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!

Days are getting longer, faster

Speaking of Solstice, before we get to Teardropping topics past+pending, here’s an interesting aside. Seeing as both my off-grid solar system and my personal soul system are affected by day length, one dark early January day several years ago I decided to look up and chart sunrise-sunset times—I guess to give me some hope the days were getting longer even if it didn’t feel like it.

A couple surprise learnings came from this:

• While Winter Solstice (which occurs Dec 21 or 22) is indeed the shortest “day” of the year, sunrise in fact continues to get a few minutes later over the two weeks following Solstice. And, conversely, the earliest sunset actually occurs a couple weeks before Solstice.
• Looking at the graph, it can be clearly seen that day-length does not change in a strictly linear way. During the 3-4 weeks on either side of Solstice (of course, both Winter & Summer) week-to-week change in day-length is very slight and then begins to accelerate and hold a fairly linear increase once you get past the one month mark.

So if… in those weeks immediately following Christmas… it seems like the days just aren’t getting any longer, it’s because they barely are! But the good news is by late January we’re entering into the period where day-length increases more rapidly. The times plotted on this graph are for my location, around 44º N latitude. Times in your location will be different, of course, but the general shape/trend of the graph should still apply generally for most mid-latitude locations.

What did readers want to know about most?

With that sunrise-sunset factoid shared (keep it in your pocket for next time you’re stuck for small talk haha), what were the Top Topics, the most-read posts of 2025 here on teardroptrailertravels.ca?

• Spoil Yourself: Teardrop Heater (1,029 views)
• Teardrop Trailer Shelter Selection (829 views)
• Teardrop Trailer Ventilation (646 views)
• A Very Flexible Teardrop Power System (529 views)
• C’mon Inside: Teardrop Trailer Bedroom (502 views)

Looking at the past 3 years as a whole, electrical, ventilation, shelters… and the heater… are the teardrop trailer topics visitors to this blog most wanted to learn about.

What countries were readers from?

No surprise, the majority if visitors to teardroptrailertravels.ca in 2025 were from the U.S. (9,441) and Canada (6,830). Once again, Australia (799) was third most common, followed by the U.K. (512) and New Zealand (225). Numbers are total visits, not a count of unique visitors.

This blog needs your help, but not your money

This is a old-school “blog”… like used to be common in the days prior to sponsored content, social media influencers, and the snap-chatty snippets of today’s online landscape. And that’s all I mean it to be—my goal is to share unbiased/noncommercial, quality information with enough detail to actually be useful.

I put time and effort into creating content just as a hobby and I fund the web hosting, as well as any gear you read about, out of my own pocket. For the time, effort and cost I would of course love to see it reach more teardrop camper owners (both current & prospective) so my ask is simply that if you use blogs, forums, chats, Facebook or other social media related to teardrops, would you please post a link to this one or share posts from this blog when it is relevant to do so. (At the bottom of each blog post are sharing buttons to make it easy!)

New Topics Coming Soon!

Content ideas come to me through the year, especially on Teardropping road trips, but I do a lot of the writing and blog posting during winter as a fun diversion from winter. Here’s what I plan to cover over the next couple months.

• Naming Your Teardrop Camper – I’ve thought about doing this since getting my little trailer but the right one didn’t emerge until last year.
• Using Dual Charge Controllers – I have a flexible solar panel on the roof of my teardrop trailer but use a portable panel for better generation when set-up in camp… I tried out a method to use both at once.
• Generator Use in Campgrounds – Okay, fair warning, this will be more of a rant than anything. But I think I may find sympathy with many teardroppers.
• Pukaskwa National Park – Some campers pass this one by due to the inability book a site combined with a 15km drive in, but it is a truly awesome spot like no other in Ontario.
• Staying on Multiple Sites within One Park – I routinely use the “split visit across different sites” feature on some park reservation web sites to create an interesting experience.
• SÉPAQ: Quebec’s National Parks – Last year I stayed for the first time at a SÉPAQ and was really impressed. I mentioned it briefly in Tiny Trailer, Big Road Trip but this stand-alone post will have more details.
• When too much of a good thing can be a bad thing – Speaking of the Big Trip in a Tiny Trailer, 4 weeks on the road is a great big adventure, but it can have health impacts too. I’ll share my own experience.

Thus may not be the order I’ll create the blog posts… and maybe some I won’t get to until spring, but I’ll be starting on the first one soon. Time to start dreaming of your teardrop camper adventures for 2026!!