“Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny.” – Lucy Liu The Overland Trailer crew are hard a work building some new vintage-looking 58 Heald teardrop trailers. Soon new campers can have new adventures! As we’ve worked in the Overland shop, I dug through some inherited tools and found a great set of vintage […]
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Since the first trip to the panhandle of Idaho, I have done more work on the jPod. There were a few things I wanted to work out after using it. It is interesting how using the jPod automatically rearranges my priorities for this build. One priority change was to get more storage into the cabin
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Progress on the jPod has been slow since summer & it is tempting to be depressed about that. The only difference is that I am trying to keep up with teaching in addition to daily life. Yet, I am happy to have a job even if it distracts me from the build. A while back,
The high school that I teach at has an annual Spring Arts Festival. For the evening, the student’s creativity is put on display. There is quite a list: welding, photography, quilting, cooking, pottery, painting, gymnastics, instrumental numbers, singing, and much more. This even pulls in about 500-700 people. For this year’s festival some co-workers &
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My blog has seen a dramatic increase in traffic since last Thursday. This is because I finally exposed myself to the largest forum of teardrop builders in the world. Welcome to all of the mikenchell viewers. This forum has been invaluable in the planning of the jPod and I thought I’d share it with the
I finally made a blog of this project. It is -in part- to document the process like many other people out there have done and partly for my dad. He is currently riding his bicycle across the United States to raise money for American Lung. This blog can be a way for him to keep
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