Through these rallies one couple in particular have been amazing friends, close family if you will, constantly kidnapping my son for fun activities or just plain hanging out. If my kid goes missing, I always know where to find him. TxBum, a member here as well as on the pop up portal forum, and his wife are absolutely awesome people. Through conversations over the years they have found out my lifestyle of hunting and fishing to provide my family with meat for the year that is healthy, nutritious, and cheap. They also know that I hunt alone, giving myself time to calm down and get my mind back to reality for what little time I can after my time in the war. Being outdoors gives me inner peace, time to enjoy and get to experience things in life that others never even knew existed. TxBum had, unbeknownst to me, began planning his very own wonderful thing to do for me and my family. He and his wife began to build a teardrop camper, a "foamie hybrid" as I understand you folks call it. They spent their time, effort, hard earned money, building a teardrop trailer to give me for nothing in return. In TxBums words this was his own version of the Wounded Warrior Project, being a veteran himself he wanted to do something to give back to a fellow veteran. You see each year I hunt I either sleep on an air mattress in the back of my truck, or in a tent. This tends to get quite interesting when it's 20 degrees outside. TxBum wanted to do something about it and has given me what I've dubbed as my "mobile lodge", my son has laid claim naming the teardrop "the no daddy's allowed club" with my wife going along with my son's name lol!
With nothing more than a few hand shakes, many thank yous, and lots of hugs, TxBum watched his creation be towed off in a northern direction to find its forever home. She still needed a little work when I got home so I spent the next couple of weeks setting the rear hatch in place, making a main door seal, adding a front platform for gear, installing some rear stabilizers, doing a little painting, installing a battery, LED lights, air conditioner, a little wiring, finding a home for a spare tire and mounting bracket, installing a custom handle for the rear hatch, and lots of other little things that I'm sure you folks know all about.
An enormous thank you to TxBum and his wife, as we could never thank them enough for what they've done for me and my family. They will always be wonderful people, always welcome in my home, and will always remain great friends of ours. I'm gonna owe them a lot of deer meat! Lol!!!
Here are a few photos of the finished project, she's all ready to go hunting!
Edit: Apparently most of my pictures have been chopped in half, if you click the pics you will be forwarded to the entire photo
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