Same here.  In late April & early May of this year, I spent two weeks on the
road from So-Cal to Tennessee for Circle Yer Wagens and even from
several "volks" attending the event, they were rather surprised I drove "Ole
Putt" to the event with a small trailer in tow ("You drove all the way from
Californy?").  Put almost 6000 miles on the rig this trip.

Even more so, 7 years ago I took 8 months off to see the country back east &
the midwest with the same rig set-up with similar reactions from both VW and
Non-VW "volks".  I guess 15 to 20 year old VWs with California license
plates just aren't seen very often east of the Rockies.  Since I run channel
17 or 19 on the CB when I'm on the road, I got inquiring chatter from a lot
of long-haul truckers too.  Over 22,000 miles on that trip with hardly a
problem to speak of too.  Preventive maintenance is the secret.
--
Jim Thompson
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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On 6/26/06, bueses <bueses@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I am still amazed at the reactions of non vw folks when I tell them that
> my
> wife drove our 84 Westy 2500 miles across country recently, by herself, &
> had no problems-you would have thought she had gone to Mars w/o incident.
>
> Pax,
>
> Tom