About eight years ago my wife and I were traveling the Natchez Trace in our
westy. We kept seeing big groups of model Ts traveling south near us. At
one stop we are able to walk over and examine some of them. They were
outfitted from new as campers. You have never seen such elegance... beveled
glass, oak joinery, nickel plated woodburning cookstoves, velvet
bedcushions and samovars and the like. I did not know anything like that
existed. There must have been thirty of them in all.

They weren't all roughing it.

Jim

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Noticed he's got a light bulb hanging in campsite, powered from his "van";
> and that fold-up table is pretty cool too, as is the Dr.'s camp chair.
> Everybody looks pretty happy and content.  As it is even today.  Great
> photo, thanks!
>
> Rich
> San Diego
>
> --- On Tue, 4/23/13, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
>
> From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
> Subject: early Vanagon type camping picture
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:36 AM
>
> Well, it's not a Vanagon (there weren't any then), but it suggests the
> Vanagon camping life and shows that this way of camping has been about for
> a while:
>
> http://www.shorpy.com/node/15126#comments
>
> David McNeely
>