{"id":214,"date":"2006-05-06T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-05-06T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T00:10:20","slug":"hanging-out-at-the-hangar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out at the Hangar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we kept Stan and Eileen up too late, talking after we&#8217;d grilled some steaks by the pool. But nonetheless, Stan knocked on our door this morning to invite us out for a day of exploring Grapevine.  It&#8217;s actually quite an interesting town, with a historic downtown, a lake, and a very nice new city-run campground.  Joe Moore, who oversaw the development of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vineyardscampground.com\">Vineyards Campground<\/a>, was there to give us a tour of the new facility, which just officially re-opened last week.  I&#8217;d definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking for a nice place to stay conveniently close to DFW Airport and yet in a quiet suburban location.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been unseasonably cool, with temps in the 70s and occasional thunderstorms roaming through, so my concern about no A\/C at night has turned out to be needless.   But next week it will be back in the 80s and 90s &#8212; more like what we&#8217;d expect from Texas this time of year. By then, we&#8217;ll be plugged into 30-amp power at Roger Williams Airstream, so no problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Grapevine hangar 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Grapevine%20hangar%201.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a Texas bbq lunch  (can&#8217;t resist the stuff) we headed over to a local airport hangar where Stan and Eileen keep their airplane and Airstream.  It&#8217;s a lot of riveted aluminum under one roof.  The Airstream is a &#8217;67 Overlander, and the airplane is a 1946 Cessna 120 taildragger in absolutely cherry condition.  I&#8217;m dying to get my hands on the yoke. If the thunderstorms are cleared out on Sunday, Stan will take me out for a ride.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Grapevine hangar 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Grapevine%20hangar%202.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While we were talking aluminum, Emma discovered a 4-year old girl on a bicycle and a friendly cat, so she was fully occupied.  Turns out that people actually live in some of the airplane hangars.  Hmmm&#8230; inexpensive and you get to keep your airplane and Airstream right in the living room!  I like it.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s plan is to just mellow out.  We&#8217;re going to watch &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s New Groove,&#8221; have a light dinner, and practice Uno and checkers. Rich C is arriving in his Airstream Safari 25 on Monday, and Emma wants to be ready for him.  She&#8217;s getting pretty good at checkers &#8230;  watch out Rich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we kept Stan and Eileen up too late, talking after we&#8217;d grilled some steaks by the pool. But nonetheless, Stan knocked on our door this morning to invite us out for a day of exploring Grapevine. It&#8217;s actually quite an interesting town, with a historic downtown, a lake, and a very nice new [&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\/214"}],"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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}