Is it a campervan, motorhome, mobilehome, living machine, wheelyhouse, or what?
Will we just call it the 'Van'!
What do you think?
John has made it clear that no engine-driven machine should ever have a pet name.
The idea is the very opposite of amusing.
And there we are - or will be - in a vehicle named after Laika the Space Dog with the Registration K9. This is Sirius - I mean serious!
Poor Laika! Sent off into space in a tin box with no possibility of returning ever and only enough food for six months . . .
What are two pensioners doing setting off into the sunset for a whole year in a tin box with only a bag of rice and several boxes of chopped tomatoes? Or is our tin car in fact a tin Canis Major?
Relax - our orbit will bring us back to base in about 6 months - starving no doubt..
If anyone wants to give us a nodding dog in a goldfish bowl as a dashboard mascot - please don't - but thanks for the thought!
Laika a mongrel bitch, was sent into orbit in Sputnik 2 on 03.11.1957. Laika means 'Barker'.She was also called Kudryavka - little Curly and dubbed Muttnik. See www.spacetoday.org
1 comment:
It is a MotorHome, not a CamperVan.
CamperVans are smaller, with pop-up roofs and separate awnings that you can leave behind on a day trip out. They usually have an engine at the back and the mysterious initials 'VW' on the front. You have a MotorHome, whether you like it or not. And why is a caravan called a caravan. It's not a van, cara or other wise. It's a trailer. A big white wobbly box affixed to Volvo estates. But, when you arrive, you can leave it behind and go for a drive in the country. A MotorHome you cannot leave behind. And wait until you find the joys of sleeping in one that is not level. I have lots of wood slices that will get it just ..... so! Believe me, when you are trying to sleep in the foothills of Tibet, you will worship the god of bits of wood.
PS Lenny Laika seems like a good name for it. Ignore John. Some machines DO have an identity. All my cars and motorcycles have names. Fenry Honda is my favourite.
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