Yeah, I've never seen a full arm wave either, except from close friends
and family. Though there was an exuberant family in a vanagon who
cheered and waved to see my red vanagon cruising the main drag through
town about six months ago. I count it among my most elevated vanagon
experiences, wish all vanagon drivers were that enthusiastic. Most van
owners in town don't react unless they are in the same color van as the
one I'm driving, then I get a you-stole-my-car look of shock for a
second or two. But where I live is nothing like out in the country.

Jim

On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Aaron Pearson wrote:

> rural vermont, too (where i grew up).  two fingers only, though.  a
> full
> arm wave would only get you a funny look.
>
> aaron
> '87 syncro gl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Jim Felder
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:52 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: boulder vanagon wave
>
>>  I'd be waving at a couple people per day.
>> Not that that would be "bad" just it gets old.
>>
>>
> Then don't come to the rural south. Every (male) driver will wave at
> you, no matter what you are driving or what they are driving, and they
> expect a wave back. I'm talking about hundreds or thousands of wave a
> day--just two fingers lifted off the wheels, at least.
>
> Doesn't happen on busy highways or in towns, but out on the two-lanes
> it's universal. They would wave at you as they died in a firey crash
> while going over a cliff if that's what it took to get their wave in.
>
> Jim
>