Showing posts with label airstream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airstream. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Family Portrait :)


This will be our life at the beginning of April and we can't wait! Our progress is moving slowly but we're still trucking along. This past weekend we finished running and soldering all the electrical wiring. On Saturday we'll start putting the insulation in and the walls back up. I think we're going to try to recruit some friends who have mentioned they want to help. Hopefully they will. Putting the walls back up is going to be the biggest hurdle yet. We have to put them up with hundreds of rivets and we may have to go buy a better rivet gun because it may take ages with the one we have. But once we get past this step it'll start feeling more like a home than a shell of a home. I think we'll put up our family portrait now, it'll help keep us motivated and remember why we're doing this in the first place. When we're tired, when we don't feel like working, when tools break and patience wears thin, when we'd rather be having fun on a Saturday, we can just look at our picture and push further until our "Dreamstream" is realized.



Saturday, November 19, 2011

Shopping for some aluminum

So once we made the decision that we were actually going to do this thing, we started searching for our Airstream. We searched all the craigslists within a thousand miles everyday, from Arizona to Colorado and as far as Missouri. We wanted to stay away from the midwest and east coast due to the likeliness of corrosion issues because of the climate. We would've loved to get one from California but didn't want to go that far to get it. We were also searching ebay on a daily basis. We looked at one here in Austin, two in Houston and finally we found our Excella in Arkansas on ebay. It looked really great and I thought it was too good to be true so I started talking with the owner by phone and decided to make a trip up to check it out. I took a sick day last minute on a Tuesday and took off first thing in the morning in our Yaris and got there 8 hours later. Dom really wanted to come but couldn't get off work that last minute.
fellow Airstreamer
It looked great, better than I expected, so I struck a deal with the guy and planned to come back to pick it up later that week. I borrowed my aunt's Suburban (thanks Tia!) and took off first thing Friday morning on what would end up being a 30 hour trip...