We Meet Our Airstream

Heading South from Elmore Ohio we reach Jackson Center. We know the folks at Airstream are not quite finished servicing the unit, but we plan on staying in their on site trailer park until it is. It is a pretty neat setup. They work on it during the day and then move it back to the trailer park at 4:00 pm via a little tractor.

We arrived at 2:00 pm, just in time for a factory tour. No pictures allowed, but I am here to tell you, it was pretty spiffy watching them assemble the trailers. Lot's and lot's of aluminium and rivets! "Is this one ours?" Will would ask. From the outside, they do look a lot alike. Our trailer was NOT on the factory side of the operation. Our trailer was located in the servicing building with all of the other oldies but goodies. The tour was over and we descended upon the service department for a quick walk through. There are a bunch of service bays and our "Discovery" was located at the far end. That meant a lot of "is this it?" We finally see it, in all of its silver splendor. The boys started jumping, bouncing, high fiving and then crashing inside. I handled it with my usual, natural good humor. "Stop!, Slow Down!, Be Gentle!, Let Me See!" We had seen countless pictures so everyone knew what to basically expect, but it was even better. Discovery was beautiful. The trailer was moved to the trailer park where the service guys showed us how to "hook up". Being "hooked up" is always a good thing! That being taken care of we began the job of moving stuff into the trailer. We brought a lot of stuff with us to outfit the trailer. For those of you who know us, I am sure this is not a surprise. For those of you who actually saw our loaded truck, it was a sight to behold. We were tired, hungry and PILLOWLESS! It turned out that no one was willing to sleep on their little itty bitty buckwheat travel pillows, me included. Our trailer park neighbor, Bette, noticed the glazed look in my eye and showed me how she had organized her trailer. Wow, I felt like a babe in the woods. So off we raced to WalMart to pick up a few things . Three grocery carts later (pillows do take up a lot of room) we raced back and began setting up house. It wasn't pretty but we all eventually got to bed. The next morning we are all hungry, had no pots or pans and horror of all horrors, we could not find our 5 lb coffee stash. Did we forget to bring our coffee?! This was a huge problem! Off we went again for breakfast. I only mention this because we have eaten out more since we got the Airstream than the entire trip to date and I thought this a bit ironic. Airstream service finished giving us our tutorial, helped get the hitch all attached and adjusted and we were off, headed for Tiffin, Ohio and more family visiting. Did I mention it started to rain. . .