My experience was  Encinitas CA had lots of Vanagons. I bought my
Westy there. I thought it would be easy to spot. I was wrong. On a
short street, I passed 6 houses with Vanagons. Mine wasn't there (the
previous owner had taken it to the car wash and was just heading back
when I arrived.)

On Apr 3, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Don Hundt wrote:

> You're in it! Vanagons are everywhere in Portland. I lived there
> from 98-03,
> had a brown/tan 82 diesel van. within 5 blocks, all on the same
> street, were
> two others exactly the same color, plus 3 others of different colors/
> years.
> All at different addresses. It seemed like I couldn't go anywhere
> without
> seeing at least one.
>
> I'm spending the next year in the Washington, D.C. area, been here two
> months and still haven't seen a Vanagon.
> Don
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Snook" <matt@SNOOKSBAND.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:52 PM
> Subject: Where is Mecca?
>
>
>> I spent the day not looking for Westies.  I parked my mobile office
>> ('84
>> Westy) and did some writing at the Mt. Tabor park, relaxed by playing
>> dobro
>> at a Gypsy Jazz jam session on Division Street in the evening, and
>> parked
>> overnight at a friend's house, all in SE Portland.  I've never seen
>> so
>> many
>> Westies and other vanagons!  (My friend -another musician- even
>> drives a
>> stripped out diesel Vanagon.)  So I got to wondering, what is the
>> Westy
>> Mecca?  Where is the highest density of vanagons to be found?  I
>> know it's
>> a
>> rhetorical question.  Just wondering where folks seem to see the most
>> Westies and Vanagons.  :)
>>
>> Matt
>>
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