Hi, From Christchurch in New Zealand

[mattbrown]

Hi, I have been using this great site for a couple of years whilst I dreamt of building a TD. I have now joined the forum and thought it would be good to share my experiences. Well things have progressed from dream to bugger, I am gonna build one. I purchased plans for the modernaire style TD from the internet, bought some lengths of 50mm square tube, learned to weld in one afternoon, got weld sunburn the same afternoon and now am pleased to have a rolling chassis resplendant with leaf springs and super shiny alloys. The TD will be 2.7m long or a 9 footer to our old fahioned cousins Walls are next - woohoo.

[Muggnz]

welcome welcome

[doris s.]

Nice! I wanna vist New Zealand one day! I hear it's beautiful and has a diverse landscape! Sounds like great teardrop camping to me!

Doris

[mattbrown]

welcome welcome

Hi again and thanks for the wekcome. You finished your tear yet?

[mattbrown]

Hi Doris. Yes NZ has plenty of quite stunning scenery, especially the South Island. I have just put a pic in my album of a lake I was fly fishing last weekend. This was taken at 0700 and is an untouched photo. The area is called Canterbury High Country and about 1.5 hrs from where I live. It will be covered in snow in a couple of months! Thuis is the scenry I want my TD for - so that I can wake up to this.. yeehaa. cheers Matt

[Steve_Cox]

Hi Matt

Wouldn't mind waking up in a tear drop to that view myself. Wow!

[hiker chick]

Welcome! Will look foward to accounts and pics of your NZ teardrop travels.

I spent a month on the North and South Islands and a couple days in Christchurch. NZ is a spectacular country, we had a terrific time and came away feeling it is the only country we'd leave the US for.

South Island scenery is breathtaking.