Here is the teardrop just yards from the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina. This is the first time the tear drop was taken on trip- kind of a shake down - to see how it did. I was worried about the hitch and things like swaying on the road, and whether my transmission would blow up. Thankfully by this point the 'drop had proven itself travel worthy and I had begun to relax. I was headed for a weekend workshop at the John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.