Our story continues in the late fall of 2006 in upstate New York. Gary, now 68, puts the Volkswagen Bug camper he inherited from the estate of his lady, Janet, who was killed in a grinding scrapbooking accident, up for sale. "It's all I have left," he says, "If you don't count my collection of jaundice photos and this duffel bag full of obscure tools I won in an impromptu Chinese checkers tournament." The asking price is $20,000. Just enough, Gary says, to pay his debts and fulfill a lifelong dream of opening his very own root cellar. Godspeed, Gary. [Thanks to Matt for the tip.]
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DISCUSSION
If he sells it and gets his own root cellar, I can see it in Manlius, NY, on the former site of Arley's Hotel, near the Swan Pond...but that car/camper would be hard-pressed to get out of the village, what with the steep hills on Routes 173, 5 and 92, as well as its general deterioration (they don't call the big city near by the "Salt City" for nothing!)