One Year with the Little Guy

[Hilldweller]

Hey, I made the slideshow, TWICE! Honored I tell ya'!

I was trying to shoot Sarah, Allie, & the White Unicorn; you just jumped in front of the camera...

Glad to see myself and Family Stump made it in several times! Makes me wish it was cooler already, ready to get back out in the woods for some relaxing camping with my expo folks. Awesome slide show Bill!

BTW, you guys look GREAT in the more recent shots, havent seen you in a couple months.

~ Stump

You guys and Bob are out there often; thanks for that.

Speaking of losing weight, how are you doing? I'm at the point where I'm gaining muscle mass faster than losing fat weight; I didn't really think it would happen at my age and after the cancer and all. My bench-press is up to 270 already; I couldn't bench anything at all back in January...


And camping? Gotta get Mirtes employed to afford the gas to go camping. At least the truck and trailer are paid off.
But crikey; 10 mpg when I pull the trailer...
Who's hiring?

[Hilldweller]

Ha! Pretty cool; they put my video on their website.
http://www.golittleguy.com/teardrops/videos.php

[The Swiss]

Ha! Pretty cool; they put my video on their website.
http://www.golittleguy.com/teardrops/videos.php

Congrats! I hoped they would

[hikingff77]

Got to say, sweet. I swear, I love my Silverado but that 'Wagon is a piece of greatness, matched with the trailer, which seems so tiny, is a very nice pairing. Great looking year, I will have one of those someday. Great job, keep up the good work.

[AFSOC]

It seems longer than a year that you replaced the Jeep with the PW. Great slideshow!

[Hilldweller]

It seems longer than a year that you replaced the Jeep with the PW. Great slideshow!

Yeah; April was a year. But the trailer went back to the factory for 2 months for retrofittig and repairs ---- so those two months didn't count...

[AFSOC]

Yeah; April was a year. But the trailer went back to the factory for 2 months for retrofittig and repairs ---- so those two months didn't count...

Oh, that's right...a reset adjustment in timetable. Trailer looks great and you are getting great use out of it. Congrats!

[Hilldweller]

BTW, there's usually a few comments about the music I pick for my slideshows....

I grew up in a house full of music.
Dad, a cop and Korean War AF vet, also blew sax in a swing band.
Aunt Betty was a professional Dixieland Jazz musician.
Uncle Herm taught brass and woodwinds in Hackensack HS.
Mom's dad (both adopted and biological as it turns out) played and sang.

So my tastes were influenced and colored; I listen to a wide variety of offbeat stuff.

"Home on the Range" is a standard; we all know it here in the States.

"Mull of Kintyre" has been one of my favorite all-time songs since I first heard Wings perform it in the late 70s. I like Andy Stewart's version for the more authentic-sounding Scottish flair.


Here's Sir Paul though. He wrote it (with Denny, I think), and he used PIPES in the Wings version:


And Trevor Jones' version of Dougie MacLean's (another nod to Scotland) "The Gael" ---- a song that has to be heard live with fiddles and PIPES to be appreciated...

[jim65wagon]

That is the coolest looking Little Guy teardrop ever. Nice that the video shows how much you use it and how many different places you've seen. Makes me jealous for more time to enjoy our trailer.....

... the mistakes made during the process, and the remedies that the shop made. It was a bumpy road....

A custom job is time consuming and throws off the normal building process a manufacturer is used to, glad it's all better now, building a teardrop for ourselves had its share of mistake and remedies.....and it's stilll a bumpy road with a few remedies yet to go, but at least the trailer is capable and campable now.

Subtracting the downtime when the trailer went back to the factory, it's now a full year that we've had the trailer in use and it's seen plenty of miles, parks, mountains, streams, etc.
We REALLY enjoy our time out in it ---- much of that's due to the company we keep, but you can't stress the value of a good night's sleep enough.

Glad you're getting a lot of use out of it and enjoying it and the ability it affords to get out where you want to go.

[Hilldweller]

There are still things on my to-do list, Jim ----- I'm sure that list will never end. Something is different, no matter how small, on every trip.
I'd really like to have an air-conditioned shop to work in so I could tweak it during the summer. It's usually over 100 degrees in my garage though.
My biggest gripe at the moment is the wasted space under the bed. I've got compartments but it's too much of a hassle to move the mattress enough to access them on the fly. I'd like to modify the covers and split the mattress in two; then install struts and hinges...