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Neanderthals who link the word trailer with the word trash are way out of date, and out of line.
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Ode to the Airstream

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Neanderthals who link the word trailer with the word trash are way out of date, and out of line.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Poets, artists, fashion designers, actors and just plain travel buffs have refurbished their Airstreams to resemble highly efficient and often opulent yachts.

Hollywood retailer and interior designer Barclay Butera in his customized airstream at the Sundance Film Festival.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Airstream Retro

There’s something contagious about just looking at the simple but elegant innards of the silvery, bullet-shaped trailers -- and imagining how it would feel to take off for points unknown.

In Yosemite, Tina and Michael Lambert dress the part outside their ’71 International.  (Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times)

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Ode to the Airstream

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