BusBuilding

Who says younger is better?

With all the pre-built products out there constructed with particle board, (a material “…substituted for conventional wood or plywood when appearance and strength are less important than cost“) like cabinetry from the big box stores or even furniture from major retailers, it’s tempting to use it and even difficult to find manufactured quality items made from something more substantial. Well, anything on my budget.

File this evidence under ‘extreme testing’ if you will, and like drug testing on lab rats exposed to quantities many times that which would be experienced by humans, the cabinets and furniture inside your conversion would never be exposed to this kind of harshness, but thought you’d like to take a look at this nevertheless.

This photograph shows a few-year-old drafting table which I have been keeping outside as a rough work-surface. I purposely didn’t want anything of quality out there because something with quality would surely disappear into the night. It was in very good condition when I placed it in this location about a year ago.

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“Corrosion Prevention Fluid”

as in,

No problems so far except a lot of “Corrosion Prevention Fluid” on the right rear engine cover and bumper. I think it is mostly coming from the rear main seal but not sure.

Thanks to gusc for the creative writing. He’s well into a 5,700 mile trip in his GMC 4104, one of the classics of the road.

Record across-the-board RV wholesale shipments in 2005 capped the RV industry’s best four-year stretch since the mid-1970s, as highlighted in the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) 2005 Annual Review.

Manufacturers shipped a total of 384,000 units, an increase of 3.9% from 2004’s record total, led by a nearly 25% increase in conventional travel trailer shipments.

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OK, so it’s not a bus, but I don’t think anyone can deny that this example of workmanship isn’t worthy of appreciating. Rich and Eleanor are enjoying wonderful weather and seeing lots of examples of craftsmanship while attending an Airstream Rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Isn’t it interesting that three people can visit the same place and have such different perspectives?!

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“So what if the public’s experience is affected?” these beltway divas are telling each other. “They won’t be voting for us again.”

The excellent New West Travel and Outdoors has a followup column about cuts in the National Park Service operating budgets.

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