D and I have been checking out VW Vanagon's and Westfalia's on the 'net.

There's a distinct possibility that we will be the proud owners of such a vehicle in the not too distant future.

We have a dream you see.  One that sort of supercedes the homestead dream, one that's going to be much easier to achieve.

We want to buy a vintage vanagon, one with a sink and stove and fridge.  One that has a canvas pop-up on the top so you can stand up in the back of it.  One that has the bench seat that flattens out to a bed.

We want to buy this vanagon, restore it, and then, once the AF has had it's fill of us and the kids are all in college or otherwise out of the house, we want to go.  Go anywhere.  Go everywhere.  In our vanagon.

D and Dharma, on the road.  Going to places we've always dreamed about going to....travelling Rt 66, going to Yellowstone, to the Pacific and Atlantic beaches and anywhere in between.  Staying in any one place for as long as we care to, avoiding interstates unless we absolutely have to use them.....seeing America, the real, rural America of folk stories and songs. 

D and Dharma, being Dharma Bums, neo-hippies, wanderers.....

....just being, together.

This is our dream.  Working all winter, traveling all summer.

I can't think of anything else I'd rather do.