Trailer Museum

Vacation is over and I'm back home at the trailer.  Now what do I blog about?  I guess I'll start with a few photos from the Okamoto Trailer Museum.  Hope you're laughing.  Back in the mid-seventies I went on my first vacation to Mexico with a geologist friend of mine from Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).  I was lucky to work there for about 3 1/2 years while I was in college.  Anyway, Elsa and I went to Mexico City, Oaxaca, Taxco, the jungles of Yucatan and Isla Mujeres over a 3 week period.  We lived for under $10 a day and had a fantastic trip.  It really gave me a taste for travel and I've been hooked ever since.  I'll have to blog about that trip someday.  We had gone in Nov/Dec so I purchased several tin milagros (miracles) for about 5 cents a piece and sent them with my Christmas cards that year.  Now you find these same or similar tin decorations for $2-15.00 a piece stateside.  You'll see a few of them on my walls at home.  

I also have a collection of handmade dolls on my living room wall above a velvety cush red sofa with a spiral design.  You might recognize some of Teesha Moore's dolls on the wall.  Anyway, my home is a mish-mosh of eclectic art everywhere as well as all the clutter of a business gone awry.  Collecting stuff has been a fun part of my life over the years.  Having had two mall stores didn't help.  Even though they were art rubber stamp stores, I had an odd mix of unusual gifts, art books, cards and ephemera to boot.  Anything that didn't sell by the time I closed the stores somehow made it to my hovel as you can see in the photos.  And you haven't seen nothin' yet!  Thank goodness the blog only allows a few pics because I have so much more to show you.