The price of fuel definitely affects all those traveling and RV's are
getting hit especially hard. At $3.00/gallon the average motor home costs
$.30/mile just for fuel. Flying, hotel and rental car is suddenly a deal.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Don Hanson
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Fewer on the roads..NVC..

This year in the desert southwest there are noticably fewer motorhomes,
trailers and vans out traveling..There are more European travelers, some
in
those big Dakar type trucks...Unimog, etc..Must be very economical for
them
to come over and use one Euro to buy three US dollars worth of
whatever...I
wonder how many dollars a coke or an espresso costs in Europe right now?
  Gotta love our gov. and certainly I do believe em when they say "the US
economy is in fine shape"...Uh huh.
  Don Hanson