Travels with...Scotty

In an earlier post, I noted that we had had a June auto trip planned to Gettysburg, for a Civil War bike ride with brother and four pals, I was intrigued to find a "repro Scotty" on eBay, a 1958 Scotty Junior model, built in 2011 by a West Virginia high school shop teacher. It was listed for a good price, looked perfect, so I bought it on-line, picked it up enroute to Gettysburg, and my spouse and I, over three weeks, towed it all the way to Long Island, NY, then back across the US to California. Camping and living out of the Scotty Junior takes a bit of adjustment. Like all the early teardrops made in the 40s and 50s, they were built on a 4'X8' plywood foundation. That makes them 4' wide, 4' tall, and 8' long, with an interior sleeping compartment 6'4" long by a little less than 4' wide. Cozy for two, but we sleep very well! In the back is a small "kitchen hatchback" where we store camping gear, pots and pans and the like. Overall, we have learned to travel pretty light, storing other camp gear like small table, chairs in the interior compartment, and storing "chilly weather gear" in the interior cabinets. We each get a clothing bag, which we toss in back seat of a 2013 Focus Hatchback, our tow vehicle. Barring wet or really cold weather, a very pleasant way to travel (of course, we toss in a stop at relatives/friends or a motel every so often, so we are not camping continuously)! Getting 26 MPG is also likeable, compared to 7 MPG for those diesel pickups pulling giant 5th wheels that we often pass!