Adventure Film 07: The Family Tree

This is the seventh post on the Adventure Film project. If you haven’t read parts 1-6 of the adventure film blog series yet, you can read them here: Adventure Film 01: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 02: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 03: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 04: Glacier National Park Adventure Film 05: To Camp-Inn Teardrops Adventure Film 06: Lakes & Origins I […]
Adventure Film 06: Lakes & Origins

This is the sixth post on the Adventure Film project. If you haven’t read parts 1-5 of the adventure film blog series yet, you can read them here: Adventure Film 01: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 02: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 03: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 04: Glacier National Park Adventure Film 05: To Camp-Inn Teardrops “I’ve got a great ambition to die of […]
Adventure Film 05: To Camp-Inn Teardrops

This is the fifth post on the Adventure Film project. If you haven’t read parts 1-4 of the adventure film blog series yet, you can read them here: Adventure Film 01: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 02: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 03: Ocean Shores Adventure Film 04: Glacier National Park Days 6-7 On the morning […]
Teardrop Sighting

If you have been reading my posts on the Adventure film, I have more posts about the film’s production coming. This is just a quick little enthusiastic posting. I am always excited when I see another teardrop on the road. Usually, I whip out my cell phone & shoot a few pictures of them. Upon […]
Adventure Film 04: Glacier National Park

The goal of the Adventure Film Project is to create an educational film about teardrops & tiny trailers which connects standard high-school US History topics (ie National Road system, Effects of Labor Unions, Model T & mass produced automobiles, national parks, and world war II). Read more about the film here. For part 1-3 of […]
Adventure Film 02: Ocean Tears

This is part 2 of the adventure film adventures at Ocean Shores, WA. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, you can read it here. Day 2 We awoke at about 9 am but didn’t want to get out of bed. The rain landed on the roof of the trailer and the Assistant to the […]
Adventure Film 01: Ocean Tears

It is a very busy time for the jPod Overland Trailer. The first travels have started for the educational film that I am making with the help of the Library of Congress, National RV Museum and many other wonderful people (read more about it here). Here is a quick schedule for this first bit of […]
The Greatest Adventure

The jPod has easily become a part of our life. Senior Management enjoys the ease & comfort of camping but also the mobility. We are both happy with the size of the jPod teardrop trailer. For a time, there was a debate in the family about whether it should be an 8 foot or 10 […]
Adventure: “Hey, BURN!”

Recently, Nathan & Erin and the jPod crew left for a quick weekend of camping. For convenience sake, we chose Heyburn State Park in the lovely state of Idaho. According to their website: “Heyburn State Park is the oldest park in the Pacific Northwest. Created in 1908, it is comprised of approximately 5,500 acres of […]
Better than Playground Slides

As a teacher, the bulk of my work on the jPod has to wait until summers. After classes got out for summer break, I’ve gone into overdrive mode to finish the jPod build. Any teardropper will tell you that their teardrop is never done. Yet, I want mine to reach a certain level of accomplishment […]