The journey begins!

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Yesterday,we bought a halfway completed teardrop trailer!  Weston had been thinking about building one from scratch but we were having trouble finding the harbor freight trailer to start with.  I started looking on facebook marketplace for trailers and came across a partially completed build.  The guy had started it 10 years ago and it looked fantastic.  He used to build stripper kayaks and used that technique to build the walls.

We went to look at it and figured it would be out of our price range.  We made an offer and he accepted!  we borrowed Nick's truck and brought it home yesterday.

Weston is researching and planning what our first step will be and then we will be on our way to teardrop heaven.  we will use this space to document the journey!

Today was cleanup day at Nick's garage to make room to build the teardrop







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