Hello Streamers
The past year has been a whirlwind restoration process for me and mine, one that involved much more labor and capital than anticipated, and eventually culminated in our maiden voyage exactly a year to our original purchase date.
First I want to say thank you to the entire community here on the forums. The greater whole of you have been friendly, helpful, engaging, creative, inspiring, and genuinely interested in the fruits of other people's labor. Finding these forums a year ago not only helped expedite our restoration, it probably saved our trailer from the destructive force of my good intentions!
Second I would like to share with you the blog I started at the beginning of this process. When we were sleuthing ideas at the beginning phase (the honeymoon of all projects) we found ourselves returning to restorations recorded online. Soon we found ourselves arriving at the same blogs over and over, and wondered why there weren't more out there. So we just started our own. It was a great way to share photos with distant friends and relatives and I always had the hope that someone one day might find some aspect of it as helpful as I found the ones I searched for a year ago.
So Bessie is not a finished project just yet, but she's up and running, road-worthy, and camp-ready. She's more like a 70% operational Deathstar.
Thanks again to all the individuals who helped along the way, without your input, I would not yet have made it this far. It is my pleasure to introduce
Bessie the Bouncing Bullet
Happy trails,
~Tristan
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