First: Spend some time each day exersizing on the parallel bars doing dips.
(Remember high-school gym?) Then you can step up with one foot on the
battery box area, left hand on the roof opening next to the latch, the right
on the bed, and 'zoom!' push the body up and onto the bed. (Do enough
camping and the parallel bars are never needed again) Side benefit: you now
have great looking muscular arms, no flabbiness here!

Karl

----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: upper bunk entry

> Face front of van.  Right foot on the ledge behind the passenger seat
(over
> the battery).  Left foot on the sink/stove console.  Right foot in
passenger
> head restraint.  Push butt on to bed.  It's worked for fifteen years.
>
> Sometimes, for variety, we'll pivot on the stove and go in head first.
> Boy-o-boy, does camping with the Wolz's get exciting, or what?
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: upper bunk entry
>
>
> > At 09:25 AM 5/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Trying to think of a compact ladder that will hoist the wife or 8 year
> old
> > daughter into the upper bunk
> >
> > We carry a little aluminum 3-step step ladder.  Works great.
> >
> > Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > It ain't what you don't know that hurts you,
> > it's what you do know that's wrong.
> >