in the 50s the buses were imparimported to the united stas and by the time the sixty's came averaged counter culture movement started there were already hundredses of thousands of buses in the country. and they were cheap and you could load up your friends and drive across the country. there is no shortage of material when you are looking for film. >> one of the people i was fortunate in meeting and hooking up with was dave manning. who in a nutshell embodies the vw bus culture. he lives in his bus half of the year. yeah, i drive it every day. i will be in it as long as i can get away with it. >> so i did work kind of a normal job for ten months of year and have two months off in the summer. what i realized the two months i was traveling in the bus every year were like, the best part of my year. these campers have a connotation of the hippie lifestyle. they represent kind of the stripping away of what was the really square sort of stuff that everybody was being fed in the 50s. it was a reaction to that. and saying we are not going too wear the same suit and tie and get on the train a