We joined the local San Joaquin WBCCI unit right after we got the Airstream. We were able to get my parent’s old number (#27380) by having my mom send a letter to WBCCI HQ. This was easier than changing numbers and I had it memorized already from travelling with my parents. The first rally was in Shafter at the KOA. It was odd because we knew none of the members nor how things ‘operated’. I vaguely remember something about ‘Happy Hour’. We did go to the Wasco rose festival while we were there. We have continued to be semi-active in the San Joaquin unit but we both work so it is hard to get away with great frequency.
Start of the current Airstream years
As mentioned before, my parents had always owned an Airstream. The last one was a ’92 25′ Classic model. They purchased it new. They always liked to take it out whenever they could. Alas, my father became too ill to travel anymore, or drive for that matter. My mother could not tow the rig because she never took the time to try. It came time to stop using the Airstream.
My mother knew that we would use it but we already had a travel trailer. She asked us if we wanted the Airstream. Well, we didn’t need to think about it at all. YES! We put our SOB on the market and sold it to a family about 20 miles away. We got $500 less than what we paid for it so we were content. The problem is this families’ tow vehicle was not setup to tow yet. We were planning on heading up to my parent’s house the next weekend for a visit and to bring the trailer back. So we delivered the trailer for them.
We got to my parent’s and we took the Airstream out on a 3 night trip to ‘shake it down’. Everything went pretty well except the toilet started leaking. So I shut off the water to it and we got cups of water out of the sink to ‘flush’ it. We stayed 2 nights at Lake Almanor and one night at Lake Britton (very nice campground). We then towed it home.
We had an Airstream! My parents were members of the WBCCI unit in their area so I thought we should join our unit. The trailer already had numbers on it so I contact Airstream to get the numbers transferred to us. All it took was a letter from my mother.
We went to our first rally in Shafter and the Wasco Rose Festival. It was fun but there was just something about the WBCCI that wasn’t friendly to young couples (relatively young, that is). We took the trailer out other times that Fall and Spring, like the Sequoias, etc. We were planning our next major trip, Yellowstone.
