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