Our 2022 Rockwood Geo Pro 15TB has a name! We promise that it will be divulged at some point in this post. Hang with us and read along.
Assigning names to objects is kind of intriguing, isn’t it? Have you named your car, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, airplane, etc? If you have an RV, have you named it? As those who’ve followed our former full-time RV lifestyle read from early posts, our first trailer was a 2018 Nash 26N made by Northwood Manufacturing. We named it “Tranquility”. Not only were we anticipating some tranquil times on our travels and surrounded by the beauty of our country, we also recall watching as youngsters the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landing in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Our first truck that towed the Nash trailer was named “Bessie”. My paternal great-grandmother was named Bessie. When my great-grandfather John first laid eyes on Bessie, she was seated on a buggy at the reins of a spirited horse. As she zipped down the country road, my great-grandfather asked his friend who this young woman might be. An introduction was made in short order. We could envision our 2012 Ford F-250 being at the reins of “Tranquility” and spiriting us on our way around the country.
Naming provides identity. It also insinuates a type of bond. Perhaps the bond is related to a particular activity to which your object is tied. For example, my parents adopted the 1963 Chevy Suburban that first belonged to my aunt, uncle, and cousins. It was a battleship gray. They called it the” Gray Goose”. The Gray Goose went on many adventures with my aunt, uncle, and cousins and came to us with that history. So, we kept the name. It would be the first vehicle that became our primary wheels for getting to and from school when my younger sister, Char, and I didn’t take the school bus, especially with after school sports and clubs. The Gray Goose also had numerous adventures, including a 1973 girls’ trip to go camping in Wisconsin. There were other escapades reflecting some immature teenage choices. (I won’t go into details). Needless to say, Gray Goose was a fun and happy name!
Fast forward a few years with a growing family, Steve and I had one of the first mini-vans made. It was a 1984 Toyota Van Wagon. In fact, we read about it in a car magazine when we needed to replace our Datsun B-210 Hatchback. Then we visited the local Toyota dealer to ask about the Van Wagon. Interestingly, they didn’t even know about the Van Wagon. We showed them the magazine article. We placed an order and waited a couple of months until it arrived. While we didn’t assign a name immediately, over time as our kids became older and more movie aware, they thought that “Yoda” from Star Wars would be a good name. You know, ToYOTA sounds a bit like YODA. Yoda took us 200,000+ miles of road trips, car pools, camping, bike trips, and more. We should have been a poster family for this vehicle because it was such an anomaly at the time. Countless times during the first years that we had it, we gave strangers a tour due to their curiosity. Top question: where is the engine located? Our answer: beneath the driver’s seat. They couldn’t believe their eyes when we’d unlock the driver’s seat, lift it, and show them the engine!
Okay…change of subject. Raise your hand if you like s’mores? Hands-down we LOVE them. All of the years of camping, our marshmallow roasting sticks remain a staple in our camping kitchen. Steve has such a knack for building wonderful campfires. He’d get a nice roaring campfire going. Then Jeremy, Stephanie, and I exercised patience as we gradually watched the flames give way to the perfect embers for roasting marshmallows. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a s’more or two or three. Graham cracker square topped with a Hershey’s milk chocolate square, topped with a hot, roasted marshmallow, and lastly topped with another graham cracker square, Gently press to get a bit of oozing from the roasted marshmallow. OH YUM!
So…why tell you about s’more making? We invite you to take a good look at the photo of our 2022 Rockwood Geo Pro 15TB. Our imaginations say, “Hmmm….it’s the shape and white like a marshmallow!” Does your imagination see a marshmallow?
Then we look closer at the decals on the side of the Geo Pro. There’s two horizontal stripes, black and gold. Then there are swooches much like giant parentheses at each end of the side. Do you see a side view of a square of Hershey’s chocolate? This is the black stripe. Now how about the gold stripe beneath it? It sorta, kinda looks like a side view of a graham cracker square. See it? Now stay with me here. The half-circle decal swooshes at either end of the trailer’s side look a bit like a roasted marshmallow being squished as if pressed down. Well, this sure sounds like a S’MORE!
Folks, meet our new trailer named S’more! With S’more, we can make SOME MORE memories. Plus, it will help us SEE MORE states, state parks, national parks, perhaps the southern tier of Canadian provinces, plus family and friends! What we’ll look forward to doing is sitting by a campfire at some point, roasting marshmallows, and making luscious, gooey, melt-in-your mouth s’mores. Even better would have you join us at our campfire! Stay tuned as 2022 brings some camping trips and we’ll share more of S’mores travels. Now…what to name our Toyota Highlander SUV…any thoughts?
Take care everyone ! Cheers to s’mores and S’More! May you have a Happy Thanksgiving next week.
Diane (& Steve)