Truly, the only thing totally messed up with our vintage Argosy trailer was the bathroom. It’s old plastic, dirty walls, new toilet, new but wrong sized tub, wooden boards that were not waterproofed…..and a homemade outside shower. This is our biggest renovation job with TarTar so this post is long. The above picture shows the […]
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Our Westie, Chay, trying out the new pillows in TarTar. Note the dirty paws. It’s tough being a white dog around Georgia Clay!
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It is hard to believe and even harder to imagine that we are leaving for our 1st camping trip with our 1977 Argosy in one week! We are still in the process of renovating the bathroom (major repairs needed!) and testing out all the water systems. We did decide to ditch the microwave in favor […]
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UPDATE: We found that the Peerless Brand from Walmart has serious defects and leaks A LOT. We tried many different types of Peerless faucets and they all leaked. We finally went with a goose neck faucet from Home Depot that cost over $80 to find something that would not leak. I could […]
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Our 1st trip in our renovated Argosy trailer, affectionately named TarTar, will be at the KOA in Wytheville, VA. http://koa.com/campgrounds/wytheville/ It’s about 6 hours away from home and another 3.5 hours from our final destination in Walkersville, WV. In Walkersville, WV, we are staying at the Stonewall Jackson Resort’s Briarcrest Campground. Then off to my […]
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After digging through a lot of old yellowed and tattered paperwork, I stumbled upon the original invoice for our 1977 Argosy trailer. How cool is that?!?! I find it hilarious that they charged $84.45 for bedspreads! That was back in the 70’s! I paid $25 each for a quilt from TJ Maxx in 2013! I […]
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Mike
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