A Difference of Decades

Earlier this week we reflected on the difference a year can make. Today we got to see the effect of a couple of decades.

Whenever we tell someone we recently bought an RV, we've discovered odds are they'll ask us if we've seen the movie "Lost in America." Our answer is always the same. "Yes, but we don't really remember it." With that response everyone has insisted we simply must see it again.

Lost in America was released in 1985. We saw it in a midwestern theater less than a year before we got married. Boris doesn't remember having ever seen it. I remember it as "dark" comedy that I found rather depressing. And, what did this movie have to do with RVing? I honestly couldn't remember.

Some 20 years later, we put the film at the top of our Netflix list. This afternoon we watched the story about a couple that decides to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, leave California and live on their nest egg while they discover America.

This is superb cinema!

The first time we watched this film, we were 20-something yuppies living in the '80s. We were too busy stepping on the career ladder to think about jumping off. Surely we thought "who in the world would buy a Winnebago?"

If only we could've known then what we know now. We would've loved that movie and remembered it. And, we would've bought our Winnebago a long time ago.

Looking forward, we do hope things turn out better for us in the end. So, we might just pass by Las Vegas!