Over the next hill

by Dorothy Ayers Counts

"Living either full or part time in a recreational vehicle has been an alternative lifestyle in North America since the 1920s. By the 1930s Wally Byam's Airstream company could not keep up with the demand for his self-contained "house trailers." And today "RVing" has become so widespread that, for perhaps two million retired North Americans, home is a recreational vehicle. In this book, anthropologists Dorothy and David Counts tell the story of their research living the life of RVing seniors in trailer parks, "boondocking" sites on government land, laundromats, and other meeting places across the continent.". "This edition expands the original 1996 text, including an extended section on working RVers and on the CARE center (Continued Assistance for Retired Escapees) in Livingston, TX. The CARE center is a unique and innovative experiment that provides inexpensive assisted living and adult daycare for RVers who must hang up their keys because of age or infirmity, but who want to continu