I hear you Don !
If only modesty and 'low impact' lifestyle was more popular !
When is that precious juice humans squander going start running low anyway ?
You couldn't write a more bizarre story or movie plot  about a planet's main
species being largely dysfunctional. 

Btw, open respectful discussion about ANYTHING is supported on 
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/turbovans/

scott 

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
dhanson@gorge.net
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:22 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Sheesh! Wildflowers? No real vanagon content

  Last Sunday's LA and San Deigo newspapers must have run stories on the
"Desert Wildflower Bloom".
And people in those cities must be really hard-up to occupy themselves, or
something.
 This weekend, our little desert town is SWAMPED with Lookie-Lous, driving
around in their fancy
city SUVs and motorhomes and standing out(breifly) in droves in the desert
looking at wildflowers..
  Now, don't get me wrong, they are nice(the flowers)...but are they worth
an overnight trip or a
few hundred bucks worth of fuel and hours in bumper to bumper freeway
traffic to come see?  Most
flower-lookers find another crowd of stopped (usually double parked or
blocking the road) vehicles
and they all bail out(usually without checking if there is traffic, because
they are in
the "Wilderness"), spend a few minutes walking around in the sand, take some
pics with cell phones
and then they jump back in and head for fast food and home again, I guess.
  I did see a couple of "new" Vanagons, maybe some listers from SD or LA.
But So Cal tourists
prefer much more fancy rides...Right here in the SD Branch Library parking
lot I can see two
Cayennes and a really fancy Rolls with what looks to be factory alloy
wheels...The Rolls is
HUGE...And there goes a white Westie with two bikes on the back...I'd take
the Westie, myself,
though you could probably make the Rolls into a pretty decent camper with
some work...
  Don Hanson

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