yup. close enough to Friday again. :)

so here's WHERE you all are ...
-AUS         4 AZ           1 IL          2  NH          3  RI          5
-AUS.ACT     2 AZ.S.PHOE    2 IL.BLM      1  NH.MAN      2  SC          1
-AUS.NSW     3 AZ.S.TUCS    3 IL.CHI      5  NH.PLY      1  TN          3
-CAN         5 CA           2 IN          2  NJ          1  TN.W.MEM    1
-CAN.AB      1 CA.BA       38 IN.BLM      1  NJ.C        1  TX          2
-CAN.AB.CAL  1 CA.C         1 IN.IND      2  NJ.N        5  TX.AMA      1
-CAN.AB.EDM  3 CA.N         2 KS.KC       4  NJ.S        2  TX.AUS      5
-CAN.BC.INT  1 CA.N.SAC     6 KY          2  NM          2  TX.DAL      8
-CAN.BC.VAN  5 CA.NE        1 LA          1  NV          2  TX.FW       1
-CAN.BC.VIC  5 CA.S.LA     10 MA.E        1  NY          1  TX.HOU      7
-CAN.MN.WIN  1 CA.S.SD     10 MA.E.BOS   18  NY.E        1  TX.SAN      1
-CAN.NB      1 CA.S.SLO     1 MA.E.NBED   2  NY.E.ALB    1  UT          6
-CAN.NS.HAL  3 CA.WC        1 MA.W        2  NY.E.LI     6  UT.SLC      1
-CAN.NS.SJ   1 CO.N.BOU     3 MD          3  NY.N        1  VA          2
-CAN.ON      1 CO.N.DEN     5 MD.C.BAL   10  NY.NYC      4  VA.C        2
-CAN.ON.OTT  2 CO.N.FTC     2 MD.SC       1  NY.W        1  VA.E        1
-CAN.ON.TOR 11 CO.W         1 ME          2  NY.W.BUFF   1  VA.N        5
-CAN.PQ.MON  3 CT           5 MI          4  NY.W.ROCH   1  VA.N.ALEX   6
-CAN.PQ.QUE  1 DC           1 MN          1  NY.W.SYRA   2  VA.N.FRED   2
-CHILE       1 DE           2 MN.DL       1  OH.C.COL    5  VA.S        1
-DEN         2 FL.C         1 MN.MPLS     1  OH.N.CLE    5  VA.W        1
-ESP         1 FL.N         7 MN.MSP      8  OH.S.DAY    1  VT          3
-GER         5 FL.NW        1 MN.N        2  OH.SW.CIN   1  WA          2
-IRE         2 FL.S         1 MO.CG       2  OK          2  WA.C        1
-IT          1 FL.SW        1 MO.KC       1  OR.NE       1  WA.E        1
-JP          1 GA           1 MO.STL      5  OR.NW.CORV  1  WA.NW.SEA  13
-SWE         3 GA.C         2 MT          4  OR.NW.PORT  7  WA.SW.VAN   1
-UK.ENG      2 GA.E         1 NC          1  OR.W.EUG    1  WI          1
-UK.ENG.BIR  1 GA.N.ATL     5 NC.C.CHAR   1  PA          1  WI.S.MAD    3
-UK.ENG.LON  4 GA.SE        1 NC.C.CHILL  1  PA.C        1  WI.S.MIL    3
AK.ANC       3 GA.W         1 NC.C.GB-WS  4  PA.E        1  WV          1
AK.FB        2 HI           1 NC.C.RA-DU  6  PA.E.ALL    2  WY          2
AK.JUN       1 IA.CR        1 NC.E        1  PA.E.HAR    3
AL           8 IA.DM        1 NC.W.ASHE   1  PA.E.PHI   10
AR           2 ID           1 NE          3  PA.W.PIT    1
       Unknown     212      Total       708

and here's WHAT you are all driving/protecting/restoring/etc ...
50 Microbus   0, 59 Microbus   2, 68 Bus   4, 80 Vanagon  20, 91 Eurovan   1
51 Microbus   0, 60 Microbus   2, 69 Bus   3, 81 Vanagon  21, 92 Eurovan   0
52 Microbus   0, 61 Microbus   1, 70 Bus   2, 82 Vanagon  38, 93 Eurovan  27
53 Microbus   0, 62 Microbus   1, 71 Bus  17, 83 Vanagon  26, 94 Eurovan   1
54 Microbus   0, 63 Microbus   2, 72 Bus   9, 84 Vanagon  66, 95 Eurovan  10
55 Microbus   1, 64 Microbus   3, 73 Bus  10, 85 Vanagon  67, 96 Eurovan   1
56 Microbus   0, 65 Microbus   5, 74 Bus   9, 86 Vanagon  62, 97 Eurovan   7
57 Microbus   0, 66 Microbus   5, 75 Bus   4, 87 Vanagon  86,
58 Microbus   1, 67 Microbus  11, 76 Bus  10, 88 Vanagon  20,
                                  77 Bus  10, 89 Vanagon  25,
                                  78 Bus  13, 90 Vanagon  30,
                                  79 Bus   4, 91 Vanagon  34,

 Microbus   34 - Camper   8, Panel    3, Pickup   5, Kombi    4, Deluxe   7
 Bus        96 - Camper  55, Panel    1, Pickup   4, Kombi    3
 Vanagon   495 - Camper 249, Kombi    1, Pickup  10, Diesel  20, Syncro  72
 Eurovan    47 - Camper  19, Panel    1, Pickup   1, Diesel   3, Syncro   1
 Total     672

Vanagon Mailing List   708 people,   672 vehicles
    34 Microbus,    96 Bus,   495 Vanagon,    47 Eurovan
    20 Wanabus,    171 Lurking Sniveling Unknowns :)

For details of where/when the next camping event in your area is,
Watch your list and/or contact the following folks:
----------------------------------------------------------
Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon)
   wetwesties@zuni.likeminds.com
Caifornia: Central and San Francisco Bay Area:
   http://www.vanagon.com/journeys/ccc/
California: North, Central, SF Bay Area:
   busgirl@netcom.net
Intermoutain-West: Utah, Wyoming, Idaho
   kokopelli@sprintmail.com
   sjones@tetondata.com
Northeast/New England/New Hampshire:
   jonr@empire.net
Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland:
   dfleming@moosebird.com
Southern Wisconsin:
   rodavies@facstaff.wisc.edu
North Carolina, Triangle Area:
   rapalmer@unity.nscu.edu
North Georgia/NE Alabama/East Tennessee/W North Carolina:
   deasterw@st6000.sct.edu
Oklahoma, Kansas:
   jjrodgers1@compuserve.com

CANADA:
  Ontario:
    http://www.sentex.net/~yvan/volks!

If you are interested in joining a club dedicated to the
preservation, restoration, and enjoyment of 1968 and newer buses,
and receiving their bi-monthly newsletter, Check out LiMBO
<limbo@bcn.net>  <URL: http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/>

If you are interested in joining a club dedicated to the
preservation, restoration, and enjoyment of 1967 and older buses,
and receiving their bi-monthly newsletter, Check out NEATO
<neato@rt66.com> <URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~deasterw/neato.html>

There is another bus list for those folks interested in
only air-cooled buses. to subscribe, send email to
Listserv@bigkitty.azaccess.com   with text of:
subscribe type2 John Doe
(where John Doe is your name). to post to the list itself
email to Type2@bigkitty.azaccess.com

Warm the cockles of your heart with a VW Transporter coffee mug
... high quality drawings of the generations of Buses. contact
   Richard Palmer <rapalmer@eos.ncsu.edu> for more info.

FAQ and Archives available from:
 http://halfdan.med.umn.edu:8853/misc/archives/vanagon.html
 ftp site:    lenti.med.umn.edu:/pub/vanagon

WWW/HTTP info available from:
 http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
 http://www.automatrix.com/~skip/volkswagen
 http://www.supernet.net/~jclark/vw/vwpage.html
 http://www.alldata.com/
 http://tigger.as.arizona.edu/~dlytle
 http://query5.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/pursuit/vanagon
 http://www.vanagon.com/
 http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/3392/
 http://www.kiz.com
 http://www.village.org/vw/parts/
 http://www2.ari.net/dworkin/vw/
 http://www.vintagebus.com   .../barndoor/html
 http://www.infocom.com/~paulr/vw
 http://www.pipeline.com/~tforhan/swhome.htm
 http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rapalmer/www/
 http://www2.zone.ca/~jblp/type2    map of bus locations
 http://www.type2.com/Sermons    Bob Hoover Sermons
 http://ebus.simplenet.com/Volkswagen
 http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8249/
 http://www.armory.com/~y21cvb/charlie/charlie.html