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Tonight at Auntie’s: On the road in a vintage RV

Dan Webster

Above: This stock photo gives some idea of the sights life on the road can provide.

If you've traveled, you know the difficulties involved with airports. The prices, the lines, the security stations, etc. So it's no wonder that some people prefer to take their homes with them on the road.

That's not to say that RV owners don't face challenges. In her memoir "Snowbirds: How a Road Trip in a Vintage RV Put Love and Adventure Back in a Marriage," author JoAnne Bender recounts the experiences she shared with her husband driving around the country.

A description on Amazon.com reads as follows: "A woman talks her husband into buying a vintage RV, and soon the couple depart on a two thousand-mile road trip from Spokane, Washington, to the Texas border … and back. She's completely enamoured with the RV’s charming interior; he's just hoping all the rig's mechanical problems have been fixed. Along the way, they face breakdowns aplenty, but the little turquoise RV also provides bushels of life lessons and lots of aha moments—from how to navigate an older RV over hill and dale to how best to stock a motor home to the joy of seeing a flaming red sun set in a desert sky. Somewhere between the mile markers, the couple realize plenty of adventures still await them … in their marriage and in the forty-year-old RV they’ve grown to love."

Bender will read at 7 tonight at Auntie's Bookstore. The reading is free and open to the public. For further information, click here.