There are some very nice vehicles out there but I know where I belong
at it's behind the wheel of my Westie.
I remember pulling into an out of the way coffee shop on the Baja
with my bus and there are two old cronies sitting over a coffee, with
a bus parked in front.
"What year is that" one of them calls out before I get to the coffee
shop.
"Pull up a chair after you get your coffee"!
Ninety minutes later  I was on the road again.
Or sitting around a campfire at Buses by the Bridge with someone
hauling out the guitar and singing "I've Been Everywher Man".
Or traveling along a deserted road in California at dusk and
approaching a bus 20 years older than mine with a guy with
hair to the the roof behind the wheel (I have a shaved head) and he gives me
the big
wave. We may be different generations, we may have different generation
buses but we are VW bus people and that has to count for something.
I won't mention the air cooled guy on the way to Buses by the
Bridge that wouldn't acknowledge that we shared the same planet
let alone VW's. I did not exist my bus did not exist and what is
a water cooled engine anyway?
I could swing buying something newer with more stuff but it wouldn't
be me.
The people that own these and the people that want to own
these seem a bit different then your average bear.
I like the difference!
But if need to ask yourself why your still driving one maybe it's time
to switch!

Bernie
Vancouver, BC