> > A VW bus? Heheh. I sure hope I never have to drive one of those.
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> Don't knock it -- they're fun to drive. I had a '65 with a 50 hp engine. It was 1.5 liters, I think. Very underpowered and it wouldn't go straight unless you kept correcting all the time. It had a four speed shift. It looked top-heavy, but wasn't. In fact it handled very well and had great traction. I drove it places only a Jeep should go. Cross winds drove it nuts. I learned to draft up behind a truck and slingshot around it. It was the only way I could get by. The difference between a head wind and a tail wind could be 10 miles per gallon. I blew the engine up on Roosevelt Mountain in Tennessee and again at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado. Yeah, it was fun, but I don't want another one.
> Howard

Ours was a Westfalia camper. It had a little setup inside with a tiny stove and a little refrigerator and a sink. The top cranked up in the front, and you could sling a hammock across the two front seats. The backseat folded down into a bed, and above it was another bunk. The thing drove about the same way that Howard describes his, but it was pretty cool. We went camping in it two or three times while we owned it. We always went to the state park in Versailles, Indiana. We kids usually got to sleep in the camper, while mom and dad had a private tent. Versailles State Park has some nice hiking trails, and it's a good place to take a bicycle too. We did. We had a misadventure there once. One year, the last day we were camping, my mother slipped at the pool and broke her ankle very badly. The closest hospital was about 40 minutes away, and we ended up spending the night there, waiting. My mom was in a wheelchair or on crutches for several months. They had to put screws in her bones to fix it. What a way to end a vacation. On the bright side, she was still in a wheelchair when we went to Disneyworld later that year, and we got onto all the rides faster because they allow you to bypass the main line if you have someone in a wheelchair.

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