Editor’s note: This post is strictly informative and does not contain political views or opinions of Cool Tears Magazine. On Friday the United States government was unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services. While this effects every area of the US government is is crucial to those of us that enjoy the outdoors by spending time in the National Parks. National parks will remain open during the government shutdown. While the parks are open, man

Kingdom Metal Works is a small company located out in the country on a farm in Hampton Ky. After being contacted by the owners, I checked out their website to see just exactly what they are all about. The work is impressive and I loved their story so much, that I knew I had to share with our readers. From the words of the owners... "We had no idea how we were going to get the word out that we were ready for business in January 2016. Little by little as word gets around in sma

This giveaway has now ended. The great folks at Dometic sent a Fantastic Fan 3350 for our teardrop build and along with it they sent a FREE one to give away to one of our readers. This fan came put together and ready to install. I built the camper with a 14.5" square hole in the middle of the roof and ran standard 12 volt wiring through the roof spars. Once the fan arrived, I dry fitted the fan and connected the wiring (which shockingly worked the first time!) A little butyl

HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Cool Tears Magazine family! May your new year bring many weekends of peaceful times in your teardrop. As a sneak peek to the January issue of the magazine here is a wonderful bread recipe for your dutch oven. The new issue will contain several stories of girl campers and one of the contributors sent this recipe. I tried it out this past holiday weekend and loved it so much I felt it must be shared. As it is a "balmy" 5 degrees here in Kansas City today