The Inaugural Trip Begins

Well, we finally did it: a day later than we hoped to be rolling due to an unforeseen brake issue caused by a bad truck-to-trailer cord, but we are on the road! The feeling of seeing the trailer lurch forward…

Well, we finally did it: a day later than we hoped to be rolling due to an unforeseen brake issue caused by a bad truck-to-trailer cord, but we are on the road! The feeling of seeing the trailer lurch forward…

We knew we wouldn’t have time to finish up the water and propane systems before leaving for our first planned journey, so we got down to work on the other essentials, now that wheels were on. First up was our…

We drove to North Carolina this week to pick up a rather essential component of our Airstream: the wheels! A fellow AirForums member was selling the rims and tires off his 2012 Airstream after upgrading to a larger size. We…

Today we got our tail light housings back from the body shop and installed them ourselves. A friend, who owns Malibu Collision/Malibu Customz auto body shop and specializes in custom car fiberglass and carbon fiber, bravely took on our badly…

There’s something so rewarding about having a trailer floor that one can safely walk on with bare feet, especially after many months of fearing extreme bodily harm by doing so. There was a constant risk of tetanus, splinters, impaling on…

There comes a moment in every long project where you panic a little lot and question whether you did everything that you should have up to that point, and whether it was done correctly at that. With an Airstream renovation,…

The day finally arrived: it was time to run new propane lines under the trailer and drill some rather large holes in the pretty new floor. Sigh. It couldn’t stay pristine forever. The good news is that propane lines and…

The finally weather warmed up here in Tennessee, and that could only mean one thing: time to get working even faster on insulating the trailer! 😰With aluminum being such an excellent conductor of heat, it very quickly turns toaster-oven inside…

There was finally a long stretch of dry weather, and that meant it was time for new window glass installation! What a big difference in appearance and thermal performance between the new tinted, tempered glass and the old clear (well,…