Many of you may know about Airstream Life. It is an independent magazine dedicated to fans of Airstream products and the lifestyle. It is published by Rich Luhr. Rich has been running this magazine, along with his family, AND fulltiming for 2 years! He has blogged about these subjects in the Tour of America blog.

Over the past 3-4 days the ‘Tour’ has been de-Toured. In reading their blog I saw they were in Yosemite last week so I offered our home (about 3 hr south) for a chance for them to courtesy park. They agreed but Rich was hoping to move on to a ‘bigger’ town to get some of his things done. I guess Visalia turned out to be big enough since they did stay a few nights with us. This was a little bit of downtime for them. Yes, they did get around to service their tow vehicle, do some laundry, run some technology errands and manage some business. Luckily they were able to do it all here.

We really enjoyed having them here and we were happy that the also enjoyed themselves. I think it was both relaxing and fruitful at the same time.

I remember reading their early blogs, and that of other fulltimers, and thinking how carefree it must be. My viewpoint has changed a bit now. Perhaps Rich and his family are a variation on the fulltimers since they ARE running a magazine as they travel. I was surprised to see how much time they devote to this aspect of their lives and how much, recently, they had to plan out what they were going to do. I have a new respect for what they go through in their travels.

The ‘Tour’ continued on today as they left Visalia. I still am not sure exactly where they will end up this evening but I will be looking for the blog entry to let all of us know.

If you ever get the opportunity to offer courtesy parking to the Luhr family, by all means do it. I know I will be sure to offer again (actually I already have) and it will not stop with just the Luhr’s. One way to learn about this world is to talk to others that have been traveling it.