Why
Would Someone Collect Insulators? 
I became fascinated with glass insulators because of the myriad of colors used in their manufacture. Turns out that was not intentional on the manufacturers part. They spent lots of time trying to figure out how to get rid of the colors! Clear was the desired effect in the final product. I'm glad to took them many years to get there!
The
other benefit I get from collecting the jewels of the wire is the memories...
When
I was on the road, with parents who thought nothing of traveling half way
across the US for vacation and later as a professional truck driver and
finally, just because the urge would hit me, I looked at a lot of scenery
going by.
The
one thing you could count on seeing no matter what part of the country
you where in was poles going off into the distance. Remembering that
always brings me to feelings of excitement and a thought of "What's over
the horizon?" Anything could happen when you followed those poles
and wires. And it seems like it did too! Still does in some places...
