What led you to get a T@B?

I loved my Silver Shadow teardrop, but literally sitting out storms inside and not having an inside bathroom were the big deciding points.

We went from a 40' Winnebago to our T@B. I like to say it has everything the Winnebago had except a fire place, and it fits in our garage.

Go ahead Foxden...she will never know the difference:)

Like Verna, I loved the Silver Shadow too but  up-sized to help out my lady Linda as she has back problems and needed a trailer where she could stand up and also a unit that had a bathroom area.  No regrets here as we love the trailer and are looking to go to a 400 in a few years if the $$$ is there and things shake out.   

I actually don't mind the tent now and again.  But we go to a few music festivals each year and the facilities often consist of porta potties and cold showers.  Needless to say a tiny camper with a toilet and shower was awfully appealing.  Plus it is much quieter in the T@B then a tent when the revelries continue late into the night in the camp ground.

As a family we had tent camped a fair amount, but then the kids grew up... I continued to tent camp occasionally, sans wife & kids, and still enjoyed it, EXCEPT for the inclement weather part. Set-up, takedown... the worst was having to open everything up a second time later to allow it all to dry out! I think that was the worst for me, wet weather. Sleeping on the ground was also becoming ... less enjoyable, let's say.

When some neighbors came home with their new T@B, we were smitten! Three years later, we bought it from them. (It had been all the way from NH to AK and back!) I loved that I could pull it with my Jetta TDI Wagon, no set-up involved, and DRY; it even had HEAT!!

Ours was an older DM T@B, so no self-contained water system and only a small porta-potty (that was never used). We just stayed at campgrounds where we could access bathrooms. Really loved that little thing, but eventually up-sized --not by much-- to a short wheelbase Sprinter-based Roadtrek. I can certainly appreciate that the new T@Bs have a bathroom and a water system; they're really convenient to have!

Still miss our T@B, it was so simple... but have learned how interesting it is to be able to dry-camp darn near anywhere, using our "small RV" with water, bathroom, solar & battery storage, like many of you have done with your T@Bs.

Hope you don't mind, but I'll still always approach & talk to you T@Bbers whenever I run in to you. (Guess now I'm officially a "zombie"...?)

Walt in NH

Rain, rain and more rain. The last 4 or 5 times I tent camped, it rained every time (North Carolina), Usually just for 15 or 20 minutes over the course of an entire beautiful weekend, just enough that I'd have to set up the tent again when I got home to dry it out. Bought the T@B in November 2015 and never looked back!

@irvingj, Walt, definitely NOT a Zombie! You're still a part of the T@B family! Heck, we even let @Ratkity stick around!  

@Ratkity, good thing you weren't sippin' on yer favorite beverage on that one, huh......or were 'ya?
Doesn't seem to effect my typing.....much.

<clearing throat> Back on topic.......

Thanks, guys. In case you hadn't noticed, I really loved our simple little DM T@B, and gave it a lot of TLC. Thank you for allowing me to hang around on this forum!

I firmly believe that I'll always remember that white teardrop we used for just a few years, and the adventures we had with it. Now camping in a different category, but still.... (And folks ask why I opted for the very smallest Sprinter-based camper.... DUH!)

Form follows function.

A soft dry bedroom with a nice functional kitchen out back.
The next level of accommodations for mature back packer, bicycle tourists.

While camping in our traditional teardrop in Glacier National Park trying to figure out how to cook outdoors in wind and rain, neighbors at the next site invited us over to sit inside their trailer and visit.   We had no idea what it was, but it sure was cute!   Guess what?   It was a T@B!  When an indoor bathroom became an option, we gladly became T@bbers!