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One Booking, Multiple Sites
One of the great things about a trailer is that it’s fairly quick & easy to pick-up and move camp. This is particularly true with a small and simple teardrop trailer, so why not try out a little-known feature of the OntarioParks and ParksCanada booking platforms which allows splitting your visit amongst multiple camp sites?! …
Pukaskwa National Park
Imagine falling asleep in your cozy teardrop camper to the sound of ocean surf crashing ashore. Come morning, a brief walk coffee-in-hand to a beach strewn with large driftwood surrounded both sides by stark dramatic rocky promontories. It all looks and feels a bit like the west coast of Vancouver Island. But you’re in Ontario. …
Dual but Differing Solar Panels: Yes You Can
If you have a solar panel on the roof of your teardrop camper plus a portable panel you move around, why not use them both to simultaneously charge the batteries? Turns out there’s a few reasons why it’s not so straightforward, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Here’s how I made it work. …
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Looking Back, and Ahead, for this Blog
Here near Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, we’re solidly into mid-winter. Temperatures are cold but, now a month out from Solstice, strength can be detected returning to the sun’s rays. It’s the time when Teardropping reappears on my radar, so here’s my annual look at last year’s top topics plus a preview of some coming soon! …
Tiny Trailer, Big Road Trip
My Big Trip in a Tiny Trailer as I call it has become an annual autumn outing for me, each one getting longer in distance and/or duration. This year, the fourth, was 26 days and 2800km—about the same distance as last year though almost a week longer, the difference being that I stayed two or …
Another great season ends: Bedtime for Teardrop
My little camper now winters in a large shed which, for a trailer of mainly wood construction on metal chassis, is a big improvement over being left outside covered by tarps. This year I got it up the ramp using this winch system I devised… with barely 6” door clearance on either side, backing it …
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Staying Cool When Summer’s Hot
Does the notion of camping in tiny teardrop trailer during the height of hot-humid summer evoke images of meat slow-cooking in a tin crock pot? It didn’t have much appeal to me, but I’d bought tickets to a late-July music festival so strategized how to stay cool... or if not “cool” at least avoid feeling …
Best Camping Coffeemaker!?
I’ve blogged about the joys of a grinder and thermal mugs, and even about adding a bedside shelf for morning coffee. What else could there possibly be? To coffee geeks that’s a rhetorical question 😉 or one to answer at great length and detail. But I’ll cut to the chase and introduce my new French …
Better Brake Lights
After writing the Be Seen blog post back in February, I found myself revisiting the notion of adding a higher level brake light to my Teardrop camper but once again stuck with the limitation of 4-pin wiring which is standard on small trailers. Thanks to a chance find at the local automotive store I was …
Pig Pen Chute
Ontario Highway 129 links Hwy 17, at Thessalon on Lake Huron’s North Shore, with Hwy 101 just south of Chapleau. The top and bottom quarter of this isolated 200-ish km road is not overly scenic but in between is a wonder of twists & turns, rivers & lakes, rocks & trees, including this awesome spot …
Teardrop Trailer Travels 