Oregon: McMinnville – Vintages RV Park

Before we finally took to leap into living full time in a motorhome we had been interested in reducing the size of our footprint and tiny living. We watched every programme on TV about motorhomes and tiny houses – to the point of being obsessive about it! Some would say! Anyway, one such programme we got hooked on was called “Flippin RVs” a reality TV show based around a company called Flyte Camp, based out of our home town, Bend, Oregon. The plot of the story surrounds the owners of Flyte Camp, Justin and Anna Scribner, and their small team of skilled craftsmen taking wrecked and tired vintage travel trailers and restoring them. We were fascinated by the amazing skills of the team in rebuilding essentially junk trailers to their former prime – and in many cases to being better than new.

Anyway, one of the recurring plot lines was the projects that Flyte Camp undertook for a trailer park called Vintages based outside the small Oregon town of McMinnville. Vintages is a traditional trailer park, but it has acquired several – well actually 35 vintage trailers – that it lets out on a nightly basis. It is effectively a trailer hotel. These trailers are all restored and are quite luxurious inside and include such essentials as heating and air conditioning.