Teardrop Camper Trailers – a Low Cost, Efficient Alternative

You love camping, but the tent routine is getting old. All that hardware, and set up time. When it rains your up all night trying to stay out of the water. The next morning your packing up wet tents and sleeping bags. When you get home it’s unpack and clean and dry everything. Taking all the cooking gear out from the trunk to make breakfast. Followed by the clean up, washing dishes out of a bucket on the picnic table. Sounds like fun doesn’t it.

Looking at the cost of a travel trailer, they’re beautiful and functional, but expensive. Starting at $10,000, and climbing rapidly. Folding tent trailers are no better, as in reality you still have a tent to set up, its just mounted on wheels. How can you improve your camping experience without a second mortgage on the house? Plus dragging that boat anchor down the highway is will send your mileage right into the ditch.

Think small, and comfortable. Think Teardrop Trailers. How would you like to have a Queen sized bed, completely enclosed in its own little bedroom. Free of bugs, water proof, a comfortable escape from the elements. It can be as comfortable as you want, lights, air conditioning, television, DVD, what ever makes you happy can be done,and done a whole lot cheaper then a full sized trailer. Standing at the rear of this little charm you raise a truck lid type hatch, and like magic, there’s a working kitchen. Again it can be as deluxe as you like, small refrigerator, sink, water pump. A fold out counter will give you space to set up the propane stove, allowing you to be a mobile gourmet.

The name says it all, the Teardrop shape is aerodynamic, with its curved front and tapering rear, the wind just rolls over and off these small wonders. These trailers are light, usually well under 1,000 lbs. Almost any car can tow them. Your 30mpg mini-SUV will hardly notice the presence of a Teardrop trailer. Plus the mileage will remain almost as good as it was without the trailer.

If your handy with some wood working tools this can be your next fun project. Many build their trailers around the standard 4×8 sheet of plywood. Using a light weight utility trailer frame, they use a 4×8 sheet of plywood as the floor. If you want the luxury of a queen sized bed a 5×9 or 5×10 platform would be required. There are many sites on the Internet that can give you information about building your own Teardrop trailer.

Another route would be to buy a manufactured shell and outfit it the way you want. An option that takes the hard part out of your hands, and assures you that the finished product will be a good looking, good handling little trailer. Your only limited by your imagination. After you take your first trip you’ll come up with some modification you can’t live without. That’s all part of the fun.

For those with two left thumbs, not willing to tackle a project of this size, numerous manufacturer’s will do all the work for you. Teardrop Trailers are available ready to go, decked out as fancy or plain as you like.

One thing for sure, when you pull into the next campground with your little rig behind you, before you can get the checkered table cloth on the picnic table, people will be walking up to take a look at your little charm. Nothing draws a crowd quicker then something cute and unique.

With the cost of gas ruining many good vacations, this is a way to get back on the road, and see the country again. If your into off roading, build your trailer higher off the ground and it will follow you where ever you go. This is one of the most flexible designs ever built.

No more excuses, get out the saw and wrench set, time to start building your own camper and get back out into the wilderness. You won’t regret it.

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