On the Road Again....

She is on the road and we are stopped for the night in Central Florida- heading for home. I want to drive fast and go through the night, like the usual road trip- but know that it will take me longer to get home with the airstream. We are long and will likely spend the whole trip in the slow lane- and get tired early from the extra attention required. I am really hoping that we will get home before Tuesday. Here is what she looked like right before hooking her up to the truck.

Driving is a breeze- much easier than I anticipated- and the three hours pulling her down the road were a lot of fun. We are driving a HUGE rented Ford F350 with dual wheels, so the mountains will be no problem. I will have to purchase some other kind of truck when the trailer is ready for camping. Nice to have the power, but my dad says of a truck like this, "It passes everything on the road but a gas station".

It is the one that looks like a giant toaster....

It is official, I have inherited my little brother's airstream. This trailer was my fathers first, then belonged to each of my brothers and is now sitting in a florida swamp- waiting for me to go get it. Every time I talk to someone about it, I have to bring up the toaster image, but when I was a kid, I knew what an airstream was.

I am very much looking forward to restoring her to her original condition and traveling west with my sweetie. When I am done with it, I will be passing it on to my brother's daughter.

I have rented a truck and will be driving down to pick it up, leaving here with my brother's wife on Thursday. No idea what I will find there, but hoping that it will be an easy move, but expecting that us two girls might have trouble.

There is a website here showing the exact same trailer- I will post pictures of mine next week.