I bought one!

**SouthernBelle** · 09-30-2007, 02:33 PM

No, not a bike. The teardrop trailer I mentioned a week or so ago.

It's a homebuilt woody. I already started some modifications. My plans are to load the bikes in the back of the truck, hitch up the TD and go.

I'm going to be 'redecorating' inside and out. I have bought some cute little appliances already. Pulled the foam mattress out to air, though it doesn't smell or anything. I think in the interior picture you can see the striped storage boxes I've gotten.

Who wants to go with me next weekend?

**solobiker** · 09-30-2007, 03:08 PM

Wow, that is great! DH and I have been talking about getting one of those for a few years now. What do you think of it. Let me know how your first trip with it goes. Have fun

**KnottedYet** · 09-30-2007, 03:14 PM

AAAAAAH!!!! That's gorgeous!!

**Tri Girl** · 09-30-2007, 03:15 PM

TOO COOL!

We've toyed with the idea of getting one. We love to go camping and I'd enjoy that soooo much more than a tent (I'm getting too old to sleep on the ground).
Will you paint it, or leave it the beautiful wood tone? It's so pretty!!!

Love the stiped boxes. You'll have to take more pictures when you get all your cutesy touches on it!

**Trek420** · 09-30-2007, 03:19 PM

It's gorgeous!! Keep showing the work in progress pix.

**SouthernBelle** · 09-30-2007, 04:07 PM

No paint. I want to stain parts of it to show off some of the 'architecture'. Most likely the trim and the swoop in the curve. Then considering running a tiny line of color along the swoop.

It's quite campable now. If the weather is good for next weekend, I'm planning a test run.

**Aquila** · 09-30-2007, 04:09 PM

That's going to be danged hard to pull up hills on your bike!

No, seriously, that looks fun!

**Mr. Bloom** · 09-30-2007, 04:19 PM

Your tools are very organized...you wouldn't like visiting our garage!

**El Hombre** · 09-30-2007, 10:29 PM

MAJOR drool..

where did you get that? was it a kit or plans?

**SouthernBelle** · 10-01-2007, 06:58 AM

The man who built it, built it to go camping with his grandsons. The shelves that aren't shown in the pics were actually the bunks. Now they are the galley. El Hombre, Craigslist.

Mr. S, that pic is quite deceiving as to the organization of my garage! It doesn't show the no longer functional riding mower that I don't know what to do with.

**Zen** · 10-01-2007, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

It doesn't show the no longer functional riding mower that I don't know what to do with.

Maybe you can find a lawnmower repair shop that could use it for parts?

**indigoiis** · 10-01-2007, 10:26 AM

I have a 1963 Serro Scotty. I love it.
They are the best kind of campers.

**SouthernBelle** · 10-01-2007, 10:33 AM

Zen, I will probably try that, but it has a Tecumseh engine, which they all turn their noses up at. & justifiably so.

indi, those scotties are cute. You can actually stand up in them too! Is it original or restored or um just old.

**elk** · 10-01-2007, 01:33 PM

That is SWEEET!!!!

I always think having a trailer is a good idea so you can get outta town if you have to....

Floods, earthquakes pestilence, locusts....you know.

**SouthernBelle** · 10-02-2007, 05:00 AM

Originally Posted by elk

That is SWEEET!!!!

I always think having a trailer is a good idea so you can get outta town if you have to....

Floods, earthquakes pestilence, locusts....you know.

Actually I live downriver from the 2 worst dams in the United States. We actually have plans in place in this area for what to do if one of them gives. Fortunately, my house is on high ground.

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