Recent content by DonSue

My wife and I have put several thousand miles on our Bike Fridays in the five years we have owned them. We are pretty serious cyclists but even riding a mile on a bike makes any day better. We have the Pocket Rocket model which means they are road bikes (with drop handlebars). As you know...

A pair of Bike Friday folding bikes in San Francisco, part of a response to a question about folding bikes in the Gear & Equipment forum area. Folding bikes are a natural complement to a teardrop. Folding bikes in San Francisco

We have also foundhttp://www.tvfool.com/ to be very helpful in determining which way to point our antenna. We have found that being able to use latitude and longitude (from Google Maps or Google Earth) with their mapping tool to be quite useful.

Our best recollection is that the price at Camping World (a physical store, Council Bluffs IA, not online) was between $150 and $160. We are currently camping in Minden at the ITG4 (but I am commuting back to work 2 hours away where I am typing this now) and a couple of storm fronts went...

It's even better than that. The upgrade only replaces the part of the fan housing that you see from inside the cabin (as well as the small arm that lifts the dome). The fan, the motor, the dome, and most importantly, the part of the housing you see from outside the teardrop are not changed...

We purchased the 6600R upgrade kit from Camping World a few months ago and upgraded the stock fan in our 550. It took maybe an hour. The instructions are generally good and include (small) pictures to help explain things, and of course they make perfect sense now. We have been out camping...

Betsey, Sue and I (Ultra 550 #357) are planning on being in Minden next weekend but may not be able to be there the whole time because of the press of some work back home (we only live a couple of hours away). Can you give us some idea of what the schedule of "events" might be during...

Hilditch, may I suggest a slight alteration, bumping your line up to #12? On the 12th day of Christmas, Camp-Inn delivered to me 12 Sticker lights a shining 11 pounds of propane 10 gawkers touring 9 Dutch Ovens 8 gallons fresh water 7 spare fuses 6 mugs a gleaming 5 bottles of...

Ken, Thanks for asking this very timely question. My wife and I were discussing this very question last night (we had a 28 degree F overnight temperature). And thanks to Cary for a very useful and informative answer. The light bulb idea is a great one and one we will be using. We are...

Jean, We also wanted some TV capability in our 550 but had read a lot of pessimistic info about how well it would work with small (and low) antennas. We finally just decided to try and see how well it would work for us. We certainly do not want to spend our time watching TV but we did want...

Pat, I have been using HanDBase since Palm III days, more than 10 years. It now sits on my iPod Touch and holds a couple of dozen small databases, including a couple that contain teardrop and camping information. We have only been on ten TD trips since last April when we picked up #357...

Pat, We are pretty serious about our food when we are camping in our 550 and the refrigerator we bought from Camp Inn was an essential accessory for us. The brand name is Dometic. It has worked very well during our first half-dozen excursions. We have been plugging it in in our kitchen a...

Jim, We are owners of a still-new 550 Ultra SUV that we picked up in Necedah on April 1. We are so happy with it so far that words fail me. Can't say we have much experience with it but what we bought to handle the kind of emergencies you are describing is called a PETT "Go Anywhere...

We had several purposes in mind. Our A/C needed some attention; we needed a place to park the teardrop for a night while we ate dinner in Chicago (Alinea), and we wanted to ride the famous Elroy-Sparta bike trail (the first (or so) Rail-to-Trail bike path which is about 20 miles south of...

This is the exotic camping locale where we spent our Fourth-of-July weekend. At least a few of you should recognize the place. Teardrop Camping