Airstream Restoration and Camping in Texas!
We sold our Safari! It was gut wrenching watching her pull away, but knowing she has a new home with some great people that will love her as much as we did made it a lot easier. We know there’s another trailer out there with our name on it…we just have to find it! Happy Trails sweet Safari…. “ADVENTURE AWAITS”!
Dan and I are “project people”. We love a good challenge and have enjoyed every minute of restoring the 1976 Overlander and our 1966 Safari. The satisfaction we get from the work we put into a trailer is almost greater than the fun and excitement of traveling in it. Therefore, we have decided…we have one more in us! We would like to rescue another Airstream, and to do that, we have to part with our Safari. I can’t tell you how much we have enjoyed this trailer but, it’s time for someone else to take her on their own exciting adventures. There is nothing like a Vintage Airstream!
You can view the listing here: The Airstream Trailer Classifieds
If you, or someone you know is interested, give us a call!
Lose your Senior Pass to the National Park System and need a new one? Turning 62 soon and hope to buy your lifetime Senior Pass before the $10 fee jumps to $80? Relax, you all have time.
Originally, our Safari had a bi-fold door that tucked around and against the wall in the bathroom. It was a great design, and we intended on replicating it when we had time, but in the meantime, we made a quickie curtain and hung it on a wire. Not a great look, but it worked! Just before the Christmas camp out we decided it was time for an upgrade. We abandoned the plan of rebuilding the original wood bi-fold door and decided to try something different. We purchased a white plastic accordion style door at Lowe’s for $27.00, cut the length to fit, and then covered it in Sunbrella fabric. The solid white looked great on the bathroom side but we felt it would look better on the outside of the bath covered in fabric. We are really happy with the results and think this is a great alternative to a curtain. Hope it works for someone else! Happy Trails!
We started the year off right with a Christmas and New Year’s trip to the Texas Gulf Coast. First we spent several days in Port Aransas with my parents. We stayed in a RV park that was…well…what can I say, we were packed in there like sardines! To be fair, the park was very nice, we just haven’t stayed in that many RV parks and never in one where you don’t have room to put your awning up! Having full hookups is always nice, but next time we will find a place to dry camp where we have a little room around us. Most of our time in Port Aransas was spent either walking on the beach or cruising around town in a rented golf cart. It is legal in Port Aransas to drive golf carts on the city streets as long as you stay off the main highway. It was such a fun way to see the city, souvenir shop, stop for lunch, drive on the beach and park and watch the ships come in. It was money well spent. My parents loved it! We enjoyed beautiful clean beaches, fabulous sunrises and shrimp every day! (The Castaway was excellent!) It was a wonderful Christmas to remember.
A few days after Christmas we headed up to Matagorda Bay Nature and RV park. Wow…what a wonderful surprise this place was! The park is located where the Colorado River meets the Gulf of Mexico so you have river on one side and the beach a short walk away. I must say, we are in love with this place! Our site was so spacious and beautiful. We didn’t really know what to expect so we didn’t take our kayaks. Big mistake! Fortunately the park offers kayak rentals so we rented a tandem kayak…twice! New Year’s Day we walked down the beach (way, way, way down the beach!) and found the most beautiful seashells I have ever seen. It was another day to remember! Our cat Mister was happy not to be left at home, Dan baked bread in our 51 year old oven and I….walked, and walked, and walked. Everyone was happy! We will go back…for sure!
Alumination is a feature-length documentary by Eric Bricker documenting Airstream travel trailers and the people who use them. In this short preview there a so many familiar faces and voices from the Airstream world I can hardly wait to see the full version!
Up until now, the project has been 100% self funded, but now they need a little help. Please visit their Kick Starter page and check out the cool stuff you can get just by pledging to support their project. I want one of those T-shirts!
Enjoy the preview, and help out if you can so we can see the final cut!
With both visitation and pride in the national parks up this year thanks to the National Park Service’s centennial, how the incoming Trump administration will view the parks and other federal lands is drawing attention, and some concern, from onlookers in the parks community.
Source: How Will A Trump Administration Treat The National Park System?
