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Rolling Solo: 3 Wise Women Share Airstream Tales and Advice

An empty-nester with an eye for the road, an adventurous gal with a pilot’s license (and her canine companion), and the founder of an online women’s community for small-footprint living; three remarkable woman share their wise advice and personal…

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Press Release: TEDx

DOWNLOAD PDF TrailerChix participates in salon event in support of integrating small footprint living across America. Portland, Oregon, April 12, 2011 – TrailerChix will sponsor an independent Portland Concordia University TEDx salon entitled, Mainstreaming Alternative Housing:  How to Integrate…

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Independent Media

Resource for independent media outlets. As a way of saying “thank you” for your community’s hospitality, TrailerChix is providing local independent media outlets with access to many of the short video clips being created along our Highway 101 Roll….

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Highway 101 Project Update

We have slight detour. We are taking our first leg of the Highway 101 Project via Jackson Center, OH. Airstream has been extremely kind and generous and has hooked us up with a fabulous Interstate.  Only catch is that…

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Finding Your Dream Fixer

Tips for Buying a Used Travel Trailer Looking to buy a cute little vintage trailer? Well you’re not alone. There are literally thousands of old Shasta, Ambassador, Apache, Avion, Airstream and fabulous Spartan trailers being restored and refurbished across…

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Wallflowers That Are Hard to Overlook

Heading South or Staying North, get ready to mix it up a little in the RV Park?     The popularity of container gardening among travel trailer owners is easy to understand. Containers are transportable, flexible and inexpensive. A…

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Kill the Ugly

EDITORIAL NOTE: Open letter to our very dear, but pathetically design-challenged Trailer Manufacturers: Dear Trailer/RV Manufacturer: First, let me say that we love you.  We love you because you manufacture trailers and we love trailers.  If you weren’t manufacturing…

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The American Clipper Rocked its Way into my Heart

It was 10 am Friday morning at a tree-covered lot on Sauvie Island, 20 minutes north of Portland, Oregon.  I was stretched out on my bunk working on my laptop when I saw a wonderful thing out of the…

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Press Release: Launch of TrailerChix.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: contact@trailerchix.com Phone: 503.962.9206 www.trailerchix.com NEW ONLINE MAGAZINE LAUNCHES FOR TRAILER CHIX Portland, Oregon, October 15, 2010 – TrailerChixSM launches an online magazine to support the hip and trendy style of today’s dynamic and adventurous woman…

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Editorial Contributors

Shelah Johnson Creator and Editor-in-Chief I’m a total trailer chick. I live full time in my 1976 – 31’ Airstream Excella 500 which is parked on an island in the middle of two converging rivers in the Pacific Northwest. …

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