Welcome to Westy.Life! This blog is about our 2003 Volkswagen Eurovan Weekender. It was just delivered yesterday from Pop Top Heaven in California, and it’s been a long time coming. We’ve talked and talked about getting either a Eurovan Weekender or Camper for probably 10 years now.

The Weekender is a Eurovan made in Germany by VW that has had additional features installed by the Westfalia company. Westfalia has been making VW campers for years, and there are legions of old Microbus, Vanagan and Eurovan campers still out there. Because so many feature the Westfalia branding on them they have come to be known as “Westys.”

In the dim past I had a 1974 VW Camper, and I loved everything about it – except for the lack of power. It was downright embarrassing driving it over mountain passes here in the western USA. It was painfully underpowered.

Now that we’re entering into our retirement years I’ve been looking for the perfect road trip vehicle. I wanted a Eurovan really badly, but they haven’t been made since 2003. When you do you find one it will have lots of miles on it.  A 2003 is 12 years old now (in 2015), and with average driving it might have 120,000 to 140,000 miles on the odometer.

So I’ve been looking and looking nationwide for the right Eurovan for us to take on our retirement road trips. I finally found “the one” three months ago at Pop Top Heaven. This company specializes in restoring IMG_1335Eurovan Campers and Weekenders, and the one we bought had only 64,000 miles on it. It had just arrived there when we bought it, and has been undergoing restoration ever since – about three months!

It was a great day when the shipper finally delivered our Weekender! The photo to the right was taken by Pop Top Heaven during the restoration process.

So now with our Weekender we’re ready to start our road trip adventures!