{"id":1114,"date":"2008-01-20T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2008-01-20T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:58:18","slug":"airstream-brunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Airstream brunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 30 miles south of Tucson is the town of Green Valley, where our friends Ken and Petey live three months of the year. \u00a0 They come down with a different Airstream every year, since they have a collection of vintage ones. \u00a0 Their collection includes some really spectacular trailers, including a 1948 Airstream Wee Wind, and the one-of-a-kind smallest Airstream ever made, named &#8220;Der Kleine Prinz&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/perry-ken-peteys-rig.jpg\" title=\"perry-ken-peteys-rig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/perry-ken-peteys-rig.jpg\" alt=\"perry-ken-peteys-rig.jpg\" height=\"219\" width=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken and Petey also have a nice 1965 Airstream Caravel, which they took to the International Rally last summer in Georgia (above). \u00a0 We went to Puerto Penasco (Sonora, MX) last spring with them, and that time they brought their 1960s-era Globe Trotter.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we met up with <a href=\"http:\/\/keisterphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">photographer<\/a>\/author \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redroom.com\/author\/douglas-r-keister\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Keister<\/a> and his wife Sandi at Ken &amp; Petey&#8217;s condo for brunch. \u00a0 You might recall we <a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=890\">courtesy-parked at the Keister&#8217;s house<\/a> last November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/green-valley-brunch.jpg\" title=\"green-valley-brunch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/green-valley-brunch.jpg\" alt=\"green-valley-brunch.jpg\" height=\"195\" width=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting together a group with this much vintage trailer knowledge is always interesting. \u00a0 Brett has owned and restored several vintage trailers and motorhomes. \u00a0 Ken is habitually restoring trailers, and Doug has written numerous books on vintage RVs. \u00a0 In fact, his next one is coming out this spring, and we plan to carry it in the Airstream Life store.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also helpful to talk to Doug about photography, since he knows more about it that I&#8217;ll ever know. \u00a0 Together with Bert Gildart, he has convinced me to add a few tools to my camera equipment. \u00a0 But of course, the real problem is finding the budget. \u00a0 I&#8217;d like to get a spare Nikon digital SLR body, preferably a D80, and I&#8217;m still looking for the Nikon 18-200mm VR zoom, the Tokina 12-24mm zoom, and an SB-800 flash. \u00a0 That&#8217;s about $3k in total. \u00a0 Some day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 30 miles south of Tucson is the town of Green Valley, where our friends Ken and Petey live three months of the year. \u00a0 They come down with a different Airstream every year, since they have a collection of vintage ones. \u00a0 Their collection includes some really spectacular trailers, including a 1948 Airstream Wee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}