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?