Jeeze - I think it sounds like Yoshi should go into business and be running
a mobile hotel - (The Eastphalia Motor Hotel?) based upon the ready market
acceptance of 3 adult males sleeping in a tiny minivan.

He could fit maybe 6 in Westy - a major competitive advantage.

I'm gonna buy a big US motorhome, and ship it to Japan where I could rent
out each bunk at like $50 USD a night.  (and maybe $25 per day) Even if
nobody let me park, I could easily just keep driving it in circles on the
Freeway.

Marshall Ruskin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Palmer" <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal article about Japanese car camping

> Yoshi must be grinning at the value of his van going up and up!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Stevens" <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal article about Japanese car camping
>
>
> > "On a recent weekend, Kozuma and two fellow midlevel corporate managers
> > grilled beef with small gas burners on folding tables in the back of his
> > minivan. With outside temperatures well below freezing, they folded up
the
> > tables and rolled out their sleeping bags."
> >
> > Sure makes my Westy sound comfortable and accommodating.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > > Here is a similar (if not the same) article from the Contra Costa
> > > Times:
> > >
> > > http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/8365876.htm
> > >
> > > Dan Wohlers
> > > 1985 Westy
> >
> >