It's the same way here in Ventura and up the coast into San Luis Obispo with
a lot of EVCs and Rialtas tossed in for good measure.
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
Full Timing Since March 1999
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http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I drove out to West Seattle Friday to meet a friend and take the passenger
> ferry to the Seattle waterfront for lunch.  Across the street was parked
> about a '90 Syncro Westy.  Half a block up, where I parked, was a very
> clean. again about a '90, Carat with kayak on top.  While I was waiting for
> my friend an '82 Westy pulled into the parking lot and I could see it was
> originally a Canadian import by the arrangement of the utinlity inlets.  I
> talked to the very young couple that got out of it.  It was originally a
> diesel but now converted with a Golf engine.  They were delighted to find
> out that there was an active VW camping community here in the NW.  They'd
> had their rig for about two months and loved it.  And later, as I was
> leaving, just down the road a half mile was another Vanagon, parked with
> bicycles on the back.  Four Vanagons in half a mile.  It would have been
> five but I was driving the T-Bird instead of Starwagen.  BTW, for those of
> you in other parts of the US, this is not that unusual around  several
> neighborhoods in Seattle.  All the sizes, all the ages.  I guess the
> Vanagon
> is blessed with the Vulcan salutation, "Live long and prosper".