Vintage Surfari Wagons

Hello Bill & Diane,

We are the Belgian Family who came last year during the Christmas vacation for a surf trip in Southern California. We had 3 pages in the Belgian surf magazine with nice pics of your VW camper. I hope everyting goes well with your family and VW business. We would like to come again for a surf trip, because last year we had a great time and a great service from you. My daughter Camille asks if there is a green VW bus available. Perhaps there will be a second Belgian family who wants to come and hire a VW camper in the Christmas holiday, I see them this evening.

Greetings, the Kindt's

Hi Bill & Diane,

We arrived this morning at 8 am in Brussels. We had a wonderful holiday time in with Honu Li'u. When I sorted the laundry I found a pillow cover from the VW bus. I will send it to you with the Swell Magazine where the story of our holiday last year was published "Californication". Patrick will send you next week some pictures of our last bus trip with the Honu Li'u so you can put them on your blog if you want.

Hope to see you again, in California (where we lost our heart) or in Belgium :-)

Gr, Bianca & family

In March 2007 we (4 Dutch friends) decided to go on a vacation in the US. After looking on the Internet we found the website of Vintage Surfari Wagons. We fell totally in love with the VW vans and decided to book a tour.

Saturday the 14th of July, 2007 we arrived at LAX. We were picked up by Bill who showed us the fantastic VW van. We were totally impressed by the good condition of the van and how it looked. It was amazing!

It was our first time to the States so we experienced a total different driving experience! The streets and highways are incredibly large in contrast with the streets in Europe.

We start traveling south. The first week was basically a trip from beach to beach. Great beaches, nice waves (perfect conditions for rookies) and the weather was great during the whole period we were in CA!

We visited San Diego with its Sea World (great!). Our journey continued and we headed back north. We visited a small wine country, some Indian reservations and arrived in LA. Of course we visited the hot spots like Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Hollywood, Malibu, etc.

Because we wanted to visit the Grand Canyon, we parked our van temporarily at Bill’s and rented another car. We drove west and had a pit stop in Vegas! (Surreal, but a must-see.) The Grand Canyon was totally stunning. We had seen some movies about it, but in real life it was more impressive than we could imagine!

We drove back to LA, changed cars and drove our way up the coast with our final north destination being San Francisco. We took Route 101, which was an amazing experience, especially when you love nature and photography you can’t do a trip in CA without driving the 101. The sea of colours is unforgettable, in particular the sunrises and sunsets. We arrived in SF, and visited for example the Golden Gate bridge, Pier #54, China Town, and Bloomingdales.

During our final days we visited Yosemite Park. Again, an amazing example of natural and scenic beauty. The last 2 days we spent on the beach for we heard the weather in Holland was not so well, so we took advantage of our last opportunity to enjoy the weather!

For pictures tell a lot more about things than words, we have added some of them.

Bill and Diane, what an adventure we had with Eddie! Thanks Eddie, you’re the best!

Thanks Bill & Diane for making this a vacation the best one (till now).

Thanks Bill for all the cooperation and thinking along with us. Thanks for letting us using the boards. We really appreciate all the help!

Thank God for guarding us during the trip and bringing us safely home! Praise, for He is Good!

Cheers, 

Your friends from Holland: Marijn (Mike), Jacob, Rene, & JP