Archive for June, 2006

>When the Pattersons of Pacific Palisades, California, embarked on a 7,500-mile round-trip journey across the United States in the summer of 1951, the local newspaper announced the family’s departure: “Pattersons Leave on First Trip in Unique Private Bus.”

Martha Patterson’s husband, Pat, might have challenged that headline, arguing that what they were driving was not actually a bus. It was an early motor home’a 33-ft.-long, 8-ft-wide vehicle called a Flxible that they had converted into a house car for family travel.

“It Isn’t A Bus” details the two-month trip that Martha and Pat took with their three young children, Charles, 12, Dave, 9, and Sally, 5. Told in Martha’s warm and honest tone, with a good dose of humor, the story takes readers on a bumpy but joyous ride across the country and introduces them to a host of quirky characters from a female hitchhiker to vacationing school teachers driving a hearse.

Martha, who holds the distinction of having lived in the Palisades the longest of any current resident, tells the story of her family’s adventure as pioneering motor homers in a new book, “It Isn’t A Bus,” written with her daughter, Sally Patterson Tubach. The authors will sign their self-published book at a party at Martha’s home on July 3. For more information, call (213) 447-5188 or e-mail lauraepatterson@yahoo.com. Full Story…

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>CBS TV steers its promotional machine into unchartered territory as the Network advertises on a motor home of a Peoria, Illinois man who is traveling the country this summer along with his wife and four teenage sons.

The family devised the innovative concept to sell advertising space on their motor home by posting information about their summer vacation plans on EBay. Full Story…

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