It Isn't a Bus: Pioneering Motorhomers Cross the Usa
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Pat doesnt 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 Pats 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 isnt a bus for a ride that will tickle your funny bone and touch your heart.
Martha French Patterson
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 Université 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
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