The Green Emporer

In the 1976 my family moved to London for a year.  That summer before the London school year started, and the summer of 1977 after our sabbatical in London was over, my family and I lived in this VW Westfalia pop up top van.  It was a nomadic life moving from campground to campground.  We loved that VW, we named it the Green Emporer and would sing happy birthday to it every time the odometer reached a milestone number.  

Typical meal at a rest stop or campground.

We collected stickers at many of the towns we stopped in to stick to the back of the van.

   

My older brother was 10, I was 7 and my baby brother only a few months old.

  

Bath time.

Somewhere...

Back home with California plates.