Bonnie and I just returned from Churchill, Manitoba (about half way up the west shore of Hudson's Bay), where we were, like a bunch of other folks, observing polar bears.  The other folks we were with were not interested much in one observation I made, that of a VW van, vintage uncertain to me.  It was parked, evidently for quite a while, beside a house, no driveway, just on the yard.  Blue and white, no camper top.  I asked a couple of folks at hotels and restaurants about it, and they just shrugged and said that it had been in Churchill for a while, and they didn't know what if any use it was put to.  So, that put my stereotype of small towns (Churchill has only about 400 year-round residents, and no roads to anywhere except within town, except for some local abandoned military roads that are used to access the tundra for polar bear observation and by researchers) to rest.  Folks don't know (or don't reveal) every one else's business (at least so far as that van is concerned).

I did ask, and was told, why folks have cars in such a small town, with nothing more than a mile from everywhere else.  It is 50 below in winter.  They just don't want to walk everywhere in that weather.
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David McNeely