Here in Missoula, Montana I see vanagons, eurovans, and older busses every day. In fact I usually see about 5 a day just on my regular errands. My neighbor's eurovan is parked in front of their house, there is a vanagon and a bus on my son's route to school, there is a syncro for sale parked in front of the church a block away, there was one in front of the hostel but it moved, there are usually 1 or 2 in the Good Food Store parking lot...  Now that I am looking, they are everywhere!

Barbara 89 syncro

 just thought I would add my two cents to your observations.  We did
quite a bit of traveling this summer and I paid a lot of attention to how
many Vanagons we saw on our trips.

On our first trip to the East coast, we did not see one Vanagon (or
Eurovan, for that matter) during our 1 week and 1,000+ miles (rental
car)or so back there.  We covered Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Maryland,
New York, etc., etc.  It really surprised me not to see even one back
there.  Here, in California, we see them all over the place every day.

When we traveled up to British Columbia (and a cruise in Alaska), via
California, Oregon and Washington, we saw the most Vanagons (and Eurovans
- especially in Washington) in Washington and Alaska. I think we saw even
more up there than we see in California.  I was really surprised by how
many Eurovans there were in Washington - they seem to sell more than any
state that we've noticed.

Bob & Sharon Mendonca
88 Vanagon GL
85 Vanagon GL