> 2) I guess this is Vanagon content - since my Mom can't get in the van. I
> never thought, when I was getting the A.B. up and running, that my Mom
> wouldn't be able to get in. She is 82, uses a cane, and her quad muscles are
> very weak. I got a step stool and tried to get her in the back of the van,
> but she couldn't make it with that one step and without something to hold
> onto. I'm thinking of something akin to those steps with rails that roll up
> to an airplane - only on a small scale. Also, I'm temporarily impecunious,
> so it has to be cheap.
>
> Thanks,
> Maggie
> '85 Subaru-Westy "Anne Bonney"

Can you place a cushion on the floor at the sliding door or not, have her
turn her back to the door & sit down on the cushion, then turn her legs so
that she rotates into the van.  Then help her up onto the seat?

Tom-we'll all be there someday?