Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

This will be a fun project to follow. I'm with your wife and not a fan of camping. How do you plan to fit all 3 if you in there?

thanks man! so, she really does like the outdoors and being in a camp - just not sleeping in tents. the inside of the teardrop will have a queen size 8-in thick memory foam mattress, will be insulated with 3/4 foam, and will be weather tight. that will do a whole lot to help, and she seems to agree which is what has spurred me on with this.

i plan to tent-camp alongside the teardrop from time to time because i dig tents quite a bit, and as for our kiddo Sam, I'm building a loft width-wise across our feet where he'll sleep. he's about 40" tall, so he's got another 20" to go until he's too tall to sleep in the loft. at that point i guess i'll be permanently in the tent so he can sleep with mom i can deal.

Awesome! Please build it out of straight carbon :p

Wife and I love camping too but the last two times we did we had ticks everywhere including the dogs and decided we were done. It's a lot more common up here than where you are.


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holy crap that would be awesome. ultimate bragging rights at the next big race tailgate.

i'm all too familiar with ticks i'm afraid. my mom suffered through Lymes Disease for about 10 years when i used to live in PA, and got it back in the 90's when they didn't know what it was or really how to treat it. i abhor those little bastards and check myself constantly when i'm out. i'm hoping the added weathertightness of the camper helps keep us out of some of that too. no dogs right now either. down here in the SE, the tick problem hasn't gotten out of hand nearly the way it has in the NE, particularly new england, so whenever we've been out over the past years, we just stay out of tall grass and check ourselves a lot.

we won't always be in the thick of the woods - the plan is that this will also give us a way to crash at any campgrounds we want during roadtrips or on the parkway, without having to pay so much for hotels and eating out.

i totally get why you guys had enough though...that's not a great way to make memories.