The Pewter Palace- Our Vintage Avion Travel Trailer

08/24/2025

Why we love our 32S Avion with the wrap around rear bedroom windows!

08/24/2025

Rhode Island has finally made our official travel map!

Tiny lil RI danced around us for over 20 years of RVing...but we finally got a chance to enjoy a 4-night stay here in RI. Even heard some yipping foxes in the wee morning hours this morning. Weather has been perfect with mid 50s at night (perfect for sleeping) and mid to high 70s during the day.

This state park campground was just over the RI border in Chepatchet, and a wooded delight (though Starlink is not happy), with mostly tent campers, dry campsites but not a problem for us. Beautiful Bowdish Lake (reservoir). They do charge double fee for out of state campers (we paid $36 per night for a dry campsite) but that's OK, we understand and advocated for NYS to do the same at their state campgrounds years ago. But wow camping in New England is way more expensive (for what you get) than we have been used to the last 2 years out west of the big Mississippi River.

We start our slow trek southward now, heading to NJ tomorrow. Then PA before dipping below the Mason Dixon line in late Sept.

08/18/2025

08/16/2025

Ok, one reason we LOVE to travel in our RV home affords us our own kitchen, bathroom and most importantly the same comfy beds and pillows to curl into every night.....not things used by 100s if not 1000s of people before us.

BUT this IS a place I would love to stay in!

08/13/2025

Attention to those who have booked to attend the Avion AVION Travelcade National Rally in September 2026 in Pigeon Forge, TN. We currently have 35 registered Avion's of all models, years and sizes---even a C-10 and TWO "Whales"!!!

We have just added 10 more sites due to amazing demand to attend. This will be the absolute final # of sites to be added to keep us all together and space considerations of the pavilion, etc.

IMPORTANT REMINDER!
IF YOU ARE REGISTERED AND MUST CANCEL your rally registration and campsite you MUST notify US FIRST! Do NOT cancel your campsite reservation directly with the campground! (if you do this, they will open it up to any NON Avion retail customer immediately)
REACH OUT directly to Kevin and Luise via an email to [email protected] immediately if you need to cancel. DO NOT contact the campground directly.
We understand booking out this far, a few cancellations are inevitable. We will work directly with our group reservation staff person @ the campground to do your cancellation and refunds as appropriate per policy of the campground.
This way we retain your campsite # into our Avion rally group and can re-assign it to someone in the Avion Rally group who may be on a waiting list or wishes to move their site.
THANK YOU for your compliance on this!

08/13/2025

We had a (hot, but) great visit to VT last week and it was wonderful having our grandsons camping with us! (That mini golf course never got such a workout!)

Lone Pine Campground was a nice place to camp and very well maintained. We had hoped for more kids planned activities during the week but the two large nice swimming pools, mini golf, playgrounds and bike riding kept the boys busy enough. They did have bingo and tie dying on the weekend and the flashlight candy bar hunt Saturday night netted a big haul by both the boys and big 😃!

08/03/2025

Hello Vermont!! Good to be back on very familiar roads!

The NY/VT border has a lovely VT Welcome center (coming from the Lake George area) with very friendly staff. We also got talking to a fellow RVer (not from the area) who we provided local info and RV tips for tourist sites like Shelburne Museum when she asked us for advice.

She thanked us by coming back into the center with a lovely homemade grain bread from her freezer! How lovely and nice is that!

Life on the road is a wonderful daily experience ( oh trust us...there are also THOSE days when we wish we had not gotten up!) Lol but they truly are very few and far between.

If coming on RT 4 in central western VT this rest area is nice. It is also unofficially ok to boondock a night.

They always have such beautiful flowers too!! Enjoy the pics!

07/31/2025

Wow!! Campsite costs are soaring! Here are some of our tips from an article on our blog.

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07/26/2025

While in Elkhart, IN for the Silver Avion Fellowship Rally last week we did another visit to the very nearby RV Hall of Fame. We joined as Lifetime Members in 2017 to support their mission.

They had moved around and changed some exhibits since we were there last in 2021and we love when museums do this! Gives repeat visitors new things to look at!

Among those new things (and had been a longstanding complain of ours..) was a small but mighty collection in a showcase of Avion Travelcade Memorabilia. Mind you, they still need to have a vintage Avion trailer in their collection but at least this is a small start.

I also have included other photos from around the museum. If in the Elkhart area this is a must stop!! Handmade "RV's" from 1913 on up! A decent gift shop and research library too where we found some new Avion material too.

07/25/2025

Heading from OH into NY today ! Our first time back in our former home state in nearly 2.5 years! Wow where has time gone! Photo of sunrise this AM as we are up early to get rolling!

(Not loving this humidity folks!)

Looking forward to reconnecting with our NY friends next week while we are in Lake George!

07/24/2025

The Avion AVION Travelcade National Rally being held on September 15-18, 2026 is filling up fast!

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We have Avions coming from CA to MA and FL to MI and everywhere in between! It has truly become a NATIONAL rally with 15 states represented so far!

Check out this Presentation designed by Luisa.