Last night Eleanor’s new opal and ironstone pendant broke … apparently there was an invisible fracture in it. This meant another trip downtown to the rock & fossil show, to exchange it for another piece. We met up with Jim again and this time roamed across the street to another venue of the show to check out turquoise and cabochons of all sorts of stones. While we were there, Emma was given a pair of interesting stones for her collection. One was a piece of “snakeskin agate” which is really a piece of ancient coral that fossilized and later became agate. We’d never seen it before. It’s remarkably smooth and feels soft to the touch.

We were already near downtown so we headed to the 16th Street Mall and dropped in on Barnes & Noble. Airstream Life magazine is supposed to be in over three hundred Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Books-A-Million stores, but I’ve yet to find it. Not every store will carry it, and the downtown Denver location seems to be one of those that didn’t stock it.

Have you seen a copy of Airstream Life for sale in a bookstore? If so, drop me a line using the “Contact Us” link, or put a comment on this post. I know some stores have been carrying it because I’ve heard from people who bought it, but I’d sure like to see it for myself.

This is the third time we’ve been to the Denver area while full-timing. Not only is Cherry Creek one of our favorite places to stay, we have a lot of good Airstream friends living here. The Rocky Mountain Airstreamers are very active, especially with vintage trailers. Two of them (Fred and Forrest) are regular contributors to Airstream Life magazine.

We met with Forrest and his wife Patrice for Chinese lunch a few miles from the state park, and then this evening joined some other local vintage Airstream owners out in Edgewater. Shari and Rob hosted. They are restoring their second vintage trailer, a 1955 (?) Airstream Safari. It’s currently lacking an interior but the project seems to be coming along well. I expect it will be done in time for next summer, and I hope we’ll see it at a vintage trailer event somewhere.

It’s amazing how long we can talk about an empty aluminum shell. Like car buffs, everyone has some expertise to contribute to the project, and everyone has a question or an opinion to offer for group discussion. It’s a good thing we stopped at Barnes & Noble to pick up another book for Emma, otherwise she would have been terribly bored.

After an appropriate period of time admiring the project trailer, we headed over to the neighborhood pub for dinner. In the photo you’ll see (from left to right): Emma, Rob, Chris, Jim, Eleanor, Shari, and Fred.