Annie Lee the Argosy Update No. 001

August was one of the most ridiculously busy
months I’ve had in a long time -

– and who knows how it happened to be so?

I keep a calendar, really I do - but some unexpected things were added to it.

So, you know what?

I just went with the flow -- ha...

Let’s get to the numbers:

8 – days working out / town

18 – days traveling for fun

3 – days in the office and, hmmm – that gives me about

4 – days at home…

cRaZy…

But it’s all good.

And where should I start to update on things?

I'm sharing our time in the Pacific North West in a separate post!

And apparently fall is a great time to launch books,

so I'm sharing quite a few of those as well...

But for now -

Please meet #AnnieLeetheArgosy:

[Kind of a spin on [my and] a grandmother's name...]

The Argosy was made by Airstream from 1972 - 1979...

This is what she looked like a few years back,

and we're currently researching ways to make her shine again!

My sweetheart is a FANTASTIC shopper –

Y'all know we're crazy and we know it.

Seriously.

We embrace our crazy, maybe flaunt it a bit,
sit it out on the front porch to greet the neighbors
and all that - ha...

But I have to say that I ABSOLUTELY did

one of the most insane things in my life

when I drove over ten hours to a stranger’s house, shook his hand

and promptly went to bed

IN. A. CAMPER.

IN. HIS. YARD.

Craig was with me OF COURSE.

But. Still.

The next morning this stranger brought us coffee

and we made the deal to purchase #AnnieLeetheArgosy –

Although, truthfully, the deal had been made the week before

when Craig found her on-line at a price we couldn’t pass up.

[We had been talking / dreaming about an Argosy off and on for months - ]

And. Oh. My. She is a beauty in all of her 1973 glory.

All 26 feet of her.

This is the biggest camper we’ve ever owned

[... maybe even longer than our little motor home -?]

She has EVERYTHING original and is in pretty good shape considering her age –

The bathroom floor is soft and will need replacing…

I’m sure there has been [still is?] a leak back there somewhere…

But we’ll figure it all out…

She made the ten + hour drive home just fine...

And we were even able to get her up our lumpy driveway with no problem

[ie: no dragging] at all. Whew!

[And, yes, I even pulled her part of the way…

Okay - well, ------- about an hour ... off the interstates – ha.]

‘Room’ by ‘room’ here’s what she looks like.

[It all needs a GOOD CLEANING. And I’ll refrain from sharing plans, because we all know those change along the way. But I will say we hope to keep things as close to the original look as possible for now.]

Living area – SO happy to see the original sofa [with storage underneath] and table.

And, wow – those curtains kind of take me back to my mama’s den when I was in high school! There's a little sound system in the roll top cabinet overhead, and there's speakers near the beds, because, hey, she's SO BIG you couldn't possible hear the stereo back there without it - ha.

Love that we have the original table that folds into a nook in the wall -

[The floors were re-done about five years ago -]

Kitchen area – SO happy to see that fridge with a separate freezer

[we really did use that in the motor home -]

AND all that storage!!

And also SO happy with the original harvest gold countertop, sinks, stove and oven… AND the stove cover!!! [which definitely needs a good coat of paint.] AND the sink covers!! [I can work with dark yellow - it's kind of EVERYwhere right now.]

Bed area: TWIN BEDS – yay! SO happy to have these!! This is what we wanted most because, hey – I’m getting too old to climb over Craig in the middle of the night when I need a potty break. [Truth.] There's storage both overhead and underneath! And the original shelves with lights are on the walls at the end of each bed... so cool!