Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:32:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Westy Sightings Along The Way
Comments: To: Wetwesties <Wetwesties@yahoogroups.com>
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The two weeks before Labor Day and the week after I was traveling in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming.  3,600 plus
miles.  With the exception of inside Yellowstone National Park (and at the
WetWesties Reunion at Catherine Creek) I DIDN'T SEE A SINGLE VANAGON OR BUS,
camper or otherwise! But, in Yellowstone, we saw six Westfalias.  Waved at
one, pulled over with the top up having breakfast, just after entering the
park.  Stopped and talked to three others.  One was a couple from Texas
driving about an '85 with an engine from a Nissan Maxima.  Another from
Texas that had just spent a lot of time around Washington and Oregon and had
even stopped in Portland to have a Subie put in in the middle of the trip!
And the third, a couple from Missoula (last name Little) that I'd swapped a
bunch of email with some time back.  I was walking back to Starwagen after
getting some ice cream at Mammoth Hot Springs and they were peering into the
windows of my rig.  He turned and asked "Are you Loren?", he'd recognized my
license plates.  But with those exceptions, all inside the park, I didn't
see a single Vanagon or Bus on the road the entire time.