Robert Crawford wrote:

>         To change the subject a bit, Why don't Vanagon drivers wave?
> Whenever I take the '72 camper on a trip, air cooled people wave (and I wave
> too).  When I drive my '82 no one seems to wave, why?  I've tried waveing as
> I go down I-5, people look at me like im a kook or something (please, don't
> say the obvious).
That's a point - have to say, though that Westy drivers seem to be the 
exception to that rule. When I was up tooling around in the Catskills 
this month in the rusty but trusty '71 I got plenty of grins and waves 
from the many Waterboxer-Westies full of families bouncing around up 
there; when I pulled up in front of Bud's Cafe at the same time as a 
sleek (sleek? maybe I meant shiny) late-model Vanagon, I gave the owner 
a grin and a good morning. She looked back at me like I was something 
out of Deliverance.

Of course, I found out later that she was working on a movie up there - 
maybe she was one of these paranoid big-city types who think that small 
towns are full of cannibals and tax evaders. :)

- Anton

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