). Fold each page in half in the center, staple along the fold and you have a new calendar. The photo at the top of this page should be on the front cover when the booklet is closed.
3) I found that my ink jet printer made a more presentable product than my laser printer. Obviously, using photographic paper, or at least heavier stock paper will result in a better print job, and a more professional looking end result.
4) Stapling the pages is going to be tricky unless you have the right equipment. Alternatives are taking the pages to a commercial copy shop to be stapled (or even printed, I bet they have some sophisticated printers and paper!), or punching holes at the fold and tying the pages into a bundle with string, yarn, or small wire. If you're not fussy, you could also just use thumbtacks and pin it to the wall.
Try it out and let me know what you think, and relate any printing tips and tricks you come up with.
Now I need to see what scanning an actual magazine is going to entail…
. . .my bus conversion progress has been excruciatiingly slow, and my life is not all that exciting anymore. 
