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Date:         Mon, 17 Apr 1995 16:59:54 -0500 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
Subject:      Rainy day Vanagon (f?) (fwd)

========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> From: Subject: Rainy day Vanagon (f?)

My wife and I took off for an overnight camping trip this last weekend in our '88 Vanagon. If anyone is looking for a nice place to camp on the California coast, try Sunset Beach State Park, near Watsonville. It's between Santa Cruz and Monterey, about one hour from the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area. Make reservations, tho.

We arrived just after noon on Saturday, and found a camp site in our favorite part of the park- a hollow shaded by pines. There was one other VW van there, a green, late-70's Westy with the pop top up.

As is our custom- we don't get enough sleep during the week- we started our stay with a nap in the back of the Vanagon. Sometime after we lay down, the unmistakeable sound of *rain* on the roof started. Oh well, at least we brought stuff to make sandwiches with for dinner. The rain stayed heavy all day and into the night, but we were content to rest, read, etc.

I got to thinking about the feeling of lying in a VW van with the rain coming down on the roof, and realized that's a very deep-rooted experience. As a small boy I rolled my sleeping bag out on the rubber mat in the back of our family's '68 VW Bus; rain often fell on our camping trips in the mountains of Washington state. And I always liked that sound. In college, I remember sleeping on the floor of my friend's '71 VW Bus, as thunderstorms poured around me in Yosemite. My wife and I enjoyed the sound of the rain coming down in British Columbia on our west coast road trip two years ago. And now, there we were last Saturday, listening to it again.

Just me and my wife, cozy in our faithful blue Vanagon, listening to the rain come down.

Happy Motoring,

Ian Abbott '69 VW Beetle '87 VW GTI '88 VW Vanagon '9? VW Concept 1


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