It Isn't A Bus: Pioneering Motorhomers Cross the USA

Pat Patterson wants to travel. His wife, Martha, predicts bedlam with three kids cooped up in the back seat of the car, especially if they have to tow that unsightly, cigar-shaped trailer Pat put together from an airplane fuselage. Neighbors’ complaints about the Patterson’s growing mechanical collection persuade the family to move to Potrero Canyon—out of sight. Pat doesn’t give up on his travel dreams and in 1950 buys a damaged Flxible bus. He fixes the engine and converts the interior in...