Upon first glance…at least she tows!

25 Apr

Here are some photos of our 1969 Airstream from the day we picked her up in Elmira, NY. We drove up at night after we all got off of work for the day. I think we arrived at our hotel in Elmira at about 1am.

I snapped a picture when Erin decided to take a break from driving to rest, Lucy decided to rest on her!

Here is the very first photo taken from the back seat of the truck.

Erin and I brought along a checklist with us to check every thing before we finalized the purchase of our Airstream. We quickly realized our checklist was of no use as just about everything needed fixing. Welp! We threw that checklist away as it would have taken hours to diagnose our Airstreams problems. Dents, rust, mold, mouse turds, smells, water spots, mystery stains aside; we decided to take on the challenge.

“We’ll take it!” – Famous last words haha…

Nothing that a little SISU can’t fix!

Erin doing the first walk around inspection

Proud new owner jumping for joy!

Hooking her up with the help of previous owner and Kevin.

When the previous owner came to greet us he said “Wow! I was hoping y’all would be the dixie chicks! Well, close enough anyway!” Erin and I just looked at each other and burst out laughing.

Apparently the Dixie chicks like Airstreams? He may have thought I was the paparazzi because I was taking pictures of everything the entire time.

One final thing before we hit the road, thanks Kevin!

Final words from the previous owner (standing on the right in despair)- "If you gals decide to ever sell it you better give me first dibs!" (tear, tear)