This issue’s featured customer is Chad Larsen.  He is truly a pioneer and expanding our demographic….all while having a great time camping with his Little Guy.  Chad doesn’t mess around…he camps A LOT – he gets out, socializes, has a blast, totes his jetski and even went as far as making a custom hat in homage of his Little Guy.

Chad’s Testimonial – I first saw the Little Guy on The Price Is Right and knew I had to have one.  Two months later I had bought myself a brand new Little Guy 5 wide! What really sold me on it was how easy it pulls behind my Honda CR-V.   I hardly notice it behind me.  Without having to fill the gas tank all the time and  knowing that I could just hook up and take off, changed the way I looked at camping it was no longer a hassle to get ready for camping! I went from camping once a year to every other weekend “if not more”!

Welcome to the teardrop community Chad and we look forward to keep hearing about and seeing pictures of your camping adventures!

This issue’s featured customer is Wayne Rogers – below you will find some of his comments and adventures with his new custom 6×10 RT.

It is almost 800 miles from Ipswich, Mass to Sugar Creek.  That went fine and the accommodations were superb. I was so glad that we picked the trailer up at the factory. The questions that we had were corrected quickly by your people. When we left the factory and arrived at the corporate offices in Massillon I wanted to shop the options in the display case but the wife wanted to move on.  She got antsy wanting to reach our camp site early so I had no time to shop.

I had made reservations at camp ground on lake Ontario in NY for Friday night. As it worked out it was a really nice site right on the water. Now I know that you do not have an appreciation for my wife’s phobias. My wife has every phobia that you can think of. You name it she is afraid of it! Well….. when you were describing the integrity of the trailers cabin you told us jokingly that “It is so tight that you need to keep the windows open in order to breath”. This is not a good thing to tell my wife. She took this as littoral. When we camped that night in upstate NY she insisted that all the windows be open because we need to breath. In the middle of the night, about 2 or 3 AM she was awakened by the nose of a local bear pressed to her side screen 5 inches from her nose! I was awakened by her screams. The bear left after 20 to 30 seconds of her screaming. It was a moment that we will both remember for a long time! Nice first night! We still laugh about it.

Now for some first impressions. The trailer pulls effortlessly. It was like there was nothing behind me, no wind buffeting, no effects at all. When we arrived at the site everything went easy we pulled in, plugged in and went to sleep! During the drive starting in Sugar Creek  it took me a few miles to find a happy spot for fuel mileage. On the trip back I split the driving miles almost 50/50. I drove 390 miles on Friday and 385 on Saturday. On Friday because of the late start I found it necessary to push the speed limits. I was doing 80 to 85 MPH on the way to our NY camp site. The Jeep normally gets 20 +-.5 MPG. On Friday at 80 to 85 MPH the fuel mileage dropped to less than 16 MPG! On Saturday I laid back to around 60 to 65 MPH and got 20.8 MPG!!! WOW! Once I found the Jeeps sweet spot the MPG was predictable. The R/T does not seem to burden the drive at all. In NY on the NY thruway there were some terrible rains and winds. All traffic stopped many times for 10 minutes at a time with nothing at all moving! The R/T showed no bad manners in the terrible weather and NO LEAKS. All in all we are very happy.

A final note; You were correct. I got many, yes many inquiries about the R/T along the way. Before we left Ohio I was asked if it was made in Ohio and I said “Yes in Sugar Creek” The reply was “ Where the hell is Sugar Creek”?

This issue’s featured customer is Ann Shirley.  Here’s an excerpt from her email:

“I’ve been the talk of the neighborhood since my Little Guy arrived last September.  There was a crowd watching the unload, then visitors, visitors and more visitors.  I’m still the talk as everyone wants to know when my next trip will be.

Thanks again for your patience and support and for my little Buggy!”

This issue’s featured customer is Tom and Susan Kingma. They purchased a 5×8 Silver Shadow and made a few changes to it so it suits their needs to the T. They are members of Tearjerkers in the St. Augustine FL area.

The custom graphics they added accent their red HHR, as do the red trim rings. In addition to that, they added a external water filter mounted on the driver’s side (which is removable for mounting on cabinet door while driving ). This provides easy clean water wherever you’re at!
Get out and have some camping fun for us all, Tom and Susan and thanks again for sharing!

This issue’s featured customer is JaFranklin Marshall. He recently picked up his 5×10 Silver Shadow and had it equipped with a sink & stove…complements of Mel. He also had the AC unit ducted directly into his unit. This came on the heels of a well worn 4×8 home build, with no frills whatsoever, but as he says, he deserves this.

JaFranklin just returned from a gathering in the southeast, but particularly enjoys urban camping, staying in Walmart parking lots as he travels to his points of destination. He is retired and mixes in site seeing and National Park camping with visiting family and friend about 5 months out of the year. While JaFranklin admits his style may be unique, he insists you can’t always find a scenic place to stay. The next time you see a 5×10 accompanied by a very tall, older man, it just may be JaFranklin. Stop him and say hello.

November’s Customer of the Month hales from across the pond.  Englebert Reinhousen, a native of Germany but current resident of Denmark, bought his teardrop trailer nearly 2 years ago now.  Englebert gets out and about nearly every other weekend through the non-winter months.  He says his favorite camping activities include star gazing.