Bernie, that sounds like a guy named Wendell from the SF Bay area. We
ran into him several times in Baja in his white 87 Westy Syncro, camped
on the beach.

As for your wife, perhaps you could make the Westy into something she
would be more comfortable in. A hightop conversion perhaps, and getting
rid of the closet so the lower bed is more spacious. In case you haven't
heard the Adventurewagen tops are being produced again near Toronto and
you can get one installed at a couple different places on the West Coast.

Mark

bernie wrote:
> Better to die campig then in hospital.....................
>
>
> I am with you there!
> We were campimg on the Baja near the water several years ago.
> A guy comes up to us and says you just missed a guy close to 80 here
> yesterday camping in VW like yours.
> The guy pulled up hauled out chair and opens a tin of beans for lunch and
> eats it out of can.
> Then he hauls his kayak down from a top his bus and heads out in the windy
> white capped sea.
> The two guys were watching this and the one says
> "Man isn't that dangerous on your own in those conditions"?
> Then they looked at each other and both had the same thought!
> What a way to go doing exactly what you love to do on your own terms.
> Is there a better way to go!
>
> Bernie
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