After searching for eight years, Tom finally found his Airstream trailer. It’s a 1963 Globe Trotter. At 19 feet long, it has sleeping space for four, heater, fridge, range and oven, hot water, two sinks, a shower and toilet.  At the moment, nothing beyond the beds is working, but we’ll get to it. Not planning on going caravanning, we’re going to find a way to wiggle it into the backyard to its permanent position next to the pool. It should make a nice cabana/guest house/whatever. It’s most attractive feature, of course, is that legendary mid-century space-age silver bullet aluminum skin. Hopefully we’ll be able to get it back to a mirror-like finish.

Tom bought Arthur from a really nice guy from Berkeley (yea Craigslist), who had bought it from its original owner, a pilot from Arizona named Arthur.

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Posted on 4:12 pm March 13, 2009