They say that over 70% of all Airstreams ever built are still on the road. When you consider that the company is almost 80 years old, that’s really a stunning number. Of course, we’ve seen a few that have been converted into businesses. (We documented a great one in the “Raw & Juicy” video.) There’s something about the timeless design that translates well to commercial ventures. Here’s LIV (our trailer) parked alongside a coffee shop called “Silver Bean” in Cortez, Colorado. 
Unfortunately, the Silver Bean had just closed up for the day, and its sole employee didn’t seem amenable to video interviews. So still photos will have to do! 
Here’s one of me and our rig. Yes, I’m actually fourteen feet tall. 
For no particular reason, here’s a shot of our rig in the desert. We’ve hauled this “condo on wheels” all over the continent, from the emerald waters of the Florida Keys, to the mountains of Montana, to the desert of Arizona. Hmmmm, there must be a song in there somewhere… 
While meandering through the desert, we stopped at a placed called “Four Corners” that marks the intersection of four states: Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. It’s a tourist trap, but you can’t resist stopping. So, continuing with the “giant” theme, here’s a shot of me standing in four states at once! 
The 4 corners shot reminds me of the last time I was there:
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Roger, I love your pic!!! Much better than ours in every respect. We had to park our Airstream away from the fun. Thanks for sharing… Oh, and by the way, what’s the story behind that Airstream?
That was one of the 6 that my parents had (we have the last one). I have other shots at airstream.casarodante.org I think that is number 2 or 3. It is the one that I remember doing the most traveling in.
Roger, your photos are outstanding. What a great archive of family Airstreaming history… It looks like we have been to a few of your family’s destinations (the Keys, Banff, Grand Canyon) but we still have several more to go.
Sean,
Be sure and let us know when the HGTV segment will be aired!!!!
will do, Boomer! Our portion of the show will be shot on Friday, but I don’t think it will air until next April.
Hey Sean just remember all of us when you both hit it big time! I can’t wait man what a wild ride from the night you got the Yamaha generator to the slick corporate jet and expensive shades! You might be getting the 30 footer sooner that you think. A cool name “The Kristy Palace”. Now all ya need to stop by QVC and sell your blog entries as season one and season two what a big hit. Hey when you were in Ventura Ca did you happen to run into Stew Olsen? I can’t wait for the HGTV episode to come on. What is the interview about? A show……and RV show with the both of you?
Matt
lol Matt — that is cool that you remember the Yamaha generator! That was just about the first entry on YouTube. I like your thinking with regards to a DVD of our blog entries… but please, can we hire someone else to edit it? 😆
With regard to Ventura, I’ve never met Stew. If he is out there, maybe we will look him up!
As for the show, it’s filmed at some HUGE RV event in Hershey, PA. It will air on HGTV next April. The premise of the show, as I understand it, is that different potential shoppers will accompany the host to browse RVs. So it will provide a good overview of the RV world, from teardrop and pop-up campers to Class-A motorhomes. Kristy and I will be looking at towable RVs, since we are travel trailer owners!
Oh, the PA show is a 3 day show it’s huge! It’s only about 45 min from the house. We are not going this year…..my credit card is complaining. We will be heading to the show in Maryland,not as good but it fits the bill.
While your there pick up some coco shells. They are the husks of the bean they sell in in 20lbs bags. You put it down as mulch and your house will smell the chocolate!
Matt, the HGTV shoot seemed to go pretty well. We were at the RV show from about 8AM to 6PM — it was a long day. Unfortunately, the weather was atrocious! It started cloudy, moved on to drizzling, and then finally rained buckets. So we all got rather soggy. On the bright side, we saw a lot of cool RVs. We love looking at RVs, and this was a great show.
Love the idea of the coco shells. However, we had no time! We didn’t get to do any of the fun Hershey tourist stuff on this trip. We’ll keep it in mind for next time. 😎
Hi Sean, I noticed in the photo of your truck and RV (with you in the foreground) that the front of the trailer is lower than the rear. Was your rig parked on a level road? If so you may want to get the front of your RV raised a bit. It’ll put less stress on your front RV tires and axle.
Thanks Darrel… I will have a look at it, but I think the angle of that photo makes things look a little worse than reality. The camera (if memory serves) was actually resting near the ground, so the perspective is slightly skewed. But the next time we’re in a dealership I will ask them to check it out.