Hello Teardroppers! It has been far too long to check in with all of you. We have been having too much fun camping with our trailer since 2013, can you believe it, this will be our 7th year. After camping with our little Travelear for so many years, we have made only a couple of additions and no real changes. The trailer performs exactly as designed.
The first addition was a new side table attached to the trailer. My good friend Sam Howe did most of the work with me holding stuff. Then with another pal Jim Cooney, Lisa finally got her icebox installed in the galley.
The Icebox was included in the original design for the galley. However, I lacked the skills and tools to make it. I finally found Jim with his full shop and fabricated the little devil out of sheet metal. It took quite a few hours and several re-dos but it was worth it. Last year we camped in about 85 degree weather dropping to the mid 60’s at night. The Icebox cooled things down to about 36 degrees during the night and only got up to around 42 degrees during the day. The concept seems to work pretty well.


Here is how our gallery looks today with the installed Icebox.

It pulls out to keep as much cold air in as possible. This shows how far it opens.

These are very strong drawer slides that auto close when you push the drawer back in.

Here you can see the ice tray in place and that the drawer pulls out plenty far.

Looking down into the drawer. We can actually store more food in here than our large ice chest.


The ice tray must be angled to lift out if the drawer is in place.

The ice tray holds 3 – 10 LB blocks of ice and is secured by a screw when we’re on the road.


Here’s the drawer with its double magnetic seals. I ordered these to fit online.

The ice tray showing the interior grill for drainage.

This shows the construction of the upper area of the icebox.

The lower drawer slide installation.

To keep the drawer from moving while traveling, we installed some serious Velcro strips.

Here it is all ready to travel.
On to the Side Table…
All the Best,
Dave