Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 40 | Page 11

the terrible storms swept through the Shasta and Redding areas. I don’t travel with others very often as I tend to slow things down too much for most people, but we were great travel mates and are now great friends. Charlene lives in Talent, Oregon which is about halfway between Ashland and Medford and not far from the border of California. When I asked her how she got into vintage trailers, she told me that she had always been intrigued by the shape of the “canned ham” style of vintage trailers. She had owned a newer RV in the past but was never really happy with the odd interior layout and said she always felt cramped in it, so she decided to sell it and pursue her dreams of vintage trailer ownership. Her search saw her hitting up the usual online sites and before long she found one nearby in Medford for $4,000. She told me that the couple she bought it from had done a really nice job of restoring the interior, but that the outside still needed some work. Charlene quickly got stuck in, vintagetrailermagazine | 9