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Margaret Sweep commented on my blog post: Starling Travel » Some Campsites Aren’t Good For A Teardrop Trailer

Gday from Australia . I have the same American Inc outback travel trailer. Two were imported into Australia, ours is the only one that has survived, the other one was lost in the last Victorian bushfires, we would not part with ours. Draws a crowd were ever we go.

Cheers Margaret and Ibo Sweep— June 25, 2012 @ 12:13 am

I immediately emailed her, asking for pictures. She was nice enough to send me a ton of them.

All these descriptions are Margaret’s:

Pics of our camper trailer, camping at 90 mile beach behind the sand dunes. Unfortunately, I do not have any pics without the Annex attached. (Nylon Summer Annex) Takes about 5 mins to setup. Pic shows a side wall removed, annex has a rear entrance with zip.

Our camper trailer has a canvas toilet change tent, attaches to a side door (aprox 4x6ft) great for the portapottie. Camper also has a free standing 2 roomed canvas tent that attaches over the rear kitchen (Approx 10x10ft) for winter use.

The rear kitchen contains a 12volt Deep cycle battery and charger (where the ice chest was). Ice box is now mounted on the front draw bar (Spare mounted underneath the Pod).

Kitchen has a portable gas stove and 12 volt lighting and water tap. Sink has been removed and a 12 gallon water tank and 12 volt electric pump has been installed under the pod to meet the hot Aussie summers.

Inside the pod, 12 volt lighting /fan and TV / DVD /Radio.

We generally river camp on our travels and call into caravan parks for showers when we can’t get them on the road. The only down side for our camper trailer was that we found that at night the pod walls held condensation even with the windows open, the walls and ceiling would start dripping. We installed a 12 volt extractor fan from a computer and run it all night, this has fixed the problem (uses very little power).

Deep cycle battery is charged automatically from the tow car when travelling, or via a 240 volt battery charger when camping where power supplied.

The Australian model came with rear lights and bumber bar (Crash bar).

I am so happy that Margaret shared photos and descriptions of her Teardrop American Outbacker with me because it’s so inspiring to see how many improvements she and Ibo have made to their trailer. Just like me, they ditched the sink and aren’t using the ice box area, but they have added so many things that are only in the dream stage for me like a deep cycle battery, a full-sized ice chest on the tongue and so much more. So inspiring!