Hello listers,
	

        I'm back on list after a small absence of about 2 decades.  Despite being blind I purchased my first VW bug when I was 18 and in college.  I fixed it up with help from family and friends.  About two years later I purchased a 74 bus and toured the country with a friend, enjoying a memorable summer break.   That bus had over 100,000 thousand miles on it when I levt and we had no mechanical problems other then operator error on the entire trip coast to coast!  Yes, I have more then my share of good luck!

        Thanks to this list I purchased my best westfailia on the recommendation of a list member.  He spotted the 84  in his town in Georgia.  I purchased it over the phone and through the mail.  My girlfriend flew down with me and we drove it back to Central NY.  I just about had that camper in mint condition when I needed to sell it to pay for my move to Vermont and our new home there.  

 Thanks to directions and help from this list I did many repairs over the years myself.  I left only the big jobs to the mechanics.  I now would like to own another Westfalia.  I enjoy caring for the beast as much as camping in it.  My hope is to find one in good condition that I can use while improving it. 

        I've learned over the years that because I need other people to drive I need to stick with a Vanagon rather then a Bus, though my heart is still captured by the air cooled busses.   I also want the camper style that started at 1974 and later.  
A few years before needing to sell my camper I went to a amazing gathering of VW campers that met in July in North Adams Mass.  We had a great weekend there with amazing VW people and I remember some of the campers were forsale.  Does this event still happen?  And can someone tell me where I can learn more about it?  I suspect it may be in different locations each year.

Also, do listers still post here about camper's they see forsale that are note worthy?  I have a lot of catching up to do!

Eric Caron 
Pownal VT 
former owner of 
1974 bus, 1974 conversion bus, 1976 Westfalia, and 1984 vanagon Wolfsburg Westfalia.