As you'll know, Towed Haul is safely swaddled up for the winter at the dealership so our drive is empty and all I have is the Airstream Forums to trawl through; life sans Airstream is a forlorn place in winter.
That said, I did get my self-righteous indignation glands going a week or so ago when I received an e-mail from one of the Airstream Forum members. He'd decided to tell me off, privately, about the use of such a weak and feeble tow vehicle; I was an accident waiting to happen and I really ought to read the Forums to see what a proper tow vehicle was. Hmmm, red rags and bulls comes to mind, doesn't it?
I wouldn't have have been quite so ticked off had the guy not been a long time member of the Forum and should have, by rights, been party to the numerous discussions about using anything other than a Monster Truck to pull an Airstream. Talk about doing some reading; he clearly hadn't read, or chose to ignore, the fulminations of many a person on how the choice of tow vehicle was no longer restricted to something that could pull the Queen Mary.
So I wrote back, trying to to keep things balanced but (of course) pointing out that far from being an ignoramus, I had done the research and had bought myself a really rather good tow vehicle, despite his assertions to the contrary. How did I know? Well, unlike most of my fellow Airstreamers, I had employed a professional to set up our combination and I like to think that as a result, my tow vehicle was in fact far superior to most other peoples!
Needless to say he didn't reply. I'd like to think that he was bowled over by the force of my argument but I suspect, like so many of the naysayers on the Forum, that he has written me off as a hopeless eccentric. Ho hum. Only four months to go....
