January 10, 2011 Maori in Indio?

We left San Diego, driving to Indio in cold weather, remnants of snow in the shadows of the higher hills. In Indio we camped at Shadow Hills surrounded by huge motor homes and another Airstream, a small one. The owner was a cheerful man in tennis shorts and a polo shirt, with an English accent, totally covered in body tattoos, with large white disks in each earlobe. Maori?

We dropped in on NorCal unit members Larry and Kathy at their Indio timeshare, also meeting up with Carlos and Rosemary, who preceded us. They introduced us to Mike and Carol from Indianapolis, and together we discussed Mike’s ideas for a small caravan to Alaska, not as part of the club. Carlos played a prized DVD of his grandfather’s Airstream caravan to Mexico, conducted by club founder and Airstream leader Wally Byam, in the 1950s. Wally and the times were amazing – a caravan might have 100-200 rigs, pulled often by big cars, with travel to places safer then than now.