My Teardrop Trailer Shower
Many teardroppers feel that a camp shower is a luxury, but I think it's a necessity. After hiking or kayaking all day and then hanging around the smoky campfire, having a shower before bed helps me...
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An amazing view during the Jefferson State TearJerkers’ Mystic Mt. Shasta Gathering at Panther Meadows. The gathering took place at 10,000 feet elevation on the slopes of Mount Shasta in northern...
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The separation between your teardrop trailer bed and the outdoors is a very fine line. Sometimes it's nice to have a comfortable transition area into the elements from the warmth of your bed—this can...
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The Sunflower hooked up to power at a campground near Shasta Lake, California. It's rare that we hook up to campground power, but we always carry a 25 foot power cord and a 50 amp male to 30 amp female...
View ArticleBurning Man Teardrop Camp Setup
The Sunflower is heading out to Burning Man this week for her 6th year out on the Playa. There will be several teardrop campers out there this year including my friends from Trailer Trash Camp. I wrote...
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The Ghana Think Tank teardrop trailer at the Queens Museum in New York. From the Ghana Think Tank website:The Ghana ThinkTank in Corona involves a custom-built teardrop trailer designed to journey into...
View ArticleWhat do you keep under the teardrop bed?
I've met teardroppers and non-teardroppers who are suprised that we have so much storage space under the teardrop bed. Our bed is set up with two twin mattresses that lift up and there are two plywood...
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The Sunflower in line to get into Burning Man 2014. Timing is everything when you arrive at the event. We tend to go later in the week after most of the crowd has gone in and try to get there early in...
View ArticleTeardrop Camping: Plan It or Wing It?
Tiny Yellow Teardrop reader ML recently asked this question:"I'd be interested in discussing how much itinerary planning goes into your travels with your teardrop. I'd like to venture out with no...
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The Sunflower parked next to a rather large semi trailer truck at a rest stop on Highway 80 in California. Although we tow a much smaller load, a rest stop is a nice chance to have plenty of parking,...
View ArticleThe Sunflower and Stargazers Hike Mount Whitney
Well...the Sunflower and the Stargazers teardrops stayed comfortably in the Lone Pine Campground while my husband, our Stargazers friends and I hiked up Mount Whitney. All summer we've been training to...
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Taking a nap in the Sunflower at the Lone Pine Campground the day after hiking Mount Whitney.I usually like to read or take a nap in the teardrop with the doors open for a fresh breeze. In fact, if we...
View ArticleWhat clothes do you carry in the teardrop?
I carry a full set of clothes in my side of the teardrop trailer cupboards at all times. Having all my clothes in the teardrop makes packing much easier, and all I have to do is grab my hiking boots...
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A mule deer took a quick peak in our teardrop trailer door before taking off into the sagebrush at the Lower Twin Lakes Campground near Bridgeport, California.
View ArticleTeardrop Camping with Big Dogs
I first met Ernie and Joy and their two large, black Labrador Retrievers, Rudy and Holly, at the International Redwood Gathering. They are fairly new teardroppers, but all four of them already look...
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This is a photo of Stacie Tamaki's Glampette sitting beneath the redwoods at the International Redwood Gathering. We just missed each other at that gathering, and in fact, she took over my spot at the...
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While the website, Hipcamp, is currently only available for the state of California, they plan on expanding to 20 new states by next summer—just in time for teardrop camping. Hipcamp is a new website...
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This summer went way too fast. It's already starting to get cold where we live, but we're hoping to do one last teardrop camp before the snow starts. In the meantime, I will dream of camping near a...
View ArticleFeatured Teardrop: O-rama! Teardrop Trailers
While I was at the International Redwood Gathering in northern California, I noticed a custom made teardrop owned by a woman named Tracy. She was a tall person and I noticed that her trailer fit her...
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I received this photo from Gary Hardy, a teardrop trailer owner in Australia. During an outing to the Little Desert National Park in Victoria, Gary's wife nearly had to share the camp shower with a...
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