Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and experience!
I stumbled across stomperxj's Sawtooth xl ( https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/ ... -xl.18142/ ) a few years back and have been drooling over teardrops and small trailers since. We currently own an Rpod and though my wife wants something larger I want something more efficient. It's the two of us and a soon-to-be teenager so we will probably end up with something a bit larger than the Rpod for all three of us, but I still want to build an off-roadish teardrop.
My current thought is to do a teardrop build as a father/son project, maybe a simple, more traditional wooden teardrop as a starter and use that for experience before building what I really want to build. I've been looking through builds over on expedition portal and have been collecting ideas.