European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Motor Home Magazine by Larry Neumeister associated press Ames Crotty and Michael Lane Don t wait to return Home to spin tales of their latest travels in fact they Don t return Home at All Crotty. Lane and their two cats have been on the Road in the United slates Lor four years and 85.000 Miles publishing a totally Mobile Magazine Monk. They eat. Sleep travel and work in a 26-foot 1986 Fleetwood motor Home a solar powered macintosh computer is mounted on the dashboard ads Are sold by Lane. 39. And Crotty. 30. From phone Booths a mailing address described As a suite is actually a 5-Inch by 10-Inch postage Box in Santa be. My. What started As a newsletter has turned into a Magazine with a circulation of about 30,000 and a cover Price of $2 95 $3.75 abroad. Monk is about life on the Road. In each Issue we describe the latest segment of our travels and encounters with the Lucky victims of our latest pit Stop. Everyone from dogs to dancers vision Queens to country singers and occasionally even real live  the two monks wrote in their seventh Issue july 28 we Are a gentle tickle in the Side of the Earnest seeker the frazzled housewife and the corporate climber though we can also be quite useful in fact thousands of readers use our quarterly rag to teach dogs How to Letch lyrical philosophical kind of Zany that s the kind of thing readers expect from Monk and its founder editors. New age hippies who held Down a series of jobs in san Francisco before they answered the Call of the open Road we represent a new style of spiritual Nomad who is not bound by i Clivious norms they say a kind of travelling soap opera Flop House and nunnery All rolled into one " originally they were fed up with rising rents but Crotty said the monks Odyssey was also a quest for simplicity in their lives and resulted from a burning desire to create a lifestyle that was completely  thai s obviously a dream of a lot of people or Mobile Homes would t be so popular we were just a Little More passionate about that than most " the Magazine describes their adventures in a Stream of consciousness. Chatty gonzo style occasionally people they encounter contribute articles m Michael Lane left and Jim Crotty publish Monk billed so America s first totally Mobile Magazine while travelling the nation s highways in their 1986 Fleetwood motor Home. It s like Charles Kuralt with Jack Kerouac and they pick up Laurel and Hardy hitchhiking and then go on an adventure Crotty said follow the monks to new Mexico where it s High it s Clear it s desert and it s peyote  follow them to the scene of the crime White Sands missile Range where the first nuclear test blast occurred on july 16, 1945 listen As the monks expound on turbans China cola the benefits of Goose in weeding farms How Arkansas got its name and what you won t learn through the Arkansas department of  the Magazine s advertisements offer All natural sunscreens herbal toothpaste the secret to instant memory Massage tables Indian style ceremonial Drums and the a rated Bible " with advertiser and Reader support the monks break even. Eventually Lane Hopes to distribute Monk in Europe and to travel overseas for now they explore the United states changing directions on a whim. Last Winter they were in Minnesota and chose to go to Mardi gras in new Orleans. But the Van Slid off an icy Road and about 30 residents of the tiny Village of Calico Rock Ark. Emerged with shovels we almost lost the Van and ourselves Lane said these people All came out and rescued us and helped us get started. It was touching being on the Road you have to open up to All people. There re a lot of people travelling like us in vans but they would never have these Chance encounters because they will just stick to certain tourist centers or what s expected " As a result stereotypes crumble along the Way in the South we thought they were going to be a Bunch of bigoted racist rednecks and though that exists everyone you run into is really open minded most people everywhere Are incredibly Friendly Lane said. This is a simple journey that Many people have carried out we just got very Complex about it Crotty said we go to places that Are unheralded or to places that you dare not go with a motor Home and Manhattan fits into the latter category. 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