Looking Back

I don't know exactly when I contracted "Aluminum Fever" but as a youngster I traveled across the American highways looking out the rear window of my fathers 1966 Ford Country Squire station wagon. With my parents in the front row my sister had the middle and I had my own compound in the back, looking at the american landscape and taking pictures along the way, It amazed me to see the variety of trailers on the roads, the Canned Hams, the Spartan, or the Shasta with it's wings, all were so cool until the silver trailer at the Pennsylvania Turnpike fuel stop caught my eye, By the time we arrived in Butler, PA. my dad was tried of listening to me talk about the silver space ship that had two doors in one.   The next time I had seen an Airstream was on television and NASA's astronauts returning from the moon were getting into it. Well 40 plus years have passed and I still have not forgotten Airstream, and to all my close friends who have endured countless hours of listening to me carry on about this American icon, it's founder and the artisans and craftsman that build such a work of art... last week I went down to the Airstream Factory in Jackson Center, Ohio  to talk with Rick March. Well 2 1/2 hours later I bought Rick's 19' Safari Bambi SE,  Here is a photo of it in the service bay.