Southern Tier NY Gathering at Kanakadea

Last weekend we attended our first vintage trailer rally, a small gathering at Kanakadea Park in Almond, NY. We met a bunch of really nice people, checked out each others trailers, shared lots of stories and insight, and then ate some good food! After a year and half of working on our trailer it was great to meet some others who have been doing the same. As a bonus there was another '63 Shasta Airflyte there which was really cool to compare to our own. If you want to see more, I've posted additional photo's from the gathering on my Flickr photostream.

Late start...

After what seems like a never ending winter the Shasta is finally out of the garage and ready to go. We've done hardly any work on it over the last 8 months, but should be able to spend some time on it over the next few. Took it across town for it's annual NY State safety inspection and all is well. Heading out to NY's Southern Tier for our first vintage trailer rally in this weekend!

Winter Campsite

All tucked in for a long winters nap. Hopefully we will make some time to refinish the cabinet doors, build a new dinette table, and to get the icebox back together. Need to repair some storm windows and add some insulation to the house first though..

Tourist from Planet Shasta

I was recently asked to customize a Funkey vinyl toy blank for a charity auction held in LA. I was very focused on the Shasta at the time as we were working hard to get it completed enough to camp a bit this summer. Anyhow here's the result, more than slightly inspired by our Airflyte! You can see others at the Munky King's gallery site ( munkyking.com ) where the show and auction was held.

One Year Later - Wings back on!

Finally finished polishing the wings and got them back on today! They polished up fairly well but are in kind of rough shape with several dents and such. The Shasta feels a lot more finished now, even though there is a still a fairly big list of things that we want to do. I also just noticed that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the date that we first got the Shasta home, making it really appropriate that it got it's wings back!

Camping at Watkins Glen

Took the Shasta on a quick weekend trip to Watkins Glen, NY. We camped in the State Park, hiked the gorge, and spent some time downtown at the foot of Seneca Lake. The annual Vintage Races were going on at the race track and I spent some time there each day. Due to the event at the track, the cars that were in the area this weekend were unbelievable. Many of the campsites had folks who were tent camping with the vintage sports cars.

Camping at Limekiln Lake

The last stop on our Adirondack trip was for two nights at Limekiln Lake near Inlet and Old Forge. Our site was pretty small but worked out well. The only other vintage trailer we saw there was this one serving as a canoe rental shack!