Dale Schwamborn

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Cooking Up Adventure

Posted on Thu, May 15, 2014 @ 09:00 AM

Grub? 

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Tags: Throwback Thursday

Airstream at the Greatest Spectacle(s) in Racing

Posted on Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 07:00 AM

The 140th Kentucky Derby has just concluded, with California Chrome winning. My thoughts go back to my Airstream memories of 1957. Airstream Trailers, Inc. offered their first domestic Wally Byam Caravan, the Kentucky Derby/Indianapolis 500 Caravan, taking in the some very beautiful and historic areas, and adding two premier sporting events.

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Roaring Lions in the Night: Kruger National Park

Posted on Thu, Apr 24, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

This article is a continuation of the previous Airstream Caravan journal, published on April 17.

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Tags: African Adventure, Throwback Thursday

Exiled Napoleon and Old Johnathan

Posted on Thu, Apr 17, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

This article is a continuation of the previous Airstream Caravan journal, published on April 10.

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The African Adventure: from New York to Cape Town

Posted on Thu, Apr 10, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

We were journeying to the most formidable continent on Earth. A place of beauty, culture, and history. 

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Tags: African Adventure, Throwback Thursday

A Land Yacht, not just by name

Posted on Thu, Mar 20, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 

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Tags: Throwback Thursday, history

A marriage forged in Airstream

Posted on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

Love is in eternal bloom. In 1960, Wally Byam had a party to celebrate the marriage of Art and Toni. Somewhere on the African Caravan they fell in love and were married. Secretly! No one knew. So in Venice, Italy their marriage was announced, the Caravanners gathered to celebrate and Wally rented the wedding gondola.

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Tags: Throwback Thursday, history

Sharing American beauty with some guests

Posted on Thu, Mar 06, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

The story doesn’t begin here at Dulles International Airport, located in Chantilly, Virginia. It begins in Los Angeles, California in 1962 after Wally Byam passed, when Stella Byam and Airstream executives had a meeting and set in motion the Wally Byam Foundation. The Foundation spanned 15 years from 1962 to 1977.

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Tags: Throwback Thursday, history

Going to Africa takes planning - but it's worth it

Posted on Thu, Feb 27, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

There are endless hours put into planning, executing, and getting on the road for an Airstream Wally Byam foreign Caravan.

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Airstream, the Vanderbilts, and politics

Posted on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 08:00 AM

In the early 1920’s, Wally Byam met Cornelius "Neil" Vanderbilt, Jr. for the first time. Their friendship would last for the rest of their lives.

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Tags: Throwback Thursday, history