Posted by JSS: Camel Sign and Camel Wagons

This was written and posted by Your Correspondent, JSS...In our collaborative adventures, it just got published under my name (The Lecturer)...and now, back to the show...

Above another RPH (random photo from here) which we took on the way out to the camel race track but that is strangely appropriate for what I want to write about today. And as with all sign (camel sign, bear sign, whatever), one should be careful where one steps.

So, I've believed for a long time that each and all vehicles possess certain traits, attributes, and even personifications, and clearly every machine has a personality. Maybe it's like animals where the owner takes on the pet's attributes after awhile, but maybe that's beyond the scope of what I want to avoid stepping in here.

I've had some pretty cool vehicles over the years, and I've associated each one with an animal. One was a drought horse (Ford truck), another was a goofy white dog (a Dodge), and I've had a sturdy little mule (Toyota Tacoma). Nancy has had an elephant in a tutu, but that's another story altogether (ahem, ahem). Anyway, the way a vehicle drives is usually reminiscent to me of some living being. Nancy's elephant was a huge white Bluebird bus. Close your eyes and imagine and you might see what I mean.

Over here we've leased our first vehicle, it's a Mitsubishi Pajero (aka Montero in the US) and is maroon. Really it's burgundy but as Aggies we can't call it that. Burgundy is so, well, Soonerish. It's a good reliable car and we all fit into it and can still carry groceries. It's kind of skinny and long and tall and it sways as it goes down the road. It's not very quick or fast but it doesn't drink all that much gas and the heat doesn't seem to bother it. It has a sort of humped back look to it, and the font grill is something only a mother could love.

We call it our camel wagon.

Do you see it? The resemblance????