We bought our Airstream Flying Cloud 30RB to tour the country interviewing WWII veterans of sister ships USS Nicholas (DD-449) and USS O’Bannon (DD-450), the Navy’s two most decorated surface warships, this for book project “Sisters in War, Sisters in Peace.”

Our original Airstream purchase included awnings all around (ZipDee package on door side), Blue Ox weight-distribution hitch and reverse-view camera. The 30RB floor plan gave us the clothes hanging space we needed, an 8-cubic foot refer (can’t imagine doing with less) and the social end of the trailer at the social end of most park sites.

Following advice from our regional Airstream dealer, we upgraded stock batteries to lithium and installed Micro-Air Easy Starts in rooftop AC units allowing both ACs to operate on a 30-amp hook-up—otherwise it’s 50 amps, not always available. After a visit to Micro-Air’s New Jersey headquarters we also upgraded our thermostat to Micro-Air’s Easy Touch 350. Now we can “talk” to our thermostat with our iPhones. Back on the West Coast, we replaced our four factory-issue tires with TowMax Radials.

Important additions that go with the rig are a collection of maintenance and repair tools recommended in Rich Luhr’s “The Complete Guide to Airstream Maintenance.” Red-When-On alert switches govern outside lights (awning and sidewall). WindowPoppers all around live up to their reputation as must-haves. Circuit breakers have been checked and given names more useful than Breaker One, Breaker Two. What else? . . . Timber Ridge folding lounge chairs (2) . . . Henckels Zwilling cutlery (see interior shot, cutlery in grip of wall magnet) . . . oh, and a binder with laminated Take Off and Landing checklists and other handy How-Tos.

The “Even More” column includes hitch and tire locks, Airstream-style wall-mounted clock and salt and pepper shakers, a 10 x 12 outdoor carpet. All Airstream-related books we could round up are tucked into a bedside locker back aft together with a collection of regional and national parks travel books. Included in the sale, a 3-pole flag holder invented by this seller and now sold by the Airstream Supply Store and Etsy.com. (All poles pass through perfectly round holes sparing poles the pass-through scaring other holder designs can’t avoid.)

Very important for West Coasters, service access to—
Vinnies Northbay Airstream Repair, 11992 Blake Road, Wilton, CA 95693.

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