Good day Bob
Every Vanagon owner is a bit crazy, that why it fun to have one. When I
bought mine it was mostly for my girlfriend, I was looking for a F*rd  or a
C*evy� I fell in love with the damn machine, period.

I beat all the post above with a 10500 miles (not KM) trip last summer
across USA & Canada; similar to the one you are talking about, NO MAJOR
problem. I have to say that I was a bit lucky (see my engine page & horror
story), but luck is on your side when you own a Westy, everybody is you're
friend�

Take the chance, if you're stuck somewhere, it's gone be a good way to have
fun with you're family.

One of my friend just left Canada for a 3-month tour of the US & Canada in
an 86 GL, he bought the van 2 weeks before leaving, we fix a few thing and
he was gone. He is now in New Olean (he was born there) and he had only 1
small problem in heavy trafic with the front radiator thermo switch, this
was fix in an hour. (I help him trough a web page)
http://pages.infinit.net/engine/bob.htm
And everything is fine now, is heading out for Texas Saturday.

Good luck to you my friend

Be the ICEmen from the North�

My main page:
http://pages.infinit.net/eurokit/

My big 10500 trip of last year:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/

My Westy engine page; (take a look, it could help for checking the
condition of some mechanical parts)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/engine1.htm