You all know that I love technology and I love automobiles. Let’s be honest, I still drive a ’91 Ford Explorer that even off the line, cost less than the stereo I had Howard Becker put into it. People thought I was crazy because I dropped the truck off on La Cienega the day I took possession and didn’t get it back for three weeks. But when I did, BAM the truck was amazing, it was like driving around with the Counting Crows playing in my back seat – crazy sick!
Growing up in Los Angeles, every weekend two things would happen. The first is that on Sunday mornings I’d hook up with the Santa Monica Trail Runners and head up to Sycamore Canyon or some place north of Malibu to the run trails before the first NFL game. Along the way, we’d pass all of these RV parks along PCH, and on the one hand, I’d think, man don’t these people have homes? Do they all live like Jim Rockford as PI’s for $200 per day plus expenses? On the other hand, I totally envied them that they could live on the beach anywhere they wanted to. The second thing that would happen is that on the radio and TV, every twenty minutes we’d hear another commercial for the 42nd Annual California RV Show at the Fairplex in Pomona. And it was announced in that same voice that announced the Monster Truck Rallies at the Los Angeles Coliseum, you know the one, “Sunday, Sunday, Sunday“, I know you all just said it out loud with me.
Long story short, I never knew anyone who went to that RV convention or who lived in one on the beach north of Zuma. And then about four years ago, I went to a place called Deer Meadow Campgrounds in Cook Forest, PA with Cindy and her family. You guessed it, it’s a campground with RV’s, hundreds of them, maybe thousands of them. And let me tell you, if you want to know where money is being spent in this economy, look no further than the RV community. There are rv’s and then there are RV’s, including buses that cost upwards of $750,000. Are you kidding me? Some are even amphibious!
I’ve decided that Tour Bus is a more palatable term for snobs like me that still get embarrassed at the term RV. I know it’s rediculous but hey, I’m still evolving. In any case, in Cook Forest, I had a great time doing what I love to do, which is to run trails and cycle 100 miles out into nowhere just to get lost. And thankfully I’ve been invited back many times since.
So today, I’m making it my mission to enlighten other cynics like me to how super cool there tour buses, I mean, RV’s really are. I’m going to the Ohio RV Show in Cleveland. From what I can tell, I should be able to broadcast live from at least a few of these vehicles that are all tripped out with Wifi and satellite uplinks. Follow me on twitter at twitter.com/CoachAdam. Why should SWAT have all the fun with their toys?
Who knows, one day I might be a super successful management consultant engaging with clients and team members from anywhere that my explorer personality takes me. Jealous? A little.
