It Isn't A Bus: Pioneering Motorhomers Cross the USA - Couverture souple

Tubach, Sally

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1420881663 ISBN 13 : 9781420881660

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

Pat Patterson wants to travel. His wife, Martha, predicts bedlam with three kids cooped up in the back seat of the car, especially if they have to tow that unsightly, cigar-shaped trailer Pat put together from an airplane fuselage. Neighbors' complaints about the Patterson's growing mechanical collection persuade the family to move to Potrero Canyon-out of sight. Pat doesn't give up on his travel dreams and in 1950 buys a damaged Flxible bus. He fixes the engine and converts the interior into a prototype motorhome. In the summer of 1951 the Pattersons take off from Pacific Palisades, California and head east. Approaching Las Vegas, the engine overheats. With Martha at the wheel, the clutch housing explodes on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in Arizona. In the desert heat, Pat picks up a fur-clad, female hitchhiker who turns out to be a proselytizing evangelist, only to give her the slip when he rescues two vacationing schoolteachers whose hearse is stuck in the Kansas mud. Written by Pat's wife and daughter, the memoir is full of colorful characters and adventures that confront this pioneer motorhoming family. How do they manage this 7,500-mile journey? What do they learn? Grab a seat on the bus that isn't a bus for a ride that will tickle your funny bone and touch your heart.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Martha French Patterson is the author of The Backyard Bomber of Pacific Palisades. Born in Ohio, she came to California in 1921 and to Pacific Palisades in early 1925. She married Charles Everett Patterson in 1938 and raised three children. Today she is a member of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society, the Potrero Canyon Citizen Advisory Committee, the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the longest-time member of the Community Methodist Church, and the longest-time resident of Pacific Palisades. Martha's daughter, Sally Patterson Tubach, is the author of Memoirs of a Terrorist and co-author of An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust. She has a doctorate in German Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and an honorary doctorate from the Universit¿ Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She has two stepchildren and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, a writer and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1420881663
• ISBN 13: 9781420881660
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne