What do you do when you're a happy camper but your partner is less keen on a night under canvas? Wally Byam's solution was to invent the Airstream, which started in the late 1920s as a wooden platform atop the chassis of a Ford Model T and by 1937 was a sleek aluminum-clad trailer marketed as "an airplane without wings ... luxurious in the extreme." Here, @Smithsonianmag looks at the origin and evolution of this American classic.

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#Travel #HIstory @histodons #Automotive #Airstream #USA

That #camping #roadtrip with #teenagers to shark #camp in #Mississippi with a stop in #Alabama

The love of a #Westie lives forever in your heart

#silentsunday
#GeorgiaOnMyMind
#dogsofmastodon
#airstream
#camping
#westie

Sunset from the camper overlooking a lake. #FensterFreitag #AirStream #BaseCamp

Too early for a #FensterFreitag, but too magical not to share. Kentucky - you were the right choice for a stop on the long drive home. #AirStream

The thing about pulling an airstream basecamp cross country, is that its like being low-key passive-aggressively tailgaited by a cylon. #AirStream #Toaster #BattlestarGalactica

There is much I don’t miss about full time RV travel, but I do miss the regular exposure to glorious golden hours in stunningly beautiful places. Lake Meredith, Texas May, 2017 #photography #color #landscape #texas #sunset #goldenhour #lakemeredith #rv #airstream

#introduction
Hi, I’m Jim.
️ I’m the Digital Minister at The Riverside Church where I create #OnlineContent and cultivate #OnlineCommunity. #ProgressiveChristianity #DigitalMinistry #OnlineChurch
My wife & I have 2 amazing boys but they’re still so young that I no longer know what it means to sleep through the night. In the summer we go camping in our 16’ #Airstream. #DadLife #Parenting
Any free time is usually spent #running or looking for an upcoming #marathon to train for. #runner