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Endurance in a Tear?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:40 pm
by Bobgorilla
:thinking: I was wondering what the longest anyone's continously used their tear? :?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:31 pm
by Q
My longest single stay in my teardrop so far has been 3 months. The total this summer will be about 2 months.

Q

PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:52 am
by mikeschn
Q,

Are you by yourself, or do you have a spouse or friend with you?

Mike...

PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:14 am
by Arne
We did 28 days last year. Mostly moving daily, and never more than 3 days in one place.... me, sig. other, and dog.... worked well, biggest problem was sand in bed.... no matter how careful we were, it snuck in.

We only cooked when in remote areas, choosing to eat locally when possible. Cooking/cleanup takes valuable time unless you are camping (we were 'traveling').....

Actually, I think our way of doing it makes the tear more enjoyable, as we were away from it during the day, coming home later in the day or early evening just to clean up and go to bed, so we never got bored with it.

So far this year we have taken 3 trips, longest one week, shortest 3 days. Trips in driving distance, 5k, 900, 500, 250, 200 miles, and maybe missed one or two...

Next month, two trips planned, for the rest of the year, maybe 6-8..

I'd never do this in a tent....

PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:54 am
by beverlyt
Two nights, with spouse in 4' x 8' tear is about it for me.

Now if it were just myself, if the weather were warm, I could camp much, much longer. If we had made the inside more roomy, we would be taking it to TN and camping for weeks at a time as originally planned.

But.. since we didn't....we'll use the teardrop for weekend campouts and we'll use the Shasta for more lengthy campouts.

Bev

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:29 pm
by emiller
8) 7 days up in the white mountains of Arizona and about to do the same if not more starting this thursday. For those of you who no Bud klinefelter my partner host of azroundup.net he lived in his dads 1947 for two years as a kid in Phoneix, couldn't imagine the heat and dust. he's now 72 and likes camping in his teardrop just about as much as I do, and I camp about twice a month. Keep on tdroppin

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:18 pm
by campadk
We'll be doing about 40-45 nights this summer.. but not in a row.. come on now thats impossible! We have to come home to post some photos you know and check T&TTT after all. :roll:

PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:09 am
by len19070
I've got 34 days out this year for my new trailer, Theres talk of one more weekend in Nov. and another Winter Trip. BURRRRR.

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Happy Trails

Len

PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:06 am
by Arne
Len, why the heck are you carrying that big telephone pole with you..?../g/

PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:40 am
by subtearanean
arnereil wrote:Len, why the heck are you carrying that big telephone pole with you..?../g/




Dialup remote access?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:42 pm
by Gage
5 weeks this year. To Minden and back, just less than 5000 miles.
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Have a good day.
8)

PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:54 am
by billnut
:D Well Sis and I went two weeks six states
3,000 miles
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:10 am
by Lazybones
I did four weeks straight on the minden trip this year. Driving some 5800 miles. I've also spent about an other 40 days on weekend trips this summer. In my mind there is no better way to camp, and no better people to camp with than teardropers![/img]

PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:43 am
by dguff
We did five weeks and 9240 miles this fall. The longest stretch was five consecutive nights in the tear. We also stayed with friends and a few nights in motels. The next major trip may be the AlCan highway but that is a year or two in the future.

Jerome :)