Ah the Airstream. Apartment Therapy posted about the Airstream today and I thought, oh, I’m going to blog about this. Don’t we all love Airstreams? They hold such romantic ideas of cross country travel for many of us. And this one, designed by DWR is very hip and cool and just under $50k. After reading the comments I started to day dream a little more about the idea of taking long driving trips with Eric to Yosemite or San Diego.
Then, I remembered that you have to stay in an RV camp.
One summer, my whole family rode with my grandparents from Texas to Florida in an RV hopping from one KOA campground to the next. The child in me fondly remembers playing tetherball with a bunch of boys sporting crew cuts, eating baloney sandwiches every day for lunch and running around with my sister in the warm night air chasing lightning bugs with two girls from Mississippi who wore their bathing suits and nothing else all day (there wasn’t a pool). It was a white trash vacationing at its best. It was also the late 70s. Wasn’t everyone white trash then?
God, having an Airstream means living in RV camps for weeks on end! My parents were young, in their very early 30s, they didn’t know any better. But, I’m about to turn 40 (okay, about to turn 38, but I’ll be 40 soon…) and somehow the glorification of white trash living is no longer as appealing to me as it was a few years ago. The idea of drinking Coors and eating hotdogs more than once a week makes my indigestion kick in and forget about the mosquitoes, I just can't rally around the emotional commitment of constantly lathering myself with OFF. I think I’m more of a weekend camper. I’m afraid long distance touring with the Airstream is out of my cultural grasp. I’ll leave that for the young and the retired.
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