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- Flying Cloud is the model name of our 1963 Airstream... now at large (but often just parked) in the 38th state.
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- Our Flying Cloud was built in Santa Fe Springs, California around 1962. Airstream manufactured the Flying Cloud model from 1950-1963, so this one was the end of the line.
- It was originally registered as #11229 in the Wally Byam Caravan Club International, or so we have heard.
- We took over this blog along with the trailer from the previous owners. We are the Flying Cloud's fifth owners.
- An ad for a 1958 Flying Cloud.
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please hurry up on wyoming
I am a little bit of a map person. It runs in the family. We got the Colorado Benchmark atlas as soon as it came out last year; I have since bought two more (car, truck, house), and we can't drive anywhere without it. The cartography in these atlases is superior to that in the old DeLorme atlases - especially when looking for the kinds of things we are always looking for - forest service roads, trailheads, campgrounds, topography, elevation, boondocking spots. They all say field-checked for accuracy... I would like to know how to get job as a "field checker." Sounds like a cushy job kinda like being a BMW test driver or a Feng Shui consultant. (<-- Lots of great jobs at that link.)
Anyway, for an upcoming Wyoming/Idaho trip I went to buy two more atlases... Only to find out the Wyoming version isn't due out until Aug 20 which is the day after I get home. Go figure.
It still cracks me up (in a good way) that we now carry around state road atlases to every Rocky Mountain state (EXCEPT Wyoming) instead of a Rand McNally DC street guide.
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