Part of our path over the recent holiday weekend took us from Houston to New Orleans. On the east side of Houston is an enormous bridge that spans the Houston Ship Channel. On the north side of the channel is the Great Big Parking Lot for all of the new cars that are off-loaded from ships in the port. Big VW area - I remember seeing rows of Vanagons a couple of years back, and a huge expanse of Golfs and Jettas. But I only saw three (3) Eurovans on Sunday... We were cruising at 65mph in the Vanagon and passed a very nice looking ('76?) Bus going 55mph. For trips of a 100 miles, who needs the extra strain on the air-cooled engine to save 17 minutes? Oddest sight: a (blue-bird) bus-based motor home towing secondary transportation behind - a two-place helicopter! (The kind with the BIG plexiglas bubble.) Vanagon ran great over the 600+ miles, but sure used a lot of oil (will break 100k miles this week). No blue cloud... bcnu - Grungy jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu '61 dddPanel '68,'69 Bugs '90 Vanagon '67 Bus .opinions are just that.obviously.
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