tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49535610685196737162024-03-04T21:30:33.965-08:00Sweet LimeWhat happens when a couple of artists latch on to a neglected 1979 Nomad travel trailer and try to bring her back to life. Who will be more transformed in the process?
Bet you can guess already.tearful dishwasherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13436954924992728636noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953561068519673716.post-66113878338314474652011-09-06T10:03:00.000-07:002011-09-06T10:47:59.956-07:00Post Labor Day Post Apocalypse Scenario<div style="text-align: center;">
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Our fourth outing in the Sweet Lime was a super success.</div>
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This time we ventured north to Napa, not for wine tasting but to visit the <a href="http://www.dirosaart.org/">DiRosa</a></div>
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Art....museum, gallery, nature preserve. </div>
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Rene di Rosa was an amazing man</div>
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who collected art just for me. Or so it seems. I loved and responded to</div>
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every single piece of art I saw. Art LIVES in that place. At first I wasn't thrilled</div>
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about having to go on a tour but it was so beautifully done, that in</div>
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the end, I was glad it was done that way. The guides were low key, funny and</div>
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had stories to share about the artists and their work that made me look a little</div>
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closer and we were invited to touch and go into and play with the art!</div>
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I am still vibrating with the energy of it.</div>
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comfy shoes recommended for the Art Meadow tour. </div>
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Zombie Proof House is a meditation on anxiety and hope in a troubled time. This
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One of two David Best cars. This one created from Rene Di Rosa's mother's car. Allene, this one's for you!!</div>
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One of our favorites out in the meadow....</div>
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We were pretty much left to our own devices once in the gallery because of an overlap</div>
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in tours. Unfortunately only a few of the works were labeled with the artist's names so my apologies for not being able to credit the following pieces.</div>
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Push pin portrait...</div>
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Still, I love this one...</div>
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and the camping?</div>
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It was awesome! It's always a little scary picking places at random even though I read</div>
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reviews etc. You just never know what you're getting into and this place I picked, the Skyline Wilderness Park has the worst website imaginable and when I called to reserve the lady didn't take any information from me, just said "no problem, I've penciled you in" and then I forgot to call a day ahead to confirm so I was more than a little nervous driving up to the place. Especially driving through the shiftless looking neighborhood and the State hospital right next door.</div>
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It was all for naught, the place was perfect. </div>
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The day we arrived though, was HOT. </div>
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Lu had to have an ice pack on her belly and I took a cold shower! </div>
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Note to self:</div>
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Scope the place out before doing anything so rash. This place has showers.</div>
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The next day was divine and Lu spent the day lounging in the Sweet Lime...</div>
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My favorite thing about this camp site was the<a href="http://skylinepark.org/skylinesite/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&Itemid=55"> Martha Walker Native Habitat Garden</a> carved out of the State Hospital's old dump site. </div>
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It's a magical garden with meandering paths under redwoods and oaks.</div>
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</div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953561068519673716.post-25615890711366220992011-07-16T09:06:00.000-07:002011-07-16T09:06:33.813-07:00Details<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tv-l7BxUCd8pQHtFaWiMTqs5ADngv1T2cztRP4pH5dnynT33gDaGgCXGD-Qtu91JH3N0emLhzJIfXD_mXBQse1SLe_Pf6zTqCyZcrde3kR2UehfO06msoh3w31q0UzqdazAEozqFCGN/s1600/sweetlime-sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tv-l7BxUCd8pQHtFaWiMTqs5ADngv1T2cztRP4pH5dnynT33gDaGgCXGD-Qtu91JH3N0emLhzJIfXD_mXBQse1SLe_Pf6zTqCyZcrde3kR2UehfO06msoh3w31q0UzqdazAEozqFCGN/s400/sweetlime-sign.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<li>Tear off the front wall, rebuild the damaged framing, put back together.</li>
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<li>Prep, prime, and paint the wheels.</li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The view above is looking toward the back of the trailer, with the galley on your left and the fridge on your right. We rebuilt the old dinette table and mounted a map on top, trimmed it out with aluminum edging, which we also installed in all of the corners and where the walls and overhead meet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">More before. This is the back corner, street side. It's kinda hard to tell how much the overhead was sagging, but you can see the water damaged framing, and the buckled, warped, decaying paneling on the street side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With the back window out, the splitting and warping of the paneling was more evident. The little square under the window was added by the previous owners when the paneling got too rotten to hold the support for the window shades. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This part of the project was kind of head-scratching challenging for me. A lot of measuring and remeasuring, and dry fitting, and cursing and recutting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>tearful dishwasherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13436954924992728636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953561068519673716.post-89177389945744689522011-06-29T16:48:00.000-07:002011-06-29T16:48:51.766-07:00OMG<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, rain. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The stencilling was much easier and harder than I'd imagined. I thought the actual stencilling itself would be difficult but after a few minutes, I found a rhythm and it went somewhat quickly. It's the contortions you must get your body into when working in such a small space, that really puts the hurt on you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<li>Get the propane system inspected.</li>
<li>Get the blackwater tank replaced.</li>
<li>Get the heater, hot water heater, pump, and toilet inspected.</li>
<li>Get her legal in California.</li>
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<li>Replace dining table.</li>
<li>Rebuild front gaucho and rear dining seats/bed platform.</li>
<li>Remove rear top storage shelf for more headroom for the man.</li>
<li>Replace trailer end plug and cord.</li>
<li>Eventually, rip out the whole rear wall and rotted overhead. Reframe, put in new siding, new insullation, seal up the holes.</li>
<li>Take off the awning and repair the roof, replace the drip edging, replace the worn out vents, make her sound and watertight.</li>
<li>Then tackle the front end, same thing: skin off, demo the wall, replace paneling, framing, insulation, reskin her.</li>
<li>Scrape, wirebrush, prime and repaint the frame, tongue, and rear bumper.</li>
<li>Replace the propane tanks, or get these inspected and repaint them.</li>
<li>Replace awning with a light-weight vintage style awning.</li>
<li>Paint the interior and exterior once she's all shipshape.</li>
<li>New flooring.</li>
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<li>New Shur-flo water pump.</li>
<li>New toilet.</li>
<li>New cabin heater or rebuilt the original.</li>
<li>New inverter and solar panels to support longer-term boondocking.</li>
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So, here she is as we found her. And by we, I mean, my wife. After being thwarted on her long-dreamed of trip to Japan for some serious yogini training when the earthquake and tsunami hit, she shifted gears and decided that she wanted a little vintage travel trailer to explore the world in. So she hit Ebay and Cragislist and scoured the left coast from tip to top, and a couple of weeks later the two of us were driving five hours south to sunny San Diego to meet a lady in a parking lot.<br />
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The woman was in love at first sight, and I knew it. The rig had a lot going for it, I'll be the first to admit. She was only 13 feet long and came in at a svelte 1500 lbs dry. This was really the whole enchilada, because we had to be able to tow her with our little four-banger Toyota Tacoma, and she had to fit in our narrow driveway with our truck and my work car.<br />
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So far, so good.<br />
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She was relatively clean, and registered out of state, but registered. Clean title. She had a reefer and a stove top and an oven, water heater, toilet, shower, sink, the works. I poked around and did my best to be the rational one, pointing out that the ceiling sagged and showed signs of serious water damage. Ditto with the back wall. I knew there was a lot worse stuff we couldn't see, and what we could see scared the living shit out of me.<br />
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We poked around some more. There were bungie cords tying every other item off, another danger sign to me. The trailer end power cord was duct-taped in the middle where there had been a little road-rash incident.<br />
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And I knew nothing about what I was doing, or looking at. Less than nothing. I completely neglected to look underneath her, or to climb up on a ladder and check out the roof. Didn't test any of the systems, look for leaks, nada.<br />
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The woman heard me out on all my doomsaying, then nodded and said, "I still want to buy her."<br />
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And that's what we did.<br />
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This blog is going to be our restoration diary and our road trip journal. It's mostly for our own amusement, but you're welcome to tag along. We'll let you in on where we're going and where we've been, and we'll post lots of pictures of what we've done to the Nomad to bring her back to life.<br />
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She's already brought us back to life in a big way, so I figure we owe her the same in return.<br />
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Keep checking back, and feel free to share your own stories, too.<br />
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namaste.<br />
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