Word: camper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also another, more comfort-conscious breed of camper who disdains any real communing with nature. These refugees from city and suburb seek not spartan solitude but gregarious luxury-at reasonable prices...
...calorie-conscious cooking with helping him to keep slim. His old lumberjack's breakfast menu of eggs, flapjacks, beans, meat and a slab of cold dried fat back is only a memory. For spiritual replenishment, he periodically packs his wife and their three children into the family motor camper and escapes to the Canadian wilderness...
...they get that way? A chronic case of rootlessness helps. Rascoe heroines begin life in bad boarding schools ("A Line of Order"), grow up to borrow haunted apartments from the friends of friends ("Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows"), and climax their fate rolling down the road in a camper ("Short Rounds with the Champ...
...Dayton?" calls a driver from the cab of his camper. His buddy pauses before slamming shut the tailgate of his trailer. "Nope," he drawls. "I'm gonna take a breather. See you in Memphis...
...resolves to "become like a little child again, a barbarian," a primitive, psychically joining with her father and all the Jungian forefathers. Step by step she regresses into a private wilderness, beyond the last camper's garbage, the last hunter's slaughtered bird, the last echo of the defoliating chain...