Jim's story reminds me of the last time we stayed in an RV park in our 1974
Orange deadhead Westfalia.  We stayed in a small, nice RV park owned by a
casino in Carson City.  We were attending an antique tractor show, and had
brought two vehicles, a pickup to tow the trailer with the tractors (John
Deere and Farmall) and the 74 Westy.  As it turns out, the RVs in the rest
of the park dwarfed both our pickup and Westy.  Not only that, but many of
the rigs were mega-expensive (my husband said a couple of them were in the
over $100,000 range - one was a Newell or Newhall or somethine like that -
huge).  Nevertheless, in the process of eating our breakfast and drinking
coffee outside the Westy in the mornings, the people from the expensive big
rigs all stopped and had to check out our bus and hung out to drink coffee
with us.  As Jim said, the vans tend to attract attention and start
conversations.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com>wrote:

> When I'm on my cross-country jaunts to Tennessee for Circle Yer Wagens in
> the spring, I usually stay at a Good Sam Park (discount's nice with their
> card).  Usually great toilet/washroom/show facilities with hookups and
> water
> if I want (usually just the electrics) and of course Wi-Fi.  When blasting
> to a destination each day, a nice shower hits the spot for me.  While most
> Class A rig operators and their wives tend to stick close to their rigs, I
> find that most of them venture out to chew the fat when I park in their
> area.  Darn right friendly, many often remark they use to drive/camp around
> in VW Westy in their former days, some of 'em actually miss it.  A Westy
> seems to attract attention almost wherever I camp in the these places.
>
>