Hello,
My name is Leslie, and my husband and I are currently in the process of transitioning from "dreaming of building a TTT," to "designing/building a TTT."
I'm a certified dog trainer, who competes in a sport called dog agility. I travel the country giving K-9 performance sports training clinics. I also write dog training articles for several major K-9 performance sports magazines. I retired from my corporate job about 5 years ago, and haven't looked back since.
My husband is a district manager for an electrical wholesaler. In his former life, and while putting himself through college, he was a finish carpenter for a high-end luxury home builder in central Oregon.
We enjoy traveling with our dogs, and doing home remodeling projects.
We both have a disease I call AR-itis. It's an affliction that creates an obsessive compulsive need for perfectiion in any project... If I'm completely honest, I would say that I, the wife, am the only one affected with this condition. I happen to have an adorable, and understanding husband who has the skills to turn any project into a work of art, with what I refer to as "musuem quality" results. I thank God for him, for without him, I'm sure I would be institutionalized from project anxiety!
We are now embarking on a journey to build our own TTT. We have acquired plans from more than one person, and have decided that the only way to get exactly what we want is to design our own plans, which we have done, and are currently refining.
We have built our trailer in our minds about 2,000 times.
We are having our frame built as I write - this was one area we felt was best left to the professionals.
It took a long time to make sure that we fully understood every step before we made the choice to go forward. We feel (maybe naively so!) prepared for this journey.
We look forward to the experience, and are extremely grateful to all of you on this list for posting some truly wonderful information, which I have been absorbing with the obsessive ferver of an AR-itis sufferer...
Leslie & Cliff (and our dogs) in central Oregon