This occured to me recently while on my bizarre long-mile/short-term
daily commute.  I can  easily see my spring-time jobsite ( a new house,
remember those?) from our porch..but it is across the Gorge, on the south
side of the Columbia River in Oregon and I live on the Northshore, in
Washington.  My place and the jobsite are both about half-way between the
nearest bridges across the Columbia, so getting over there by Vanagon is
about 45minutes.  Some 'idle time' to come up with hare-brained ideas
like....

  Has anyone ever tried putting a 'pop-out' or tip-out or whatever the RV
crowd calls those fancy slide out expanders that seem to be all the rage in
motorhomes and 5th wheel trailers now a days?  It'd be nice to maybe put
something in the rear of the van...we have about 5' across, inside, now.  A
pop-out or maybe two, one each side, that let you sleep cross wise inside
would be nice.  Westies have that rear  cabinet-box on the drivers side
anyhow.

  I know, probably silly.  But we do all kinds of really silly other stuff
to campmobiles....Like those with the extra big full length+  plastic tubs
on the tops of some American vans, the Adventure wagons with the very tall
tops, the Westie pop up roof, the Alaskan telescoping slide-in truck bed
campers, some of the 'expando' low-boy trail behind camping trailers...

  Just an idle idea, though I plan on taking a closer look at how the
mechanisims work in motorhomes and trailers next time I get the chance..

  Don Hanson