Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Hi, Danny:

Thank you. Thought I'd have the wood varnished by now but nowhere near getting that done. That is an LL Bean "Waxed Cotton Continental Rucksack". I love waxed cotton/oil cloth.

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores ... -sub1&np=Y

Oh wow I didn't know it was from L.L. Bean, Thanks for the link Hiker Chick.

Looks very durable, I'm ordering one now

First camp trip of the year and I've now lost count of how many since buying the teardrop in fall '07. Each trip validating the decision to buy it.

The first night got down to 30 degrees. I don't have a heater but the teardrop is insulated and the temperature inside stayed above 40 degrees. We were in Shenandoah National Park.

Gratuitous Gidg pics




Patiently watching venison preparing to cross the road....

It's been a while since I posted on T&TTT, I just need to say in addition to a great camping rig and beautiful dog - you take awesome photos.

Thanks, BVE, you are very kind.

I took a couple hundred not-so-great pics, too, but didn't post them.

The secret is an 8-gig memory card.

Pics from last weekend. Shenandoah NP, again. Loft Mountain for a change, for one night. Otherwise, Big Meadows, where we were on such a humongous pull-through site I felt a little wasteful. Could've put 4 more Element-TD setups on the parking pad.

And more pics.... I just love this JetBoil stove for making coffee on the tongue box. Boils water in one minute. A few more minutes in a java press and the morning is set with great coffee. While I love some of the galleys in teardrops, especially the home-built, for my Element setup with the cooler in the back and the tailgate to lounge on (sitting on a closed cell pad folded over), I'd just as soon cook up front. Especially simple stuff like coffee.

With the JetBoil so great at boiling water and compact (the fuel canister and burner fit inside the cup) I'm planning on leaving the Coleman home next trip and taking a small Weber grill instead.

Just back from a week long trip to our usual campground (Big Meadows) in Shenandoah National Park. Didn't see any other teardrops, as usual. In between walking, reading, lounging and visiting, did a little puttering on the teardrop. Primarily that entailed installing a Cabela's cot organizer to the front wall. So handy to be able to reach in the door and grab things like lotion, flashlight, book, map...

Gorgeous drive home today - but extremely foggy and damp. Like the coziness of it but a bit treacherous on Skyline Drive where bears and deer are prone to run out in front of you.

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The first two pics are of a yearling we saw just before getting to the campground registration both. The bear cub was quite a surprise today. I'd pulled into a turnout on Skyline Drive to take photos of the fog-shrouded road. And then I noticed out of the corner of the my eye this cub directly across the road from me. We watched one another for several minutes (no Mama appeared) and then he disappeared into the forest (away from the road!)

Very cool pics! I like the idea of the cot organizer.

As always great pics. I am digging the cot organizer idea and may have to incorporate that. We were in Shenandoah NP right after Christmas but of course you couldn't camp there. It looked like a great place to camp. That was our first trip there and we were also checking out the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was terribly foggy up in the mountains in TN, NC, and VA. (just like your pics) We are heading out to the Great Smokey Mountains next weekend for my wife's 30th birthday to camp in the td, raft the Upper Ocoee, and let her take 1000's of pictures. (I think you guys have that hobby in common.)