1963, a good year for aristocrats

1963 Aristocrat Lil Loafer. Grand daughter texted Dennis to meet to check out this little camper trailor.  She wants to haul it with her mini Cooper, live  in it , and work remotely which she is already doing, designing for Khols.

 She found this beauty  on Craig's list Bellingham , located south of here up in the forest. It wore a zillion stickers of blue grass festivals , has seen some good times. The seller/owner said that if they removed all of the bluegrass stickers it might fall apart.
 

Grand daughter, Keeka,( Jessica) has traveled extensively alone in her  Cooper  everywhere she wants to go- which is EVERYWHERE. Adventurous little soul. Everything in her world is small and manageable, She moves like a sprite, all 99 pounds of her.

The sale went well, the lad selling it was awesome. Builder of beautiful things, garden, house, landscaping the side of the forested mountain. Sensible. Two of his friends were there also, being remarkably helpful and knowledgeable. One lad, that I truly enjoyed chatting with, lives in Bellingham in Emily's neighborhood. He grew up in Benoni, just outside of Joburg SA. He also found himself  in Wyoming working at the refinery six miles from my home for a spell...we laughed , knowing how shite that was!

We shared our terrible stories of the terrible places in the middle of dirt and wind . He reckoned Benoni was similar to Rawlins- we agreed that we  had a leg up on living on this planet- If you can handle those  soul sucking  areas, and actually make an escape, you can handle just about everywhere else- Mars? No problem! Everywhere else in the world looks do-able and pretty  great! 

He also lived and worked in London for a while, after leaving South Africa- for good!  Lovely lad- he and his wife have decided NOT to have children, being fully aware of the dire earth situation and what little time we, as humans, have left on this space rock. We laughed that even apocalyptic days would be a cinch  having grown up in the places we did, but no reason to inflict that sort of survival on a youngin'. They are considering adopting ready made, off the rack, children and  will not contribute to a way- too -many -humans situation. 

 

---There she goes , out of the woods, down the mountain, mini cooper pulling her old/new digs. She will make it a thing of wonder! It seems to be a thing. A wonderful thing!! How many times can I say "thing"?

We followed behind to make sure there were no freeway issues, she scooted along perfectly.  You can see that the Lil  Loafer has been put together with screws rather than rivets which is  great for taking apart to fix. Absolutely LOVE this little "thing"...thing is good.

Storing it here until next week end when she will come back up and retrieve it. Her Mom does not know about this new plan of hers and  will be freaked, for sure. So, breaking in the idea slowly will save her mother from blowing a fuse and possibly exploding -or just melting,  seeping into a crack in the floor.  Mother's worry.

 

Wallace, the dog, and the two cats can not believe their old friend is driving away- dang, that was their club house. I am a little bit more than jealous of Keeka's purchase and her fabulous life- we have had our day in the sun, this is a young woman's world!  Granny, take a back seat.