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,
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