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...With Ford, you would have gotten the mid-1970s again. They weren't so bad. I was young, not much more than 40, when good old Jerry took over. No one knew which was Iran and which was Iraq. I took a 2,000-mile vacation in a camper that got eight miles to the gallon...
...Dakota. He was one of the elite of American travelers, who moved not necessarily to see places but to feel things. He was free of the marital problems, heavy loads, and speed ridden sorties of American truckers. He was above the bourgeois cares and compromises of the American family camper that joins its summer type in endless caravans crossing America--those who travel but don't go anywhere...
...canyon that served as a wind tunnel, and he, driving a pickup-trailer rig, was doing about 70 when the trailer was caught in a cross breeze and began to fishtail. After the trailer had totaled the side of one car coming at it, the whole rig rammed a camper, flipped and ejected the two riders. One had a few scratches. The other was on the ground...
...near the East German border, 200 gypsies live in old refugee housing that lacks hot water and indoor toilets and is so overrun by rats from a nearby garbage dump that children are not allowed out at night. In summer, when gypsies take to the highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming that the gypsies would pester vacationers by peddling their wares, have tacked up signs reading GYPSIES FORBIDDEN. Police periodically descend on camping gypsies with guard dogs...
...When the Congress finally adjourned, I carried on a family tradition. Gathering up 15 children, including my Kara, Teddy Jr. and Patrick, as well as Ethel's Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory, Eunice's Mark and Anthony, and some of their friends, I set out in a camper for a fun-filled tour across my home state. We rode the roller coaster, the Dodgem cars and the wave swinger ride at the Riverside amusement park in Agawam. We camped out in sleeping bags. We canoed on Pontoosuc Lake, where Rory and I got doused good when our canoe...