Camp

You could say that we skew toward the analytical side – so when we started to think about this year-long adventure, we knew we had to have just the right equipment.  Meet Marvin (aka Marvin the Martian) – our 2016 Airstream Flying Cloud travel trailer.  It has everything we need, and nothing we don’t all wrapped up in a 25’ long silver aluminum wrapper.  Sleek and aerodynamic – he’s the right kit to take us to the four corners of the continent.  Now we just have to figure out how to fit 130 pairs of shoes into a 25’ trailer!

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