So I was listening to NPR's weekend edition, and they started airing this story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90321001starting with,
"Sometime this month, a lime green, 1962 Bristol double-decker bus with the words "circus bus" printed on the front will make its way from Charleston, S.C., to Baltimore. It will be moving very, very slowly and will be carrying a man, a woman and a boy.
The four of them - the family and the bus - make up the Sprockets Circus, and they're wending their way up the Eastern Seaboard after a 10-year world tour before heading back to Europe. They say their decade on the road has shown them quite about humanity."
(that's actually not exactly what they said but it was close)
and I was like...
...well anyway I'm too tired to put this in any more cleverly eloquent a way, so I'll just say that I thought "wait, a circus act with a husband and wife team and their 11 year old son? Like the Aristocrats???"