Eric&Lisa wrote:
Okay, I'll bite.... Anyone remember Clint Eastwood in a couple of late 70's flicks with Clyde? 'Any which way but loose' and 'Any which way you can'? In one of those movies they hit the road with a bare bones camper on the back of truck. They head out on their adventures chasing a chippie across country. They cook over a campfire by a stream, and do their 'business' in the woods. Every time I watch those shows I notice how rustic & simple the camper looks.
My point... Having a simple shelter on the back of a pickup truck is how truck camping used to be. We seem to have gotten all big & fancy, but there is no reason a basic format won't still work.
-Eric
I remember the movie and now am going to have to watch it again soon. When I was in high school (early to mid 60s) I read John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" and that book inspired me and stirred my nomadic nature. It was the inspiration for our YouTube channel. It tells the story of Steinbeck's desire to see America and mingle with the good people along the way. He built what may have been one of the earliest home built truck campers in 1959 and set out on his journey with his poodle named Charley. My favorite quote from the book .....
“When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from here seems broad, straight and sweet, the victim must first find in himself a good and sufficient reason for going. Next he must plan his trip in time and space, chose a direction and a destination. And last, he must implement his journey. How to go, what to take, how long to stay. This part of the process is invariable and immortal. I set it down only that newcomers to bumdum, like teenagers in new-hatched sin, will not think that they invented it.”
