New Neighbor Alert!

Behold:

My fancy new neighbor!

I've always wanted to take a road trip in one of these.

 I think maybe this summer I should rent one for a week or two, and try it out!

Happy Saturday Night!

 From the Silver Suitcase®

and to all, a Good Night!

Airstream Sighting (Not Really, But It's Pretty Close)

I nearly wrecked my station wagon this morning pulling into my office parking lot at The Paul Kaplan Group on Vista Chino- there was an amazing Spartan Mansion being towed by its new owner to Huntington Beach.  The owner said he'd just bought another Spartan and put it in the Ramon Park.  Okay, I admit it.  I would totally own a mobile home like this.  My favorite model by Spartan is the Carousel- with a massive picture window in the front.  I think these would be fabulous in a park in Palm Springs for a full time resident! 

Scooting Around Palm Springs

With all the warnings from the residents at Palm Springs' Happy Traveler RV Park about how hard it is to get around the park during season, I decided to purchase a 1968 Honda Cub Scooter at a garage sale.  It's been a blast, and really has come in handy when two or three RVs are moving in and out of spots blocking passage for my giant cars.  I just hop on the scooter and tear over to my office at The Paul Kaplan Group.  It makes quite a noise, and parking is a cinch in our lobby!

Season is Almost Here!

I was terribly excited to see that they'd taken down the iron fence around the shuffleboard courts at The Happy Traveler.  It's been so long since I played- I might need a refresher on the rules.  Simultaneously, lots more RVs have started to appear at the park.

My cabinet guy, Jacob came to install my fence.  A fence that keeps me from seeing right out my bedroom window into the sewer line of my neighbor at The Happy Traveler RV Park.  It was only going to be down one side, but I got carried away and had him create a 90 degree fence with a downward-angled slope on one side.  It's really made a huge difference in how private the patio feels.

Little Things Mean a Lot

Needlepoint Pillow from Trina Turk

Vintage Midcentury Bulova Clock Radio from Penticton Flea Market

Chrome Beach Cruiser Bikes from Wil Stiles in Palm Springs

Relief Plaque from Estate Sale

Vintage TWA First Aid Kit cum Beverage Center

Trina Turk Residential Needlepoint Owl Pillow

I'm starting to fill in all the blanks now- here and there little things are getting unpacked.  I bought two beach cruiser bikes (in chrome, thank you) from Wil Stiles in Palm Springs.  They also have great clothes, but that's for another time.  Another stop at Trina Turk's Albert Frey-designed boutique next door to get two needlepoint pillows for the lounge area.  The owl will live in the tulip chair, and the Palm Springs pillow is going to reside across from the owl on the sofa/gaucho in the Airstream.

I bought the vintage TWA airliner first aid kit on ebay.  I'd wanted to do kind of a bar somehow, but filling this first aid kit with tiny airline-size liquor bottles seemed like a humorous solution.

The "relief" plaque came from an estate sale- I wonder what it was for originally?  It's going up in the Airstream's bathroom.  I considered putting it on the door, but it's inside near the tiny basin.

The Bulova clock radio had to come live with me.  I was in Penticton, British Columbia this summer at my friends Liz and Frank's place and Liz and I went to the flea market.  Picked this little WORKING radio up for $20 Canadian!  Unfortunately, both knobs broke in my carry on on the way home- someone had glued them on previously, so need to patch those up.

AIrstream Blog: Riveted

 I love reading about all the Airstream experiences that people have had- my new favorite blog about Airstreams is Riveted- they have great taste, and a lot of great info about Airstream trailers

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