AND THEN, SOMETHING MAGICAL HAPPENED! You know, when the time and location works out just perfectly, it’s serendipity! Jim and I joined a few friends at the Newport Beach Film Festival for the West Coast premiere of, ‘Alumination’. This film holds a special place in our hearts as it’s been several years in the making; provided us an opportunity to meet up once again with director, Eric Bricker, the creative genius behind the camera; and gave us the proud honor to see Pearl, our 1954 Airstream Flying Cloud, make her BIG screen debut. It beautifully weaves never-before-seen archival footage with modern day Airstreams to present the history of our aluminum dream makers through the years. Highly visible in the film is Airstream’s creator, Wally Byam, responsible for some amazing caravans back in the day. Also present (and pictured) at the Festival was Dale (Pee Wee) Schwamborn, who participated in many of Wally’s caravans as a young man. And if you blink during the film you’ll miss him, but our grandboy, Jack, is there! Fingers crossed a streaming network may be the outlet for this soon! We said farewell for several months to the stunningly beautiful Pacific Ocean (note my wind-blown hair) and started our journey east, off into unchartered territory for us in our Airstream.
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