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Once you see an Airstream easing down the road, you won’t forget it.

The sleek, aluminum recreational vehicle with rounded corners looks like a big silver bullet.

It could be pulled by a team of greyhounds, but all you’ll remember is the Airstream.

Just ask Steve and Elizabeth Carlson, of Kenosha, about the looks they get as they travel with their 31-foot 1975 Airstream.

Once when crossing into Canada, border officials instructed them to pull over for a random inspection.

The border guard admitted that she picked them to inspect because she wanted to see the inside of their camper.

“They really are an icon,” Steve said. “It’s kind of fun with the looks you get, and there are the nice conversations generated by having such a travel trailer that you wouldn’t get driving a different brand.”

The Carlsons and their three children have taken their Airstream all over the country. It’s been everywhere from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to Washington, D.C., including 17 trips to Florida and 20 into Canada.
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About a year ago Kampgrounds of America — KOA Kampgrounds — came up with this crazy idea about parking some “silver bullet” Airstream trailers at their facilities and letting campers rent them like hotel rooms.

With fabulous hotel rooms up and down the Strip, would people really want to camp in an Airstream trailer when in Las Vegas? KOA worked a deal with Airstream, considered the Cadillac of the travel-trailer, to place 10 of its 25-foot Flying Clouds on KOA’s 366-space RV park at Circus Circus.

“Even in Las Vegas, there are some people who just like to camp out,” Shane Ott, then president and chief operating officer of KOA, said at the time.

Ott considered Las Vegas to be a perfect startup location because 4 percent of KOA’s most loyal customers reside in the greater Los Angeles area and he thought Southern California campers would embrace the Circus Circus Airstreams.

“We look at this as the best of both worlds,” said Ott, who is now a campground liaison for the parent company of Airstream. “You can enjoy the benefits of camping. You can grill outside, right next to where you’re staying. You can meet up with people who share that lifestyle. There’s a well-stocked convenience store in the campground and, if you want, you can just walk over to the hotel for your entertainment.

“And then, when you’re done for the day, you’ve got very comfortable accommodations.”

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