Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:26:38 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Any other OK/TX/KS listers around?
Comments: To: Jon Joyce <okartguy@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Jon Joyce wrote:

> I was just curious to see if there are any of you from this neck of the
> woods... Most of the list seems to be concentrated on the coasts.

If you check the national census you will find that most of the population of
the entire contiguous USA is located along the  coastal regions. Center of the
US is fairly sparsely populated.

> I see Vanagons fairly often around OKC; I'd love to have some "local
> support."
> Also, I see quite a few busses etc. at the Walnut Valley Festival in
> Winfield, KS every year, and I hope to camp out the van for the first time
> this year. Anybody else a Winfield regular? Take it easy-

I live in Birmingham, AL and theough the Vans are here, I go weeks without
seeing one. Birmingham has over a million people here but it is not that
popular of a vehicle except with a handful of automotive masochists. And of
those, only one is a list member that I know of..... and thats me.

Out of the whole state of Alabama there are only a couple of other V'gon
owners/list members. Joel Walker in Tuscaloosa, and one other in Montgomery
who recently put an inline 4banger in his rig.

East of here in Atlanta, there are quite a few more.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver