Some Suggested New Names for RVs in Contemporary America
In recent years, I have developed the curious hobby of compiling the interesting and arresting names of RVs I see rambling up and down Highway 101.
The names from the 70s and 80s are easily the most memorable. (Vixen and Ambassador are two favorite.)
The names for the newer models suck: Attitude, Ultra Maxx, Super Lite, Vegas, Era (era?).
Somewhere along the way, RV names stopped being existentially-themed and became banal or stupidly contrived with misspellings to boot.
Think The Seeker or The Defender from the 1970s versus Nite Hawk today.
Why the change? I don’t know but there is a novel in the change. It also probably has something to do with the dumbing down and branding up of Americans.
During the American Apocalypse currently unfolding, I have taken to inventing new names for RVs that might better reflect our strange times and suggest a fresh way of existential thinking for the millions of Americans gripped by panic, resignation, defiance, insanity, and anger and moved to buy RVs in record numbers.
Here they are:
The Shitshow Express
Kiss my Ass
Wastin’ Away in Shitsville
Take this Country and Shove It
Loser
Loser Deluxe
Loser Deluxe Super Ultra Lite
Let’s Get Lost (Chet Baker Special)
The Malaise
The Listless
The Plague (Camus Edition)
Checking Out
God is Real and Dead
Booze is my Co-Pilot
Pills and Stripes Forever
Nirvana Or Bust
The Druid Wagon
The Anti-Mayflower
Satan’s Sweet Ride
Hotel California
Douse My Fire
The Vast Unlaid
Love Hangover
Elk You
America the Banal
Nowhere to Run
The Mobile Bunker`
Born to Dog
Born to Lose
Born to Run in Place
Born Free as the Fart Wind
Magic Mushroom Show
Moby Dick Ain’t Gonna Sink Me
Jesus Wept for America
Socialism Paid for This
Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Escape
Travels With Charley