Hey all you late comers,
I started this thread three+ years ago. You need to read the entire thing before you start berating me. Somewhere around 17 I say something to the effect of maybe I was wrong about the parks...I see that it's like a club. OK, well and good. That's cool.
That being said, I have been snubbed by Airstream guys on many occasions. And I even owned one at the time! But the best one to date was while pulling my current rig, a 1987 34' Avion 34X (I'll put it's build quality against any other trailer) when a guy in an Airstream started to wave at me, then pulled his hand back really quickly when he realized it wasn't an Airstream. That was funny!
But anyway, I have no malice toward these parks. More power to them. I was just curious if they were truly brand specific, or more type specific.
I think the place my grandfather was staying that switched over might have been that Christmas RV park. It's some place not too terribly far from Orlando. I think it's between Orlando and Cape Canaveral, but I've never been there. I thought he called it Christmas FL or something like that. But at any rate, he had a 35' Holiday Rambler there for years. Park switched over, and they let him keep it there for awhile but he had to pay a higher rate. I think it might have changed owners again and I believe they told him he had to get an Airstream if he wanted to stay there. So he got a '67 26 foot Airstream and fixed it up enough to roll and took it down there for one year. I guess he sold the Rambler in FL. But, that Airstream didn't have enough room for he and my grandma so they came back north in January. He then sold the 26 footer to a guy down the road here who fixed it up really nicely. Guy made new frame sections and everything for it. But anyway, I'm not sure the name of the place but I think it might have been the Christmas park.
I guess after all is said and done, the Tin Can Tourists are more for me personally than the WBCCI. I like ALL the silver trailers. I liked my 31' Airstream, I really like my 34' Avion, I want to buy my grandfather's '58 Airstream Traveler (I think that's the official/unofficial name of it...it's a 17 or 18 footer), and the stuff I've read on the Silver Streaks and Streamlines make them look really good to me. I like them all. So I'd like to go to a rally where I could see all of them.
Although like the one other poster said, I really go camping for the location and not so much the company. I'm usually the only silver camper there. And even if it's not an Airstream, I shine her up nice and deploy the five blue awnings and I usually get some compliments from guys with rigs that cost a whole lot more than mine. Nice thing about these silver tubes....you take care of them and it's hard to tell if it's two years old or forty.
Anyway, I'll still wave happily at you guys in the blue hats, even if you don't wave back
Just try to be nice.
See ya on the road,
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