This is my first attempt at posting a blog. I am not sure when I think I will get time for this. I have a fear that this will begin like a Meg Ryan movie, all happy and bouncy with great ideas, and fizzle like a New Year’s eve promise in the 3rd week of January.
This blog is about me, my husband Dan, occasionally our daughter Sydney, but mostly this is about our 1976 30 foot Airstream that we are in the process of remodeling. Our Airstream is in the midst of being remodeled by my husband and myself, but mainly my husband.
Two Christmas Eves ago, after 11 months of searching, my husband towed home a mostly original 1976 Airstream Internation that was almost entirely original. My one requirement was that I did not want a huge project airstream. You know the ones I mean, you see them all over the internet. A couple starts off with an ambitious plan to tear out and totally rebuild a 70’s airstream from the floor up. It seems to be that for all the people out there that start such a project, only one in ten actually finish the monster undertaking. Besides, we both have full time demanding jobs, a tween that plays travel softball and a boat. I did not see where we would have the time to take on a full rebuild. Remodeling, yes, tearing things down and rebuilding floors and such, no.
So at first, it appeared that we got a good deal. The stove worked, the oven worked, most of the stuff was original, if scary (the bathroom is something that belongs in a horror flick) and it seemed like it just needed some TLC.
I was wrong.