I work at a Bed & Breakfast/Campround near the west entrance to Yosemite. One of our projects is collecting old Airstream trailers and turning them into little guest bungalows. I guess you could call it extreme recycling. In order to get these Airstreams for free we have had to go to extreme measures. We have hauled them out of sink holes, refurbished one that was used as a meth lab, saved one from a cattle ranch where it was used as a silo for manure. Then we gut them, strip out all of the old interior, and make them over. In the course of my work I have found a petrified raccoon in the ice box of one, I have found a toilet bowl full of dead mice in another and filled an entire dumpster with rat droppings. To do this we often have to wear full hazmat suits to protect against such things as Hanta virus and the chemicals from the former meth lab. So while Airstream restoration sounds neither dirty nor glamorous, it is in fact, disgusting work with a glamorous end result...a silver bullet trailer. It is all totally worth it when you see the benefits of your sweat equity...a gleaming shiny Airstream with a full reburbished interior. There is nothing more fulfilling than returning these icons of Americana to better than their original state. However, if you are afraid of rodents, especially dead ones, like I am...this job has some white knuckle moments. It certainly qualifies as a dirty job. I mean its got poop, dead rodents, the risk of chemical burns and viral infections and it doesn't get more American than an Airstream park near Yosemite. My co-worker thinks cleaning the campgrounds is hard...try cleaning the septic system on a 30 year old Airstream!

Shoveling out an out house is a much smellier experience than ripping up the airstreams. At least your dead things have had time to desicate and aren't fresh and juicy like a camper's recently passed turd.