Having been introduced
to the joys of camping
as an affordable way to
travel back when her
children were younger,
Julie continued to enjoy camping with
the kids even after becoming a single
parent. Having bought a small tent so
that she could ‘tag along” with some
photographer friend of hers on camping
trips revived her interest in camping
but Julie soon discovered that she was
getting too old to find the same kind of
joy in sleeping on the ground and trying
to get her jeans on whilst lying down.
In 2011, while on their way to the
Albuquerque International Balloon
Fiesta, Julie and her husband came
across a caravan of women at Cline’s
Corner in New Mexico, Julie recalls falling
“head over heels in love with their little
character-filled vintage trailers”.
She learned later that the group were
members of the women’s outdoor
adventure group ‘Sisters on the Fly’.
Within a month of beginning the search,
Julie bought her 13-foot 1969 Okanagan
from Palm Springs, California for a price
that she says now is “more than I would
have if I had known better”. The trailer had
originally been made in Penticton, British
Columbia and seems to be quite rare as
Julie says she has only found evidence of
two others like hers still around.
Their first experience of towing the trailer
was when they brought it back to Texas
from Palm Springs.
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