2016-07-12 Little Guy's "Tearstock 2016"

We went to this years Tearstock rally that's put on annually by Little Guy teardrops and Pleasant Valley Trailers. I went for the whole week but as usual for this rally Carie could only make it for the weekends. It was at Atwood Lake Park campground in Mineral City, OH. Where they've had it every year since the first Tearstock in 2013. This is my 3rd one and will probably be my last. The park is prepping to totally re-model the campground and I mean totally! They're going to bulldoze the entire place and start anew but here's the kicker for this rally...they clear cut every tree so there wasn't ANY shade to be found in the 90+ degree weather all week! Carie drove, or rode, separately since she had to work all week, but she rode up, 4 hours (!) each way on our Can-Am Spyder. Both weekends! That's a long haul on a Spyder! On the way up to the rally we came upon a classic car show and checked that out and ate their chicken dinner they offered up. They had the usual going on at the rally like the items for sale from The Teardrop Shop in the main tent, a pot luck dinner, a DJ on Thursday & Friday nights, T@B & teardrop modification tours, a couple of new T@Bs to check out, etc. I pretty much stuck around the campground all week and didn't venture out too much to the surrounding area in Amish country. We had a nasty storm blow through, too, on Tuesday night and it trashed a number of tent rooms and easy-ups! Here are my pics...

Clear cut. 'nough said...



The car show!

 



Joe & Debbie -

 

Carol and her setup before the storm

 

Carol's setup after the storm!!! Note the pile of twisted easy-up in the background of the first photo and the closeup in the second photo -

 

 Before the storm...

 

 

After the storm!!!

 

 

 

 T@Bs & ralliers

 

Sean -

 

More storm damage -

 

 

Jenine Pettit (below), kind of neat meeting her as she does a blog for GoRVing.com along with several other bloggers and I have been following those blogs for a while now. They are nice reading on all kinds of camping topics. Jenine also does a video blog which is what she is known for by most...except me. Ha. I just read the GoRVing blogs...

 

And some more storm damage...

 A view of the lake -

These three were excellent musicians and only a few sites away from me and kept me entertained all week.  :-)

 

 

John and his family. Cool set up with their custom Silver Shadow Little Guy teardrop being pulled with his Harley-Davidson van. John is a Little Guy/RV dealer in Western Indiana.

 

A couple of ralliers trying out our Segway's