Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Jake, it looks like we're going to get the band back together.
Here's another story. As we have long established, there is never a trip without a tragedy. Well, not exactly a tragedy, but stuff that turns your day upside down. Recently Sweet Jane and I traveled to Austin, Texas. We had a little business to do and we planned to visit old friends. We were in Lake Charles, La. having just finished a lunch of crab cakes, oysters and gumbo. A little bit of wine and some good cajun bread. I was filling up the tanks and I happened to look up at the front of the Avion. The entire window had blown out! I went inside and glass was strewn over everything. It must have broken somewhere on the road and I had been traveling at 75MPH blowing the interior to smithereens.
What to do? We got on the the net and found 3 glass companies in town. We asked one after the other if they would fix the window. "Nope. We don't do that kind of custom work". At the last place the special glass guy was just going to lunch. He said he'd see us in 30 minutes - I said we'd clean out the Avion while we were waiting.
We found a spot and took out every pillow, mattress, rug, blanket and threw them all in a pile. Then we went through the interior with a broom and swept out thousands of pieces of glass. Jane got up on the cabover and plucked glass out of the edges of the window.
The guy came back and said you got two choices: we can replace your window and the frame, but we'll have to order all the parts and it will be at least a week and maybe $1500 - $3000. Or, I can put some polycarbonate in there. We went for the polycarbonate.
That Cajun drilled holes, applied some sort of magic glue and we trash talked about Ole Miss (my college) and LSU (his college). I was careful not to actually tell the truth about LSU so as not to upset him while he was working. In about 30 minutes he had it finished.
We went through Gulf rain storms after that at 70 MPH. Not a drop. Its better than the original.
We took three hours from discovery of the disaster to getting back on the road. It cost $125.
Life in the Avion is good.
Here's another story. As we have long established, there is never a trip without a tragedy. Well, not exactly a tragedy, but stuff that turns your day upside down. Recently Sweet Jane and I traveled to Austin, Texas. We had a little business to do and we planned to visit old friends. We were in Lake Charles, La. having just finished a lunch of crab cakes, oysters and gumbo. A little bit of wine and some good cajun bread. I was filling up the tanks and I happened to look up at the front of the Avion. The entire window had blown out! I went inside and glass was strewn over everything. It must have broken somewhere on the road and I had been traveling at 75MPH blowing the interior to smithereens.
What to do? We got on the the net and found 3 glass companies in town. We asked one after the other if they would fix the window. "Nope. We don't do that kind of custom work". At the last place the special glass guy was just going to lunch. He said he'd see us in 30 minutes - I said we'd clean out the Avion while we were waiting.
We found a spot and took out every pillow, mattress, rug, blanket and threw them all in a pile. Then we went through the interior with a broom and swept out thousands of pieces of glass. Jane got up on the cabover and plucked glass out of the edges of the window.
The guy came back and said you got two choices: we can replace your window and the frame, but we'll have to order all the parts and it will be at least a week and maybe $1500 - $3000. Or, I can put some polycarbonate in there. We went for the polycarbonate.
That Cajun drilled holes, applied some sort of magic glue and we trash talked about Ole Miss (my college) and LSU (his college). I was careful not to actually tell the truth about LSU so as not to upset him while he was working. In about 30 minutes he had it finished.
We went through Gulf rain storms after that at 70 MPH. Not a drop. Its better than the original.
We took three hours from discovery of the disaster to getting back on the road. It cost $125.
Life in the Avion is good.
