Update

I haven't had any time for new posts lately. We took our first trip in the Airstream the previous weekend. We parked in my wife's grandmothers backyard (her backyard is 50 acres on a mountain in Mentone, Al).

We only had electricity as I haven't finished the plumbing yet. All in all it was a pretty nice first trip. There is still quite a bit of things to finish up before our next trip which is to the Springstream Airstream rally in the north Georgia Mountains in early April.

I have completed alot since my last post but havent had time to take pictures yet. As soon as I do I will make a new post.

In the meantime here is a pic from the road on our first trip:

Replacing the airconditioner

The air conditioner on our Airstream does not work, it doesn't even turn on, hum, or anything. It's a very old and ugly unit anyways. Here is a pic where you can see the old unit:

We looked around on Craigslist and found a Coleman A/C for $150 about 125 miles away. I actually picked it up in our car:

I have no idea how, but I actually got it to fit in the trunk.

I removed the old A/C and found a mess of old vulkem and other sealents:

I scraped it all off and cleaned up the opening, then installed the new A/C using liberal amounts of Vulkem.

So for $150 we now have a working A/C! It works great and looks much better than the old one.