So I’ve been sleeping in a trailer. At night, you can hear the mosquitoes; they hum together, like locusts or lawnmowers. But the screens are good, and the bugs mostly stay outside.

It’s a Boler, built around 1980. It looks like an egg, and rocks like a boat. You can stand up in it okay, except for beneath the little sunroof — which has a handle that is pointy and made of metal. The lights don’t work; something’s wrong with the wiring. I haven’t tried to stove yet, and being summer and all I haven’t tried the heater either. All this aside, it’s a fine rig. Bolers are lightweight (made out of fibreglass), which means you can pull them with just about anything. They don’t have problems with rot or rust, unlike wood/aluminum trailers. Plus they look neat, and are made in Canada.

Visit Bolerama for information about upcoming Boler events (such as the “Prairie Egg Gathering”), an account of the company’s history, and scans of Boler manuals & brochures (“In the 80′s, all of us are searching for the ideal trailer” — I know that’s how I spent the 80′s…).