Traveling in style: Airstreams

It has such a diabolically recognizeable shape: like a huge metallic marital aid, zipping along down the highway.  Airstream RVs make us long for a nostalgic past that never was: the 50s and 60s as they should have been, with tiny fold-down couches. There aren’t many recreational vehicles other than motorcycles that have spawned such a deeply rooted community…our yearning for Airstreams is really our yearning for the past, for something smoother, sleeker, more portable.

Airstreams have been repurposed as art spaces, and featured in the titles of poetry anthologies. They have inspired people to quit their jobs and take up vagabonding, and provide us with humor and amazement.

This isn’t an advertisement. In fact, I kind of object to how much Airstreams cost, when you could be buying a cheaper RV and donating the difference to a worthy cause. But anything that inspires such, literally, poetry in motion deserves a quick write-up on a blog devoted, quite literally again, to the open road.