As Winter Settles on the Green Tarp

I haven't been posting. Well I haven't really had much to say since we buttoned her up. After one major ice storm and two major snow storms the trailer and tarp are now well coated in the white stuff. Fortunately with all the limbs and trees crashing around it, the airstream went unscathed in the "Great Ice Storm".
We have been without power for 11 days and on the 11th hour of the 11th day power was restored and we all rejoiced!
We have been fortunate for many other things during this storm. For Jon, Thom, Sarah and Daniel and Rob and Nathan for coming up to take care of all the trees and limbs. We are thankful for Helen and Ralph and Merry for being a cozy port in the storm to Sean and I and grateful for Kevin who transported up the two generators and helped get them all wired in. We were grateful for understanding supervisors who helped us through these times when we were stymied and not so productive. Grateful for LG to keep Sean occupied and normal. Grateful for Lucy for helping us do laundry and I am very grateful for Charlie who took care of everything and who was very understanding when I purged the fridge of alot of stuff that might have been ok but I had the willies.
So its now 3 days to Christmas. Last year the airstream (even though it was no where ready for the launch as it is today) got alot of presents: water jugs, camp mugs, lanterns, cutting board/knives. This year not so much as we are all out for Sean. I suspect we will shower her with presents in April.
Now that we have power, I plan to post a bit more over the break...still wondering about folks and their camping adventures.

Camping anyone?

A long time ago I dated a guy whose family took two weeks each summer when he was growing up and they would load up the station wagon (this was in the 60's) and he and his two brothers and parents would drive hundreds of miles staying at KOA campgrounds all over the country.

My summers were spent a little differently-at an 8 week girls camp learning how to swim, canoe and all sorts of artsy stuff. I did not travel around much and we camped in NH in tents.

What I would love to know is have you or do you know anyone who has done family camping trips (tents or campers?). Did you have any traditional activities, foods you cooked, places you went to see?

Charlie and I are really looking forward to starting some "on the road" traditions with Sean even though our AS will be in Maine, we want Sean to experience lots and lots of scenic areas, natural landscapes and have lots of family traditions.

buttoning her up already???

it is soo cold out today. I guess we will have to put the second coat of paint on in the spring. Charlie is going to load the AS with the bed frame and mattress and trundlebed and mattress that we got for it and put a huge dark green tarp over it for winter...we made good headway this summer kinda sad we won't be able to play in it for the next oh, say 5 months.

Now I need to turn my attention to future plans...I have 5 months to think alot through...
In my next few posts I will pose some questions and I hope to have your feedback. Here is one to get started.

If you only had 3 books to fit in the AS and could only read a little bit at a time (toddler, kayaking, exploring and sleeping will take some time too) what would you bring??

What is the antihisis of war & peace? My new friend had a suggestion...lets see if she will remember what it was....pj

Alas a Leak-or two atleast!

After going to through all the effort to get the rig sealed a few weeks back, then a new floor and putting the first coat of paint on the inside it rained like hell a couple days ago with super winds and now puddles!!! The major culprits seem to be seals around a couple of windows. yikes!

It is so hard to find the pinholes or gaps. Charlie will be out there this weekend for sure to figure it out before it snows. I had hoped to put the second coat of paint on too but it maybe too cold.

So here is a question...should we go retro for the cloth interiors? Like 60's kitch with funky prints? flower prints? western? hawiian/tropical? does it matter that we are going to park it in the middle of maine woods? will it clash with the exterior surroundings? Should it?

there are lots of cool prints out there....This one is one of my favorites. We have painted the inside buttery kind of yellow. but we could go with something wild like this? or this? Any thoughts???

'66 Globetrotter

This is what the trailer looked like from the outside when we bought it in CT in 2007.

From humble beginnings great things emerge!

So it started out as a musing..."wouldn't it be cool if we had one of those airstream trailers?"
"oh ya mean one of those metal twinkie looking rv's from the 60's?

and several years later we are now rehabing our own 1966 Airstream Globetrotter and boy is it fun!

We searched around a bit online and in newspaper classifieds and settled on a cheap 17 footer that had certainly seen better days. But it was cheap (took up most of our measley savings) and road worthy.

Today we are mid-renovation. It has been gutted-we removed the former occupant's bedroom set up, seating area, water tank and bathroom set up- and have now moved on to a new subfloor and interior paint scheme.

Our plans are to add bedding/seating areas at the fore and aft and cabinets and side seating area.

What I would love to know is what other people have done with their airstreams and what makes them so irresistible?