bugsy running on lone rock beach with the airstream and f-150 in the background

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  • Airstream Living: Organization

    Airstream Living: Organization

    (That picture is from when we loaded our new Airstream for our first trip, two years ago!) This time of year, everyone is interested in organization and streamlining their homes, right? Those concepts are especially important when you live in a tiny house, and even more so when you share your tiny house with another…

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  • AirstreamDog’s Tips For Traveling With Your Dog

    AirstreamDog’s Tips For Traveling With Your Dog

    We are very lucky that Bugsy is a great traveler! She’s happy as a clam sleeping on her comfy dog bed in a crate in the car, and when we leave her in the Airstream when we go out on the town, she’ll lounge on the humans’ bed and watch the campground world go by…

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  • The Other Co-Most Valuable Winter Airstream Gadget: a space heater

    The Other Co-Most Valuable Winter Airstream Gadget: a space heater

    A while ago I wrote about the fabulous job our excellent new dehumidifier has been doing to keep our tin can home dry all winter while we three creatures are doing a lot of indoor exhalation. Its co-MVP for Airstream winter comfort is… drumroll… a Vornado space heater! [Update: our Vornado has since conked out and been…

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  • Co-Most Valuable Winter Airstream Gadget: our new dehumidifier

    Co-Most Valuable Winter Airstream Gadget: our new dehumidifier

    In December, I put together a list of our favorite gadgets and gizmos that make our RV life happier. One of those gadgets was our cute little dehumidifier that would sit on the kitchen counter or bedside table and merrily chug away, pulling moisture from the air. Occasionally we’d see some water on the wall or…

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  • RV gadgets and gizmos we love

    RV gadgets and gizmos we love

    Tis the season for buying useless crap for friends and family. If you’re shopping for anyone who enjoys hiking and/or RVing, here are some items we’ve found particularly useful or enjoyable during our travels! For Hiking Osprey Day Pack We take this pack on pretty much every hike we do while Airstreaming. We also have a…

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  • Our next Airstream adventure is a doozy.

    Our next Airstream adventure is a doozy.

    We full-timed in the Airstream in Crozet for six months in late 2016-early 2017. The Airstream is settled back home in Virginia for the foreseeable future, except for brief jaunts here and there: three days in Southwestern VA, a four-day music festival, and next week, a few days of hiking in WV. But a couple weeks ago we started a different kind…

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  • Airstreaming at Lockn’ Music Festival

    Airstreaming at Lockn’ Music Festival

    We took the Airstream to Lockn’ in August 2016. Does this belong on AirstreamDog? Because our Airstream Dog didn’t accompany us–the first trip we’ve done in the Airstream without Bugsy. We spent four nights camping in an enormous field of RVs, down the road from an even bigger tent city, surrounded by oppressive heat, orange…

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  • Big Trip #1: Retrospective

    Big Trip #1: Retrospective

    Big Trip #1 was in Spring of 2016; you should also read about Big Trip #2 in 2018, Big Trip #3 in 2020, and Big Trip #4 in 2022! A few lessons learned: Total days on the road: 99 Total states visited: 17–NC, TN, GA, MS, AR, TX, NM, AZ, UT, CO, WY, SD, WI,…

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  • Winterizing an Airstream

    Winterizing an Airstream

    As we are doing our short practice trips in Virginia in January and February, we’re getting good at winterizing and un-winterizing our Airstream. This is the list we use for reference, and while we are confident in the steps and haven’t broken our trailer yet after three unwinterize-winterize cycles, please verify the process for your own…

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  • Checklist for New Airstream Pickup

    Checklist for New Airstream Pickup

    We recently purchased a 2016 International, and did a lot of online research to find out all the things we need to look for on our final walkthrough at the dealership. Many of the items we read about didn’t apply to a new trailer, and many didn’t directly apply to us as our trailer was…

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