We had nine buses show up, plus one wannabus. Three Syncro Westies, two Vanagon Westies, on Vangon GL, plus three breadload Westies. No splitties :-(. I must comment on the beautiful original breadload colors: a lime yellow/green, THE orange, and a deep sky blue. All in a row, they made the Vanagons look quite boring. We were camping at Massanutten Mountain, in the Shenandoah Valley, north west VA. Weather was warm enough for plenty of swimming, nice cool evenings for sleeping. Seventeen adults with fourteen kids, nine and under! Kids rode bikes and played soccer in a meadow central to the camping sites. One family decided to stay an extra day, and they are up there right now, lucky folks. Saturday noonish we took two syncros onto the Peters Run Trail, designated for 4WD vehhcles, but mostly used by motorcyles and the like. Before we went a ranger looked at the vans and told us we would not be able to finish the south end of the trail: to rough and rutted, and we would never make it over all the rocks. Of course we did, after stopping for a swim at a wonderful spring fed mountain pond along the way. Photos to follow. Saturday night we had a potluck, and Sunday morning did a caravan down the "hidden" valley between the two ridges of the mountain: beautiful, unspoiled farmland. We finished up with a group photo op. All in all, a low key, relaxing weekend. Tom F.
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