by The Teardrop Nanny » Mon May 16, 2011 8:24 pm
Dean (of the Redwoods) or FogCrawler, got hooked and excited about another creative adventure....these tiny travel trailers. Having been a computer widow for periods of time, I figured he was dabbling in it and would probably be on to something new in a couple of months seeing we had the boat building forum, glass people's forum, etc. that he was regularly visiting.
Anyway, he said he was gonna have a few of these folks come over and camp (what became known as the IRG Early Bird) at neighboring Swimmers Delight to see if they might want a gathering....and Dean did not have a teardrop at this time, but he had/has a WHOLE lot of ideas for building one.
Imagine my surprise when the next day after going down to camp with these TT people there were more than just a few, and so many people to meet that I knew nothing about, not even their names or faces cuz I didn't frequent the T&TTT forum way back then.
Well, after the IRG EB broke ground, these folks want to do it again ASAP and we had another gathering, Redwoods Revisited, soon after. It was in the late summer that I had met a variety of people and TD's and started going to look at the forum when Dean was logged on, which was often for him as he was totally hooked by now. So for about a year I just looked in about once or twice a month and got to see some of the pictures and read profiles about the people who we'd "hosted" at the Swimmers spot. There were some of the neatest/nicest people I have ever had the joy and pleasure to know.
After those gatherings, and before the first IRG I signed up myself as I usually just read the forum and never posted items when logged in under Dean's account. When I had that under my belt, and successfully pulled off two more events whilst still not having a trailer....I bought the Road Titan from that master craftsman, Doug H., who was one of our most enthusiastic and supportive (and still is) newly made friends.
Having the Pamplin Grove website opened up a whole new avenue for me as I could really meet people from the T&TTT forum and get to know them personally when they came to the event.