Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:44:41 -0700
Reply-To: RP <personalbsd@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: RP <personalbsd@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: WSJ article about Japanese car camping
In-Reply-To: <006d01c41de8$a7629350$6500a8c0@karensdell>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Good idea but, it's too expensive to drive around in
Japan.
Last time I was there I spent $200 just in freeway
tolls. This for just a four hour drive.
Rick
Sacto
--- Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> Jeeze - I think it sounds like Yoshi should go into
> business and be running
> a mobile hotel - (The Eastphalia Motor Hotel?) based
> upon the ready market
> acceptance of 3 adult males sleeping in a tiny
> minivan.
>
> He could fit maybe 6 in Westy - a major competitive
> advantage.
>
> I'm gonna buy a big US motorhome, and ship it to
> Japan where I could rent
> out each bunk at like $50 USD a night. (and maybe
> $25 per day) Even if
> nobody let me park, I could easily just keep driving
> it in circles on the
> Freeway.
>
> Marshall Ruskin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Palmer" <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal article about
> Japanese car camping
>
>
> > Yoshi must be grinning at the value of his van
> going up and up!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Stevens" <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal article about
> Japanese car camping
> >
> >
> > > "On a recent weekend, Kozuma and two fellow
> midlevel corporate managers
> > > grilled beef with small gas burners on folding
> tables in the back of his
> > > minivan. With outside temperatures well below
> freezing, they folded up
> the
> > > tables and rolled out their sleeping bags."
> > >
> > > Sure makes my Westy sound comfortable and
> accommodating.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > > Here is a similar (if not the same) article
> from the Contra Costa
> > > > Times:
> > > >
> > > >
>
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/8365876.htm
> > > >
> > > > Dan Wohlers
> > > > 1985 Westy
> > >
> > >
=====
Rick
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway
http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
| 
