VW van, seen on the street, No. 7

Taken somewhere in downtown Portland, on Friday, November 14, 2008, at 1:13 p.m.

Update on Sunday's VW van, seen on the street, No. 5--the mystery location has been solved by my buddy Sheryl at work. I took the photo in the public parking lot at the D River in Lincoln City, Oregon. I should've paid attention to the windblown look of the trees in the distance. Three cheers for Sheryl!

VW van, seen on the street, No. 6

Another mystery Portland location for this photo, taken at 5:11 p.m. on September 19, 2009, a Saturday. Some sort of collision mars the driver's door of this vintage vehicle.

VW van, seen on the street, No. 5

Here's another great VW van! I took this photo on April 10, 2009, at 2:47 p.m. That's my afternoon break time, so I may have been out on a short walk. The problem is that I don't recognize any of the buildings. A mystery location which shall remain so.

Madge, is this like your VW van? Hope so.

VW van, seen on a parking lot, No. 4

I thought this chartreuse-colored van would look pretty cool after yesterday's orange one, especially since I actually took the photo the very next day, back on July 24, 2008! Serendipity!

This VW van is parked in a parking lot near work--I took the photo while out and about on my lunch hour--sometimes I didn't go across the river to the park bench, I just ate at my desk and went out for a walk.

The building in the background with the blue trim around the windows is Bright Auto Upholstery. The red brick building is a parking garage. I've never noticed that tower being that much taller than the garage itself--it's a stairwell. Makes me wonder if at one point there were plans to add another story to the garage. Bet there's no money for that now.

VW van, seen on the street, No. 3

Downtown Portland. Lots going on to watch and/or photograph. I took this photo on July 23, 2008, at 11:50 a.m. while on my lunch hour. If memory serves, the bright orange VW van circled the block several times before I got up from my bench and went to catch the bus back to work. The last couple of years the times for bus arrivals at work and departures back to work have not lent themselves to much of a relaxed lunch time in the park. I hope 2013 proves to be much better for me.

VW Van, seen on the street, No. 2

How about the heart on the door? And the band-aid on the back driver-side wheel well?

I took this photo on May 5, 2007, in Northwest Portland's Alphabet District. The van's parked around the corner from the front door of the Nob Hill Bar & Grill, 937 NW 23rd Avenue. The October, 2006, night that my sons settled Mama and me into our apartment on NW Everett, we three walked from there to the Nob Hill to have a burger and fries. Whew. I was one tired puppy that night, so tired I can't even remember how the food tasted. I believe I ate every single bit of it. And I managed to walk the entire half mile there and half mile back. Felt like more mileage to me.