Blogging in Aluminum

To any and all who keep trying to allow/revive this lame issue,

Please put this matter to rest, finally.  You have tried twice (valiantly?) and the members (who all own Airstreams) have said “Nay”.  Let it go and move on so we can spend time worrying about more important things like filliform and gaucho vs dinettes instead.

Oh, don’t you worry about declining membership (I know that this reason is part of your concern for allowing non-airstreamers into the club, lol), I plan on being a WBCCI member for a looooong time and I am pretty good at finding Airstream OWNERS to give the WBCCI a try. I try to make Wally proud, god rest his soul.  Now, I realize the old guard always has trouble passing the torch to the younger generation.  It is part of the human condition.  Someday, I too will be part of the older generation who may not see things in a reasonable and logical manner. :O  But, sometimes we have to put down our Bingo cards and really think about what is best for the club and not just our ideas of how we want it to be, right?

Well, struggle no more, I have a great idea! (albeit not a new one…)

If you want to be a member of an Airstream club… buy an Airstream.   If you do not want to buy an Airstream or you do not feel the quality is up to your standards or you would like a new motorhome (airstream no longer manufactures class A)… join a general rving club.  If your friends all have Airstreams and you would like to keep going to rallies with them, convince them to join another club with you, Good Sams for example.   If you email me I will be happy to send you a list of links to such clubs.  I will even help you fill out the registration forms.

If that doesn’t work for you and you really love the WBCCI , my boyfriend has a great idea that I think will make everyone happy!

DISCLAIMER – these views are my own and in no way have been condoned or endorsed by Airstream/Thor Industries, the WBCCI, SNU or any other sane persons.

If you read the headline of this post could you guess which of those words struck the most fear in my heart?????  Bush? nah, he’s so five minutes ago. Global Warming, scary but I am trying to make Gore proud. Terrorists? The whole terror thing is such a ploy to make our lives even more complicated and annoying,IMHO. Hillary?  She kind of reminds me of a nasty and overbearing teacher I had in high school (do you ever get the feeling that she THINKS she knows what is best for everyone else and she is going to put us in the back of the class if we raise our hand out of turn?), scary but ignorable. Nope, it is none of the above.  That’s right … the winner is… FILIFORM.  It is aluminum leprosy.  It is the nasty little demon who threatens to take away that beautiful, shiny, twinkling exterior and replace it with something akin to a bad sunburn peeling away dead lifeless skin.  And there is no restylane or botox cure for this affliction.  Now, I admit, I am plagued with what may be an unreasonable amount of fear of this happening to our trailer.  If I had my way I would lock our International in an hermetically sealed bubble between trips.  Where salt, chlorinated water and any other contaminate would not be welcome.  I know, it’s silly this fear of mine.   It’s not like it causes any structural issues.  It’s not dangerous.  It doesn’t prevent you from being able to camp or take a hot shower.  It doesn’t even shorten the life span of the aluminum (I hope).  But what it does do is rob of us of that vital part of Airstream afficianado-ness…. the long minutes (for some of us hours) gazing at the rounded, sparkling, silvery exterior in complete adoration.  Why…….why……..why? There have been owners who have lovingly and dutifully cared for their Airstreams and have still been afflicted.  They do not deserve this.  Why, after hours of muscle aching cleaning, polishing and waxing, should this happen to a (it started when it was ONE)  4 year old trailer!?!?!?!  Well, it has sparked some very long and careful consideration by Roman and  myself.  Rome wanted to leave the trailer in Encinitas (we could have cheap/safe storage there) and I about fell over and had a coronary.  My argument went something like; "What!!!!??? Leave our trailer? Abandon it to suffer it’s own fate?  Never.  Have you read the posts on airforums?  Have you? NO WAY.  Over my dead body.  I would rather rub broken glass in my eyes!"   After coming to his senses we brought the trailer home.  Where to park it (it’s former parking space is currently a construction site) we are not sure yet.  But one thing is sure… it is farther away from the salty air of SoCal which means one step further away from that evil little demon filiform.