Hello I just came back for germany...stayed in a little village called Illshwang, about 50 Km from Nurenberg. I was amazed at the amount vans I saw..not being an expert on model names, I saw a little bit of everything..most amazing was the VW campers that had 5 foot high extended roofs, and the transporters?(like a pickup truck) that actually get used on a daily basis for work and delivery..also saw a bunch of the mercedes campers similar to the VW extended hard topped ones. With most cars being small, it is very common for families to have small trailers and I saw many ones with Westfalia on the back of them. As I was driving on the Autobahn at 200 kilometers an hour(and still being almost driven off the road by cars from behind) I was having fantasies of driving my 89 VW Westfalia at 100 Kilometers of course through the small towns and stopping at night at the ParkingPlatz on the side of the highway every few kilometers and going throughout europe. I live in Rhode Island which has only a handful of VW vans and it made me even prouder to be an owner of one and part of this wonderful group of owners represented with this group. jeff |
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