Paso Robles recap

roger March 15th, 2010

The weekend started out uneventful.  We setup the trailer to go to Paso Robles on Friday.  Took our time, brought stuff from the house, chasing cats out of the trailer and finally on the road.  We stopped in Hanford for lunch and I checked the trailer tires for any hot ones, as I always do.  One was warmer than the rest.  I saw the tread was bulging out all round the tire.  I have already replaced a trailer on highway 41 in 104 degree heat and I did not want to do anything close to that this time.  We stopped at Carrol’s tires in Hanford and got new one (~$94).

We made it to Wine Country RV around 2pm and setup the trailer.  We went around and met people from our San Joaquin unit and the Central Coast unit.  We then returned to the trailer for a bit to unwind.  That evening we went to eat in Paso and went to Good Ol’ Burgers.  We have been there many times over the years and have always enjoyed it.  Their onion rings are outrageous:

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Coincidentally our son was also in Paso visiting a friend and they joined us there that evening.

We went back to the trailer and opened the door and something ran out of the door!!  It was one of our cats that had stowed away!  Now what do we do?  Damn cat!  Down to WalMart to get food, cat box, litter.  That put a damper on things for me.  Roxie thought it was hilarious.  All in all the cat did not do too bad.  The pathetic part was that we actually looked in the trailer for that cat before we left.  Grrrr…

Saturday we wanted to go see the Airstreams at Sky River RV, and I was also looking for a 12V lamp for the oven.  I went to the parts at Sky River and asked about the bulb.  They didn’t have one.  I also asked him about the Airstreams as there were NONE on the lot.  He told me they move them to a lot in San Luis Obispo.  We had nothing else to do and didn’t know what to do for lunch so it was off to SLO!

We went to the new Airstream lot and looked around.  We do want to get another Airstream in about 4 years but will always look when we get a chance.  They had numerous models but we really liked the 27FB Classic and the 30′ Classic.  We will see how it goes.

One thing we like to do when we go to Pismo Beach is Roxie eats clam chowder at Splash Cafe and I eat tri-tip at Mo’s Smokehouse BBQ.  Luckily they have them in SLO also so Roxie picked up her bread bowl with clam chowder and we both went to Mo’s.  I love the garlic fries but not so much with Roxie due to how long they remain.  That evening we went to a chinese buffet with the WBCCI units (17 people).

Sunday morning had a meeting regarding the state of the WBCCI and what can be done to help it out.  Essentially it is dying.  They are not getting younger people attracted to the club.  Joe tenBerge, Region 12 2nd vice president, was there to talk about the subject.  I told him about Airforums and there were many discussions about the WBCCI there.  He said he has seen them but they were very negative.  Well sometimes you have to swallow the negative to learn things.  He said he would look around there.  I was surprised how many from OUR unit have never heard of Airforums OR Airstream Life magazine.  I need to educate them.

We had a lunch of tri-tip sandwiches with the units and then in the PM, ice cream sundaes.  That evening we saw a couple of trailers from the Airforums Western Womens rally but did not meet any of them.  Monday was the trip home.

We are thinking about going to the Bass Lake rally in April and/or a rally in Tehachapi in May.  We will see.

Airstream Life Photos and Videos

caadoptees January 24th, 2008

Rich Luhr at Airstream Life has started an area where you can upload your photos and videos about Airstreams. I keep most of mine on Flickr but there is an upload link for Flickr also. Go check out the “What’s in YOUR black tank?” video.

De-tour of America

caadoptees November 14th, 2007

Many of you may know about Airstream Life. It is an independent magazine dedicated to fans of Airstream products and the lifestyle. It is published by Rich Luhr. Rich has been running this magazine, along with his family, AND fulltiming for 2 years! He has blogged about these subjects in the Tour of America blog.

Over the past 3-4 days the ‘Tour’ has been de-Toured. In reading their blog I saw they were in Yosemite last week so I offered our home (about 3 hr south) for a chance for them to courtesy park. They agreed but Rich was hoping to move on to a ‘bigger’ town to get some of his things done. I guess Visalia turned out to be big enough since they did stay a few nights with us. This was a little bit of downtime for them. Yes, they did get around to service their tow vehicle, do some laundry, run some technology errands and manage some business. Luckily they were able to do it all here.

We really enjoyed having them here and we were happy that the also enjoyed themselves. I think it was both relaxing and fruitful at the same time.

I remember reading their early blogs, and that of other fulltimers, and thinking how carefree it must be. My viewpoint has changed a bit now. Perhaps Rich and his family are a variation on the fulltimers since they ARE running a magazine as they travel. I was surprised to see how much time they devote to this aspect of their lives and how much, recently, they had to plan out what they were going to do. I have a new respect for what they go through in their travels.

The ‘Tour’ continued on today as they left Visalia. I still am not sure exactly where they will end up this evening but I will be looking for the blog entry to let all of us know.

If you ever get the opportunity to offer courtesy parking to the Luhr family, by all means do it. I know I will be sure to offer again (actually I already have) and it will not stop with just the Luhr’s. One way to learn about this world is to talk to others that have been traveling it.