just for fun, name or no name

yes, we call it "The Trailer"

HaRVey

Roll-N-Condo

COW..Condo On Wheels

Our Phaeton is Phaeton Place
Our Trail-Lite B+ is MinnieMee
Our red Mazda Miata with retractable hardtop is Li'l Red
Our Ford Flex is the Oster Toaster

Yep, ours is Sunny

Dave

My wife calls our motorhome Arvee, or Arrrrrr for short. My wife calls her vehicle which is our tow vehicle "Jeep". I'm not into renaming vehicles either.

My friends called our previous motor home "The Milk Truck" for it's unique style, shape, and size....a toned-down version of the Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile. But we called it "The Camper". We are not very creative with names. We named our sons Tim, Ben, and John.


The only vehicle we owned given a real name was given from my wife to our well used 1993 Mazda Miata stick shift. When I got it road worthy, I encouraged my wife to run her errands with that car. She came back calling the car "Zippy" thereafter. She really liked that car. We should have kept it longer.

I think naming is OK, and naming (technically "christening") should be done with a degree of ceremony including oratory and oblation.
Most of us do this lightly, but we are crossing the threshold of tradition, lore, legend... basically superstition... And those gods (lowercase "g" intentional) become particularly irritated (again based on lore) when we attempt to replace a vessel's given identity with another. FAR more involved in a "subsequent christening" than the original one. MUCH more champagne to be poured into the water, etc, etc. Either more "gods" or the ones initially invoked require more oblation for renaming than simply naming. gOOgle "renaming a boat" to have some fun with this. There are many parallels between Boats and RV's. Expensive, High Maintenance Money Pits that provide enjoyment the non-RVers and non-Boaters can't understand. Common sense can't justify Uncommon Enjoyment. There are differences, even though both have "wheels." With a Boat, we try to keep water from coming in through the Bottom: with RV's its from the Top.

The Southwind.

"The Love Shack".