Pacific Waterland is arguably one of the biggest Volkswagen shows in Oregon that goes on during the year. It’s not exclusively Volkswagen only some other euro cars show up mostly BMW and Audi. I somewhat stumbled into going to Pacific Waterland. One day I was just browsing through the Volkswagen shows that where going to go on in Oregon and saw Pacific Waterland. Me thinking wow that would be a pretty good first show to go to saw that as a perfect opportunity to get introduced to the Volkswagen culture. I look up the price and it's only 25 bucks that seemed like a reasonable price for a once a year event. I register for the car show so that I could show out in my 2002 Volkswagen Jetta GLX VR6 Wagon. Then I convince my dad that it's a good…show more content… This was probably my 4th time on the highway. Naturally, I had google maps going on my phone to direct me where to go. The thing is there is one issue with google maps it can be really vague sometimes. While driving on I-84 google maps says keep left but there is two ways to go left, I take the wrong one and end up going on the Clackamas mall exit. Luckily we didn't take the wrong directions somewhere close to Woodburn that would've been really bad because I only know the Gresham area. The ride there from there on goes great other than the numerous drops in the highway which rocked the car around. I run a bouncy suspension setup so the car was not happy when it hit I-205 and there was a bunch of different patches of road. We are within 5 minutes of the destination and I start to see some Volkswagens a R32 and couple of Rabbit caddies filling up at a gas station. I’m getting really excited because of this, I hadn't seen any R32s or caddies in person. My dad doesnt get why Im getting excited, so I try to explain to him how rare these cars are in the U.S. My explanation sorta works but not to the point which I hoped for. My dad views cars as point A to point B transportation nothing
