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My first real tow

Melissa Wong (WBCCI # 4066) wrote this after she and Roman had spent a few weeks during the winter of 2008 in Southern California. She and Roman, after owning a few 1970's era Airstreams now have a 2008 International Signature Series.

Today on our way back home from San Elijo I towed the trailer for 4.5 hrs. Sign me up for Trucker school. (ok, not really, I can’t listen to country music, it causes something close to a tourettes-like reaction) I was nervous but I was getting a sense of "You Go Girl!" since having learned how to "stabilize" the airstream by myself (small steps guys). I was determined to get us at least to the 395 without freaking out and killing us both. Being only 5′1", seeing over the dash can be a serious challenge so I went into the trailer and grabbed some pillows off the bed and voila’! I could see pretty much everything from my new perch. For the first hour, I have to admit, I was scared. I was hoping I would not be required to change a lane and hit somebody, put a dent in it merely from just being a nervous driver or possibly miss an exit due to fear of moving anyway other than straight. My heart was thudding in my chest and I was certain that every other person towing something, on the same road as me, was wanting me back in the passenger’s seat. After about the first hour had passed, I realized something, a few minutes had gone by where I hadn’t had a single thought of causing a freeway pile-up. "I might not make the six o’clock news after all!" I was having fun. Not long after my straightening of the spine and feeling a little giddy, (I mean I WAS towing a 25 ft trailer with a big diesel F250 truck!) a trucker drove by, honked his horn and gave me the thumbs up! Approval! I felt like I had just been given the secret hand shake. I wanna’ pull something else now. Something bigger! Oh wait. Guess I should learn how to back up first. For the rest of the trip people would wave and smile. Probably just stoked to see the Airstream cruising along in rush hour traffic but if you would have asked me then, they were all thanking me for not hitting their Lexus on the way home from work.

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Melissa Wong WBCCI # 4066, Member since 2007. Sierra Nevada #157

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