RE: ihc-digest V6 #525

[pharmer <pharmer@domain.elided>]

John H. wrote:
> The folks that I would take to the desert, each Spring called our
> Travelall, the Big Green Hog.

Cool, maybe they're sisters?

I think somebody else once wrote that Travelalls are female.  I picture mine
as a big-boned woman with too many mai-tais kicking it up on a small dance
floor.  Kinda like Miss Piggy on stereoids.  She thinks she's beautiful, she
doesn't realize how big she is or how intimidated the other dancers are.
And nobody will tell her, because if you got her mad, she could probably
clear the bar ;-)

Whereas the Scout seems more like a burly little guy.  Kinda like that
175-lb 5'4" master gunnery sergeant I once knew in the marine corps.  He
could do 20 miles a day on forced marches with no sweat, then kick butt that
night!

Green is my favorite color.  Always has been.  But, that green of my
'74 travelall is the ugliest color to ever creep out from under a rock!
Maybe the ugly green on the outside is just a bleached and beaten version of
the much more attractive (medium, kinda metallic) color on the inside.  Boy,
that sounds like a fun job: buffing the paint on a travelall!

Ken Farmer