Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 33 | Page 9

I am a mother of two. My oldest son is now married and I hava a daughter who was born with Spina Bifida. I have had many different jobs as an adult. First, as a licensed Interior Designer and currently a Flight Attendant for a charter airline and part time accounting clerk for an aricraft part supplier. However, mostly I was being a primary caregiver; first for my daughter, then later as caregiver for both my mother and father. It was while caring for my mother that I decided I needed a project that I could work on while still caring for her. A family friend had mentioned in passing, several years earlier, about a group of women who have their own trailer and camp together. The idea appealed to me, but it wasn’t the right time in my life to pursue it. For this reason, when life presented me the opportunity to get out and camp again, I knew I didn’t want a tent, and I certainly I wanted something with a history, with “style”, or what I could give style! She HAD to have PERSONALITY! did not want just any “old” trailer, I wanted something with a history, with “style”, or what I could give style! She HAD to have PERSONALITY! It had to be vintage, and have that “canned ham” shape. It wasn’t until May 2014 that I first started looking on Craigslist for just the right trailer. I was looking for vintage and around ten-foot, but every one I found, I either couldn’t get to see personally because of my schedule, or I didn’t act fast enough and they had been snatched up by someone else. There was this one particular trailer that stayed out on vintagetrailermagazine | 7