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The Great Owl of Bohemia (By-the-Sea)
The Ultimate Summer Road Trip ~Day 7 Friday, July 30th A thing worth mentioning about sleeping at the side of a highway -you’re going to want to get up bright and early so as to avoid the interested...
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Kitchen Remodel for Under $1000. Specifically, $33.56 under $1000.
Kitchens and Bathrooms sell houses. That’s what our Realtor told us. Repeatedly. Leaving it clearly implied, if not implicitly stated, that our kitchen and bathroom were never going to sell anything....
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1969 RoadRunner- VintageTravel Trailer-Camper-Caravan (aka, The Many Moods of...
I am currently renovating a vintage, 1969 camper trailer. Her name is Myrtle. (Though I considered Olive, Mabel, and Erma.) I will have so much more to say about this, when I am not neck-deep in...
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Renovating a vintage 1969 RoadRunner Travel Trailer
At 7:55am on the morning of August 11th, 2014, I passed a small, vintage “canned ham” style camper trailer on my way to work. She was sitting in a field, little forlorn “For Sale” sign posted, alone...
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A ’69 “Canned Ham” named Myrtle
By August 15th, I knew her name. And wondered how I could have been so dense, when the Myrtlewood only grows along my beloved Oregon Coast? Of course her name was Myrtle, it had been her name all...
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I Can’t Sew. But I am ‘Hella Handy with a Staple Gun: Further Adventures in...
I like the blue striped ticking better than the red & gold vinyl… The sad, dilapidated state of Myrtle’s 46 year old upholstery. I had no intention whatsoever of taking on the re-upholstery job of...
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How Myrtle Got Her Groove Back ~a.k.a. Painting a Vintage Travel Trailer
After a week of endless rain, and a full weekend of prepping, September 7th, 2014 was finally Myrtle’s exterior painting day! The weather forecast was excellent, and we were ready to make mid-century...
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Confessions of a Trailer Camp Tramp: The Interior Renovation of a Vintage Camper
A short time after Myrtle’s paint job was complete, I stumbled across the cover photo of a great little pulp fiction / sleaze / five & dime novel titled Sin on Wheels: The Uncensored Confessions of...
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My Little Vintage Trailer -All the Bells and Whistles for Myrtle
Soooo, I really need to finish up the written saga of Myrtle’s transformation. For several reasons: to begin with, she has actually been completed since late May 2015, which means this blog is sadly...
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Vintage RoadRunner Travel Trailer Camper Resources, Links, and Forums!
Woo-hoo, there are more aficionados of the fabulous L&M RoadRunner Fine Travel Trailers than I knew! Below please find a list of forums, blogs, and websites that I have recently been made aware of...
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