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...them stay alert and puts them in touch with scores of other drivers. A typical transmission we picked up in Illinois went like this: 'Breaker 10 [the emergency frequency], this is Buffalo Bill in an 18-wheeler rolling by Mile 78 on 1-90 North. Got an overturned camper here, lots of smokeys [police] in the area, and it's pretty congested.' It was a useful message, and it made the point that what may have started out as a fad or a tool against police has turned into a valuable driving aid. In Kansas the number...
...soft-drink cans. "Ain't people nasty the way they throw junk all over the roadside?" said Lee last week, taking a break along the shoulder of Highway 15 in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He shuffled a half mile back down the road to a camper where his wife Grace, 72, was watching over a dozen sacks and cardboard cartons brimful with cans. "It's just terrible to see this litter," she said. "But picking it up is fun. We get good exercise, and the fresh air revives...
...with machismo and the threat of death: the ultimate expression of the motorcycle culture and, according to one Evel Knievel aide, "a blue-collar Woodstock." Squadrons of bikers roared through Twin Falls, their girls and gear nestled against their backs. Fans from every state in the union formed a camper city that was soon awash in beer, dope, cocaine and false rumors of savage beatings and rapes...
...knows the grind better than Tom Ferguson. Last year he drove 80,000 miles in his 1973 Ford camper to compete in 112 rodeos from Florida to Alberta. In a dizzying week recently, he made three 800-mile round trips to appear in a pair of rodeos in Utah and a nine-day competition in Cheyenne. "If there's a choice between staying one place and going," explains the tireless Ferguson, "I'd rather keep going...
Shaw is convoyed by Andy Turner, a home-town pal driving a green and white Ford camper in which the skater eats at least five meals a day (steak, hamburger or eggs). He has been getting a hero's greeting at small towns en route. He has also been treated at three hospitals for blisters and muscle strains. In Flora, Ill., where TIME'S Dick Woodbury first caught up with the long-distance roller, Shaw was made an honorary citizen by the mayor. In most towns he is besieged by autograph seekers and frequently treated to a free...