Hi,

I made my first trip to the left coast last week, and spent Tuesday
afternoon through Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, including San Jose, San
Francisco, Monterey, Santa Cruz, etc.   I decided to count Vanagons (not
busses or eurovans or new beetles, I can't count that high) just to see how
many I could find in 5 days in the Vanagon capital of the U.S. --  I got up
to 43!  The highest density was San Francisco.  In the 1/2 hour on Friday
night that we walked across the Golden Gate bridge, we saw 10 pass by!
That was incredible.  The best sighting was #41, a beautiful white Syncro
Westy in Monterey on Saturday.  It had the tag "TEEPEE,"  and a list
sticker too!

Michael
90 Carat
Durham NC