Did We Buy a New Airstream? Living the Airstream Dream, New 30FB Flying Cloud Office Twin Bed

[Music] [Music] [Music] Hi everybody. I'm Randy. And I'm Diane. And we're Zephr Travels. And today we're at Airstream of Virginia. And we're looking at a new 25 um Airstream 30foot office. This is a model that we've been very interested in. And if you remember our video we had a few months back where we talked about should we um upgrade our Airstream or buy a new one. Well, this is the looking at the buying a new one. and they one of the few dealers that actually has the model we would want in stock and we're going to take a walk through it with you guys and see if it really fits our needs or not. So, let's get going. Yeah. Come on. Hey, to all our friends over on Zephr Travels, we want to let you know that we've started a second YouTube channel called Zephr's Garage, and we'd love to have you guys check us out. We are going to do car related stories about some of our vehicles that we have right here, plus other people's vehicles. Um, we're going to do some car modifications and a whole bunch of different things. Stuff we haven't even figured out yet. But we'd love to have our Zephr Travels friends come over and check out Zephr's Garage. We're going to put a link up here and a link in the description so you can click on it and find it real easy. And please subscribe. We're looking forward to the Zephr Travels family to support this channel and get help us get it going really quickly. So, thanks a lot and we'll see you at Zephr's Garage. Okay, so we're coming inside and the first thing you want to notice is there is a space that you could put your shoes in or whatever you choose a storage space. There's also another little area here that not quite sure what you do with it, but you have your your hooks for your codes, a nice white board, some more hooks for your keys, and your control panel is here. It must have um Does it have a power on it? No. Oh, okay. So, that's nice. We don't really care about Apollo. This is a little bit different than ours in that it has the bedroom in the front. So, this is twin beds, which is one of the reasons we are looking at this model cuz it has twin beds. Mhm. And there's another reason. We'll get to that. So, this is pretty close to what we have, right? Layout, everything. And like Randy said, this is what we prefer. It does have the cabinets on each side. And these are a little bit nicer in that you could remove the shelves and use it as, you know, like a shirt closet and it's whatever. But it does have the shelves, which I like. And that and that's on both sides. One thing I noticed, it has four AC vents in the bedroom where we currently only have two, right? And it does have uh two um air or air conditioning units. This is changed. Instead of the accordion doors, you do have your drape for privacy, which I like much better. Then if you come out to the living area, you do have this long sofa, which I believe converts to a double bed or yeah, some type of bed, but it folds out. Yeah, I'm not quite sure how. We'd have to check that out. And then you have this like what do they call this? It's a U-shaped dinette. U-shaped dinette, which I like. And you can sit here. The TV is right there. And then you actually could lounge here and watch TV. So, that's kind of comfortable. That's different. Yeah. You almost I think you almost need like one of these cushions. their velcro to go right there. Right. Right. That wouldn't make a difference. Make it a little more comfortable. Yeah. We're already remodeling. We haven't even decided to buy it yet and we're remodeling it. Right. But this is nice. It's uh very nice. Open. Dian's OCD is kicking in. Yeah. Um, but it has the Vista View um, windows above, so it gets a lot of light in here. There's also a skylight up here. It only has one skylight though, as opposed to two that are in our current airstream, but it does have two Max fans, right? And this is different. I like the It's the square shape of the um, sink. Nice countertop. This particular model has your convection oven. Yeah. And then we only have about that much countertop. So, Right. And then this has the flush cover for your stove. Again, it's a threeburner gas stove. A lot more drawers. They have Yeah. Yeah. So, you have one, two, three more drawers. Well, this is a compartment, right? Yeah. What they you have a drawer and then you have this nice big compartment under your sink. And then here another drawer and another pull down compartment. And these are nice for putting like um bottles of cooking oil and and small things like that. That's what we use them for and this one. So that's nice. Another change for us is the refrigerator is strictly electric. This is in the newer models. Yeah, it's it's this is a um ours is a propane or uh electric propane and yeah, electric, but it it's an absorption refrigerator and they don't work as well. This is a compressor refrigerator and because of that, it's much larger. It's deeper. Mhm. And this one happens to be taller than ours, too. So, you got more space that way. They're more efficient. Um now, but back in the day they weren't, but now they're much more efficient. That's why they're using them instead of the others. So, this is actually to me a plus. Yeah. Then you do have another large wardrobe closet. Yep. Let's Yeah. Okay. Do the drawers and stuff, but we'll do the bathroom next. And you have more drawers for storage, which is nice. Again, you have your curtain for privacy. And on this side, again, got a lot of nice drawers and another closet that could be a pantry or I think we would use it for linens because it's close to the bathroom, right? But then you have these drawers here which could be anything. I mean, kitchen, bathroom supplies, whatever you want. Then if we move into the bathroom, you do have a like a half mirror. Yeah. If you come into the bathroom, you have a window. Y. And then you do have a makeup mirror, a towel rack, a good size cabinet. Yep. With your toilet paper roll inside there. Inside. Your controls are built right onto the um cabinet here. This is your hot water, and it's an on demand hot water heater, which is going to be a little different for us. Lights. And the lights are a little nicer. Is the toilet different? The toilet is different. It's a merator toilet. So, because it's not directly over the black tank, it has to pump it to the tank. And so, there's a pump in there that grinds up everything, which is good, but it's also you have to be very careful that nothing get goes in there except what's supposed to go in there, so to speak. And then it's a pretty good size shower. And and it has uh you do have the seat and shelves. Oh yeah, you do have shelves and a towel bar in the shower. In the shower. A little different. And your door. Yep. So yeah, this is nice. Wonder why you don't put a towel bar here. But again, we're remodeling it already. Yeah. Why would you I don't know why you get a towel bar in the shower. What do I know? And then this is the other big reason why we're interested in this model. Well, it's the main reason really. Yeah. The office. The office. And so this is for because I spend a lot of time when we travel creating these videos. I need a place to work. And currently it's our dinette which means the computer gets on the dinette, off the dinette, on the all the time moving around here. We could get some place and set it up and just work when I need to. So you do have another cabinet which you could use for your office supplies or it does have a rack. You could use it as a wardrobe. A nice This is a file cabinet essentially. So you can put folders in here or socks or what? socks if you choose to use it for clothing. Yep. I close this. We have a desk extension here, which is nice. Another drawer. Yep. Large drawer. And I believe this this slides out and it helps to make the bed. Oh, okay. Right. There's you can use the cushions to convert it to a single bed, right? So, they have those cushions there and then there's a piece that folds out across here and this will make a a bed for a single person. Otherwise, it would just be a cushion seat, right? And then it does have the overhead locker. Yep. A nice thing about these newer Airstreams, it has the soft closed cabinets, which I love. Yep. Wish it was on the drawers and everything, but yeah. So, the desk area. I'll bring it around here. So, you you have a window, you have the desk, you've got spots here to bring power up through the desk. You also have right here two outlets and some and some USB and they're on the inverter. You have over here a spot to bring in a television, antenna, and um HDMI. Some storage here. And I believe this is a more USB plugs. So, lot of utility right here. Another Vista View um cabinet. And then when these aren't a bed, I'm going to move this to the side. That becomes a seating area. And you have some storage right here, which is nice. [Music] Okay. So, from a storage standpoint, it's different. And I think we lose some of the storage that we're used to. I think we're going to lose a little bit underneath the dinette that we have. We gain some different storage spaces in different areas. Right. Right. Um we still have pretty much the same storage here. The out side storage is similar except the front storage compartment is a little smaller and it's also behind the tank. So that's a little bit more difficult to get at considering we tend to store our consumables in there, papers and stuff. We might have to look at how we do that. Mhm. But there's a lot more drawers in the kitchen for that. Right. So, yeah. And more I think more cabinets as well, right? So, at this point, we are not committed to this. No. Um, we haven't bought it or and probably won't buy it today. We we just stopped to look because Randy found out they did have the model at this Virginia Airstream and not a lot of dealers have this model. No, not a lot of dealers, but we were on our way north and we figured we'd had a little bit of time so we decided to swing in and take a look. Right. So, we're going to pose a question to you guys. You know what Airstream we have? If you're a regular follower, um should we upgrade to this one? Is it now a good time to buy an a new Airstream or should we hold off because the econom economy is not that great and we're should hang on to our money and wait for another day and just do a little bit of remodeling on our current model. Right. So actually it's the same question but in this time we're showing you the other side of it. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please give it a big thumbs up and subscribe to our channel Zer Travels and hit that bell for notifications. We post new videos on a weekly basis. Love to have you guys follow along on our adventures and hey, find out if we buy a new airirstream or not. Right. So, until next time, we may or may not have a new airirstream and uh we'll follow everybody down the road. All right. See you guys. Bye. Back.