Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

We just returned from a month of wandering the "Old West" 15 National Parks, travel through 15 different states. Every campground our teardrop was on "Open House" We found that campers were all good people, and very friendly. Before we bought our camper, we had never camped a day in our lives. You can follow our trip on a blog that I wrote in daily, so our family would know where we were at and what we had seen.

http://www.teardroptraveling.blogspot.com/

The guys driving the $$$$ RV, would look into ours and stated, "That's all you need". One guy told me it was $600 every time he filled up his gas tank.
You all take care and go camping.

edit: I added the missing "g". Mike...

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Lots of wonderful pics and looks like you had a great time. Brought back lots of good memories, as many of the places you visited are also ones we have been to. Thanks!

Betsey

Looks like a fun trip!

MariahSunset wrote:The guys driving the $$$$ RV, would look into ours and stated, "That's all you need".

Having "camped" in a $$$$ RV a couple of times, I'd agree.

David

Really enjoyed the photos and reading your posts. Thanks for sharing!


Nathan

...thanks for sharing your trip with us...fantastic .................................

Becky, great looking trip. Teardrops rule!!

Becky,

As Bill and Ted would say "An Excellent Adventure"
Now that wasn't exactly a three day weekend in the tear, are you ready to do it again, say... heading to the North East??

I have a trip I would really like to make from So. Calif to the Blueridge Mountains in Georgia, your blog is a real inspiration to make it a reality.

Thanks for sharing

Wow, what a trip.

I just looked at your blog. I envy you. I'd love to do a trip like that.

Nice photography, too. I'm a pro photographer, and I was impressed.

Now, I have even more temptation to buy lottery tickets and retire early.

CD

Thanks to all for the kind words. I hope all will be able to take that special trip that they long for. America is a great land, sometimes you need to get out just to be reminded of that.

looks like you all had a great trip by any chance did you come through missouri june 4 or 5th around 4:oo owensville mo. hwy. 19 and 28 seen a teardrop go by


neal b

Neal,
We didn't go through Missouri this year. Sorry it wasn't us.

I loved your blog and photos! And the key was the best story! hehe Not at the time, I'm sure. It didn't look like you took much stuff - chairs, tables, or canopy. The tear was just for night - no motels? Did you eat out most of the time?

I'm not sure my husband and I could go on that long a trip without killing each other, what a trip!

We took a trip to New England in 2007 and took way to much stuff. This trip we just had folding chairs, bottled water, rain jackets, laundry detentgent in the back of the Jeep. In a Camp-Inn you have area to put a weeks worth of clothes. We did laundry every week, washing clothes and sheets and blankets. The campgrounds we stayed at had wonderful laundries. We looked for Good Sam's campgrounds with bathrooms rated at 9 or better. We would starting looking for a campground about 2 pm and then we were on the road by 6 am, so no need to set up a great camp. We took a canopy in 2007 and never used it.
We had a quick setup, pull in, plug in the electric, throught out a small mat to put our shoes on, place our rabbitt ears or hook to cable tv and we were done. We watch others take hours to set up, but that was not needed for us as we are traveling every day. Twice we stayed in the same campground for 2 days.
I keep detailed records of our trips. In 2007 we spent avg $200 a day, that's gas, food, camp, and extra; like anything that didn't fall into the other three slots, souvenirs, museum thing non-eatable.
With gas a lot more I still shot for $200 a day. I was pleased we avg $168 a day. We ate from our cooler and kitchen most of the time. If we came across someplace cool to eat we did. If it rained or was too cold we ate at a restaurant. We have a Jeep that avg 15 miles per gal. and spent $2262 in gas, $815 for food, $873 for campgrounds, and $1101 for extras.
One great saving is my husband is over 62 so at the first national park he bought a "America the Beautiful" pass for $10 which is good for the rest of his life and we got in to all 15 national park on this pass.
I encouage all to take your teardrop and go and see this great land while you have your health and are able. You won't regrate it.

Wonderful blog!!! One of these days I'm gonna do a trip like that!!!