Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Touring Teardrop




I've had a thing for teardrop trailers for a 4 or 5 years now. I used to daydream about building a superlight steamed plywood and fiberglass teardrop while I was putting in shifts at Whole Earth Provison Co. in Austin. Watertight but well ventilated with a little stow away kitchen in the back hatch, my cozy, custom teardrop still takes to highways and the national parks all across the mythic, Quozian North America of my mind from time to time, towed behind the much-missed left-hand-drive Subaru I used to own in Japan.

Ha. And then I saw this. My dream of a teardrop is revised. I am starting to mentally construct one that I could conceivably stow in my Vancouver apartment, perhaps one that could double as a loveseat and maybe triple as a conversation starter in those domestic environs. The mind races with the possibilities, and glides along the smooth, sleek lines of the bikeable teardrop, one with a roof rack for surfboards or kayaks. Man, am I stoked on this idea. Got lots of other things to do though, so I'll put this way back on the backest burner and let it stew.

I've got a big, big backlog of stuff to post to the blog but it is going to have to wait for a little while longer until I catch up with the stuff that actually pays bills. Back soon.