Inside the glamour of The Bush Legacy Tour

Posted Nov 01, 2008 at 05:57pm

Oh, the glamour of the road...

The tour has been on the road for close to five months now and we are nearing the end. It is finally time to pull the curtain and allow the public to see the behind-the-scenes glamour of the Bush Legacy Bus. Although, the exhibits inside the bus speak for themselves, it takes a lot of hard work to bring the bus from town to town. We have a very small crew and we all wear many hats. All of us share the illustrious duties such as cleaning the bathroom and scrubbing the ingeniously-white timeline on the floor. Here is a glimpse inside the glamour.

In the back of the bus is a small but comfortable office with outlets to plug in laptops, a table and televisions. Kathryn hard at work making the tour work.

The planning calendar!

All the necessities: two buck chuck, cookies, an umbrella and passes from the convention.

We are in extremely close quarters on the bus. Every single inch is used for storage, hence our makeshift closet in the bathroom nook.

The illustrious and oft-tempramental, server that controls the electronics on the bus.

Ellis handling the road. The driver poll of repsonses on the road is 10% thumbs down, 90% thumbs up to the bus.

The best seat in the house. Watching the reactions of motorists is a pastime in and of itself that is far more entertaining than surfing the internet or watching TV.

Underneath the bus are our storage bays. Most of the bays are taken up with equipment, literature, t-shirts, and the generator. We have only about half a bay for our clothing and personal items, so despite the rumors, no member of our tour has spent $150,000 on clothing.

Much like the living rooms of most Americans, we have extra remote controls that we don’t know what to do with and a “Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot” sticker.

Although, you cannot see them from the outside there are two windows inside Bush’s face. You can see out but no one can see in. There is nothing quite like poking your head out of George Bush’s forehead.

The preceding photos are pretty far from being exciting. The museum portion of the bus certainly steals the show.

There is not nearly as much glamour as with most political or entertainment tours. We don't entertain the press with catered meals. We don't have groupies dying to hang out on the bus. We have not had many celebrities come out to see us. Drunken debauchery has been very minimal. We get our excitement from seeing people go through the museum and from the appreciative comments we get along the way.

And from double-shot "extreme energy" coffee at truck stops.

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