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on the road again
many years ago i used to go on road trips with my friend rus on our motorcycles. together we drove all over the west coast and desert country. later i rode my bike from san francisco to chicago and back, stopping at all the highlights of the midwest like wall drug and the corn palace.
i’m setting my sights higher for future trips, and i’m now the proud owner of this camper van. it’s outfitted with everything i would need for extended trips or if my housesitting gigs run out i could just live in the parking lot like gonzo in the tv show trapper john, md.
she needs a name though, like any good vessel or ship. any suggestions? gonzo’s rv was called the “titanic”.
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22. August 2003 at 9:39 am :
Hildegarde. Definitely Hildegarde….
22. August 2003 at 4:50 pm :
Again, I’m sooooo jealous of you! My dream is to go cross-country in a big silver toaster (an Airstream trailer) and see everything worth seeing. Not the Grand Canyon or the Lincoln Memorial… no, I want to see the World’s Largest Ball of Twine and the House Made of Legos!
If you haven’t already, check out http://www.roadsideamerica.com! They have all the crazy sights to see!
As for the van… hmm… Hildegarde is hard to top! How about Tiny… or the Karmadrome? Maybe Hildegrade is better…
23. August 2003 at 6:15 pm :
Hey, now you can drive out to see me. Yay!
23. August 2003 at 6:20 pm :
some other suggestions:
- rhonda (she does look like a rhonda)
- yana (sanskrit for ‘vehicle’)
- owl (so i would be owl’s monkey… get it?)
i think i’ll see after her first trip camping if the name comes to me.
24. August 2003 at 1:47 am :
Davee,
I didn’t know you rode your bicycle to Chicago and back. I rode mine from SF to Pennsylvania. What you did is smarter, though. The Western half of the US is just so much more beautiful than the middle and the east coast that I wish I had ridden to the rockies and then turned back.
27. August 2003 at 10:48 pm :
somehow, i’m partial to: the love barge