{"id":21,"date":"2014-09-09T01:20:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T01:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:59:35","slug":"madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/madison\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was young my father piled the 5 of us into an Airstream and traveled across the country \u2013 from Montana to Boston. It was an unimaginably daring adventure for my 7-year-old mind. Sitting in the back seat of the car wasn’t a thrill but when we stopped and got to climb into our home on wheels, I was hooked. We left the Airstream with my grandparents while we lived in NY for a year. Then it was back into the Airstream for a trip the long way round back home to Montana. Sadly for me, our Airstream was sold but I always hoped I’d get another chance with a shiny pal. A couple years ago, while we watched the prices of Airstreams climb and the desirability increase, my partner and I thought we’d better move on the Airstream dream or give it up. After barely missing numerous eBay and Craig’s List listings, we got our chance. We wanted a late 60’s Caravel and there finally was one, waiting for us in Madison, WI.<\/p>\n

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Madison’s beauty pix from Craig’s List.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took our Airstream, now named Madison, on short trips for a couple of summers and then…we did what we always wanted to do. A total shell-off redesign and rebuild. A new BIG project. The story begins….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was young my father piled the 5 of us into an Airstream and traveled across the country \u2013 from Montana to Boston. It was an unimaginably daring adventure for my 7-year-old mind. Sitting in the back seat of the car wasn’t a thrill but when we stopped and got to climb into our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcarol.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}