Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 33 | Page 34

our heritage of dark skies through quality outdoor lighting (with the understanding that) light pollution is the result of outdoor lighting that is not properly shielded, allowing light to be directed into the eyes and the night sky. The Desert Sands Vintage Trailer Park is located eighty-eight miles northeast of San Diego, California in Borrego Springs which, because it is surrounded by the 600,000-acre Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, is uniquely protected from urban lights making it a haven for star gazers and host to a variety of astronomy events year-round. When I came to the United States and saw the first vintage Airstream trailers on the road, I knew that I really wanted to own one, since there is no such thing in Germany. I was fascinated by the shape, the material and especially by the fact that you can polish the aluminum body to a mirror shine. It was the first and only When I came to the United States and saw the first vintage Airstream trailers on the road, I knew that I really wanted to own one, since there is no such thing in Germany. 32 | vintagetrailermagazine