I recently subscribed to Airstream Life magazine. It seemed like a good idea, since we bought an Airstream and plan to live in it! When you subscribe online, it automatically generates a username based on your full name: it takes the first 2 letters of your first name and the first 3 letters of your last. Thus, Bobby Welsh = BOWEL. I can’t tell you how proud I am. I pointed this out to the publisher, Rich Luhr, who said I should have subscribed as Robert instead. His wife Eleanor said that it could be worse and suggested a more hilarious possibility I won’t write here. The upside is now we have a Dave Barry -esque game perfect for car trips (or Airstream trips of course). Try it!

In unrelated news, we are probably going with the Hensley Arrow hitch. It’s unique and eliminates the trailer’s ability to sway. It’s also a little controversial: no one seems to dispute that it works better than all others, but not everyone thinks it’s worth the huge cost. Our truck has a relatively short wheelbase for our trailer length (this is a relationship that matters when you are concerned about trailer sway). So we are going for it. The company sends out free marketing CDs which border on the absurd: showing little cars towing really BIG trailers. But the hitch is great.