The re-birth of Volkswagen's Westfalia camper may not be news, but news of the technical upgrades just crossed my path this morning.
"...a Montreal, PQ-based design firm has announced that they have won a special jury prize at the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf in Germany for their solar-diesel hybrid Westfalia camper concept. So far the camper seems to exist only as a series of computer generated images and a video. It's modeled after the old type 2 Westfalia campers with the pop-up top."
This is a far cry from the 1973 version that my familiy enjoyed so much (in spite of the orange and gray primer paint job). Stay with me for a second... equipped with a satellite uplink, a small portable generator with appropriate power scrubbing options, a built-in computer and wireless hardware... and my office (or classroom) might be a mountain meadow somewhere with a panoramic view and the evening's meal just a fly cast distance away. It just seems like the perfect prescription for the technically-addicted-but-outdoors-loving geek. Yes. I am there (if only in my dreams) *sigh*.