Or.....a Traveling bURNINGvAN !!! You could tour the continent. First stop is here in Seattle. I can see the flyers now- 
"bURNINGvAN   Setting the world on fire one city at a time!" People pictures would still be optional.
Kevin
'86 Westy  Sweet Leilani
 

> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:47:01 -0800
> From: mwmiller6@ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: Pictures from bURNINGvAN 2012
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> We're thinking of moving it to NF next year though. We're tired of the
> good weather and easy drive.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Joy Hecht wrote:
> 
> > If I'm on that side of the continent, sure, I'll take people
> > pictures! I
> > live around 5000 miles away, tho, it's a bit far.
> >
> > I knew it was in California, and the same place every year, was just
> > wondering where.
> >
> >
> > Joy
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> People pictures are Mike's department. Vehicle rollcall pics are
> >> BenT's.
> >> Stephan's pics are balanced between people and vehicles as is
> >> Cris's kite
> >> pics. Glen & Jen are new to the scene and excited about seeing other
> >> Vanagons.
> >>
> >> So there is your explanation. We've holding this event in the same
> >> spot
> >> for 9 years. It's always at Ocean Beach in San Francisco,
> >> California, USA.
> >> Details posted in The Samba and various forums. Now that you know
> >> where it
> >> is, should we expect you next year to take people pics?
> >>
> >>
> >> BenT
> >> sent from my electronic leash
> >>
> >> On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Aerial shots are rather cool! Where is this event held, anyway?
> >>>
> >>> But this has to be a guy thing - 90-odd photos, and not more than
> >>> five
> >>> people? I really do think if women were taking these photos they
> >>> would
> >> be
> >>> pictures of the people, not the vehicles! Now I remember why we
> >>> created
> >>> that VW face page on Larry Chase's website - but we probably
> >>> looked much
> >>> younger then! ;-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Joy
> >>