Re: [VAL] RE: Lurking & travel

["Dick Harrold" <harrold@xxxxxxxxx>]

After reading this post, I'm wondering how many on the list have 
traveled extensively in their work and how many have used their 
Airstream.

I once had a job that required me to be on the road 49 weeks out of the 
year, weekends and all.  This put 70,000 miles on a company car each 
year and didn't include miles logged in associate's cars.  Yes, I was 
single at the time.  I was home only three weeks at Christmas time.  
Once a year I'd return to the New York office for a week.  This was 40 
years ago.

I had considered buying a "trailer" at that time, but it never 
happened.  If I had it to do again today, travel extensively that is, I 
think an Airstream would be perfect.  It would serve as a living space 
as well as an office.  I'd think it would be much more comfortable than 
living out of a suitcase and lugging all those office files and related 
items around.  Of course, cel phones and computers have changed the way 
we do business today too.

My territory usually covered three states at a time.  Occasionally I'd 
be moved to a different three states.  I could arrange my travels in a 
wide circle returning to a central location for a few weeks at a time.  
I could have parked an Airstream and worked out of it for three or so 
weeks at a time.  I covered many of the states east of the Mississippi.

I'll have to admit that I fell in love with the south and often wished 
I had settled there.  (I wonder what would have happened if I had 
married that girl from Tennessee?)  But every state and many regions 
hold an interest for me.  It would be hard to pick just one place.

Dick & Rose Ann Harold
Noblesville, Indiana
1972 Airstream Trade Wind
WBCCI #8551