Not a Vanagon, but a Ford pickup, model circa '80s, lived near me for a decade (still does).  Though it was driven, during that time it grew a cottonwood sapling in the bed, roots somewhere down amongst or below a layer of beer cans several deep that took up a good bit of the cargo space.   The little tree died this past summer during the drought.  It is still there, though, in skeletal form.  I don't know the neighbor who drives this truck, but he is a friendly sort, always having a cheerful greeting when I am out and about.

mcneely

---- Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Of all the places in the USA for a Vanagon owner to live, surely the Pacific
> Northwest grows on you most...
>
> http://www.wordless.me/2011/01/blog-post_19.html
>
>
> Angus Gordon
> Bainbridge Island WA

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David McNeely