Thursday, March 6, 2008

Port aransas

Rigs come and go. Some stand out.

This one stands out. It’s sixty feet long (we’re forty). We didn’t know there was such a thing as a sixty foot coach. It’s not a pusher it’s a puller, so it’s got that semi-truck nose on it. Peterbilt front end. Four slides.

He has a matching trailer but he had to leave it home because it won’t fit here. I can’t imagine it would fit anywhere except maybe a NASCAR infield. The coach itself doesn’t even fit here. Not much of a turning radius with that wheelbase. He left tire tracks over the sand and grass at every corner on the way in.

Sixty feet long. Flames all over. $100,000 matching trailer. 30,000 pound towing capacity.

I feel so inadequate.