I don't know if anyone saw Justice Clarence Thomas on 60 minutes last night or not, but apparently, he is a busnut!
During the interview, they were rolling down the road and Thomas was telling the interviewer that he had a "Detroit 8V92" and he had a smile on his face.
Get this!!! The Secret Service would not allow pictures of the outside of the bus for security reasons. They said that Justice Thomas and his wife have a habit of staying in the parking lot of Wal-Marts. HE'S A BUSNUT ALRIGHT!!!
I saw the lower part of the bus in one shot and it was definitely a Prevost. ;)
Wow, this is weird but as I am reading this, I am listening to Mr. Thomas being interviewed by Rush Limbaugh, and he is talking about his bus, and how he love to travel this country and talking to the people in truck stops and at sporting events. He is a cornhusker fan big time.
WVaNative
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3572143&page=2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19672-2004Oct9?language=printer
Here is a few paragraphs from what I read about his bus
Nick-
Thomas is perhaps the court's most accessible justice -- except to journalists seeking on-the-record interviews and to people he perceives as closed to his views. He is known to spot a group of schoolchildren visiting the court and invite the students to his chambers. Students from his alma mater, family members of former clerks, people he encounters on his drives across the country in his 40-foot Prevost motor coach -- all are welcome.
Thomas met Earl Dixon as the justice was getting his RV serviced at a Marathon Coach facility in April 2001 in San Antonio, Fla. Dixon was there holding a meeting as president of the Marathon Coach Club, a group of RV enthusiasts. The men exchanged phone numbers. Thomas called weeks later to say he was returning to north-central Florida in his RV.
Dixon, owner of a pest-control company and a former Florida state legislator, invited Thomas to park his coach at the Big River RV park in Welaka. That night they grilled catfish, swapped stories of "growing up hard" in the South, as Dixon puts it, and watched the NBA Playoffs. And that's how a chance encounter blossomed into a close friendship. Now, Dixon said, they talk "pretty frequently," and Thomas even hosted a dinner for Dixon's Marathon Coach club at the Supreme Court.
I was listening to Justice Thomas on Rush today. He is a down to earth guy and when he started talking about his bus, traveling and meeting the people on the road, it was refreshing. Not your usual political mumbo jumbo. He said he always wanted to be a truck driver and enjoyed meeting the different people out on the road. Maybe some of us will cross paths with him down the road.
I like Justice Thomas and his way of thinking. Now that I know he is a bus nut I would love to meet him and his family on day out on the road. That would be very cool.
I have always had respect for Justice Thomas, this just confirms he's like one of us! ;)
I too would like to meet him somewhere on these highways. It would be an honor.
Paul
I posted some more info in this thread: http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=5820.0
Apparently he has a 1992 Marathon that he pulls a Corvette behind.
I heard the interview by Rush Limbaugh with Justice Thomas..
He sound like Quite a down to earth guy.
We need MORE like him !
Ditto's
Paul... ;D