Friday Teardrop Photo

The Sunflower parked at the Golden Eagle Campground near Fort Carson military base in Colorado Springs. During my last night there a roaring thunderstorm came into the area and I took shelter with my new friends in the Casita travel trailer next door to me. We spend the storm chatting and drinking wine.

Sometimes us tiny teardroppers have to make friends who are a little bit larger.

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A photo from 1926 of the original tiny house on wheels.

Friday Teardrop Photo

This 2011 Little Guy Sport was recently purchased by Tricia and her husband. The trailer's maiden voyage was at the Thunder Ridge Campground near Woodland Park, CO. The couple strung LED lights in their teardrop galley with removable adhesive that doesn't seem to attract bugs. The side tent was also a trial run. The couple plan to take their new-to-them trailer up to Yellowstone National Park this summer.

Friday Teardrop Photo

The beloved teardrop trailer shown in the Geico Caveman commercials is owned by Jim Logiudice, who provides props for television shows and movies. Jim purchased the trailer off Craigslist and vinyl wrapped it to match the red URAL motorcycle.

Photo by Jim Logiudice

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Even pooches deserve a little teardrop camping time. Shot at the Casini Ranch Family Campground in Duncan Hills, California.

Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group

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This photo is courtesy of Larry Shank and the Shank Family (profiled on Petrolicious), and Larry's father's red Willys CJ-2A Jeep and Kenskill teardrop trailer. The adventures of this family and their Jeep/trailer combo will have you wanting to head out onto the same dirt roads.

Here's to a great 2016 and plenty of adventure!

Camp for Free with Hipcamp

The Tiny Yellow Teardrop has covered Hipcamp before and if you spent the summer exploring off the beaten path, the online camping and travel guide wants you to benefit. Hipcamp is offering a summer of free camping (and other prizes) for the winner of their Endless Summer photo contest.

All you need to do is choose one of your definitive summer camping photos (teardrops included), a thoughtful caption, upload it to your Hipcamp profile and link it to a national park or campground on Hipcamp. The contest is open until 10/26/15 and the winner will receive four weekends of free camping on Hipcamp Land Share listings, a two or four person tent from The North Face and a Goal Zero Lighthouse 250. Second place will win $200 Hipcamp credit, a two person tent from The North Face and a Goal Zero Lighthouse 250.

Those tents might help in case you need a guest house for your teardrop trailer. :-)


Photo by Hipcamp/Evan Kubena

Friday Teardrop Photo

This delightful photo of a family hitting the road with their BMW Isetta and a very small teardrop trailer comes from the Vintage Travel Trailers Facebook page.  Be careful: you might end up spending hours looking through all the wonderful photos of vintage campers and trailers.

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I saw this wonderful photo on teardropper Gary Neal's Facebook page. There's something really special about a teardrop galley at night.

Photo by Jim Longnecker of Oregon

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The Sunflower at Clearlake, California. I loved the sign and the beautiful pull over location. When we are towing the teardrop, we tend to go slower than surrounding traffic, and we do pull over to permit passing frequently. It's also good teardrop karma.

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The wonderful site, Camping in the Old Days, had a photo of this modified popup teardrop trailer along with its lovely owner and her dog. Check out more vintage camping photos at Camping in the Old Days.

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This photo from California State Parks is not a teardrop trailer, but these folks really know how to camp in style. The photo was shot in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the oldest state park in California.

Friday Teardrop Photo

The weather has been so warm, we were able to take a February camping trip into central Nevada. We stopped at the Sand Mountain Recreation Area off of Highway 50 and took a few photos. This place is usually packed with toy haulers and other large RVs—bringing various dirt bikes and quads to ride the massive sand dunes.

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From one of my new favorite sites comes this photo of a homemade teardrop trailer...for a dog. Maggie's owner wanted to keep his dog safe while traveling around the country with her and his motorcycle. Maggie has her own 2.5x4 foot trailer that weighs 225 lbs. The little trailer, cut with a CNC router, has rigid foam insulation, interior padding, a front porthole and even a little step for Maggie to jump into her trailer.

Photo and story by Do It Yourself RV

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This is my closet in the Sunflower—after a few days of camping. I'm not always as diligent as I should be about keeping my clothes organized in a closet this size. After just a day or two, I have to pull everything out, fold and re-organize. It's a challenge working with a small space and you've just seen my dirty laundry—literally.

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The "Barndrop" is a fun, barn shaped teardrop built by andreuther of the TNTTT forum. As an owner of my own red barn (non-teardrop shaped), I appreciate the beauty and humor of this unique trailer.

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 The Sunflower in the parking lot of the Eastern Sierra Interagency Visitor Center in Lone Pine, CA. You can see Mount Whitney in the distance.

What's interesting about this location is that the visitor center and ranger station is on the corner of U.S. 395 and State Route 136. Highway 395 leads to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S., and you can take 136 (then 190) into Death Valley—the lowest point in the U.S.

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 Gary Hardy, from Australia, sent in another photo of his teardrop parked in an interesting evolution of camping trailers. Gary was traveling on the Calder highway near Bendigo in Victoria.

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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.

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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 are camping in a warm (and safe) place—we'll sometimes sleep with the doors open all night.