First up: Why a vardo?
Because I decided that tent camping it no longer for me, I want to go camping when I have time, which is in the fall and spring. In Texas with it's unpredictable weather means I want a roof over my head.
So I started to look around, and at this point I started to feel like Goldilocks.
This is to big:
I started by looking at various travel trailers.
What I found was basically a hotel room, tv's dvd players, cable hook up... the works. I kept expecting to find a jacuzzi tub in one. Where is the fun of that? I don't want to camp out / live in the trailer, I just want to have a place to run into when the weather gets nasty and a place that's dry to sleep.
This is to small.
So I started looking at smaller trailers and found Teardrops!
Cute: A nice bolt hold if the weather changes. But the downside is that you have to craw into bed.
Without a place to sit with a book, or invite someone in or even stand up and stretch.
Sooo not for me.
This is just right!
That's when I discovered Bowtops and Vardos:
Honest Truth: I spotted them watching the My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding on Youtube.
Now here is a travel trailer I can relate to!
A bed, room to move around, and it doesn't look like a big white box!
Color! Style, PERFECT!
Now I'm not quite sold, so I start reading:
- How to Build a Bowtop by Walter Lloyd
- (Which I had to Interlibrary Loan from England so if you want to read it, off to the library you go!)
- The New Gypsy Caravan by Timothy Lemke
- Go House Go from Portland Alternative Dwellings
- And I've got Small House Book by Jay Shafer on order
And decide that Bowtops are nice but Vardo's are Victorious!
Links:
As soon as I figure out links I'll get these too.
So I started doing more research. Trailers....
But that's a whole other post.
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