I can haz trailer?

Today I started looking into the utility trailer part of the future vardo. As it turns out, Sunday in semi-rural Alabama is not the best time to shop for things of that nature; Home Depot and Lowe's were open, and both had something that was at least close to what I'll need, but the other three possibilities weren't. Hopefully one of them will work out better; the version that both places I looked today was acceptable pricewise ($537 at Home Depot; $498 at Lowe's) but had features I really don't want. I have no need for a metal grill deck, and especially for a drop-down ramp. Also, I'm not too fond of the high side rails. I suppose they'd look OK painted to match the vardo body, but I'd rather not have to mess with them at all.

My ideal for this, after looking at construction pictures and finished examples online, would be a trailer with just the basic frame, towing setup, and lights. I know I've seen ones like that in the past, and hopefully I'll be able to find a "bare bones" version like that. It might even save me some money over the fancy floor-and-ramp version, and that would let me put more into finishing and decoration. This is going to be a terribly decadent tiny bedroom on wheels by the time I'm finished...

In other vardo developments, I'm leaning toward a dark green main body with red trim (as a reference until I find the "proper" terminology, Dark Angels Green and about the same shade of red as a Swisher cigar box), and possibly a red roof if I can find the right sort of canvas tarp. Painted decorations will be gold, as will some woodwork trim ideas I'm slowly planning out. I'm not sure about the interior paint yet, but I certainly have plenty of time to figure it out!

Earlier this afternoon my desktop PC got hit with a power fluctuation and no longer wants to start. This sucks in that I'll need to have it fixed eventually, thus taking money away from the vardo project and other more entertaining things, but it may be a blessing in disguise. No high-power desktop means no World of Warcraft, and removing that particular temptation for a while will let me concentrate better on things like class and tin whistle and exercise.

One final note...it occurred to me that this vardo is going to serve something of the same purpose for me that medium size boats do for, well, people who are into boats. I'll be using it to go places on land rather than on the water, and I really doubt I'll be fishing from it, but the spirit is there. I think that it needs a proper name, like a boat would get. So, unless I come up with something better before it finally hits the road, I'm thinking that she'll be named Festival Wind after a Heather Alexander song that does heinous things to my anti-wanderlust self control. The song can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23AHlvy8x9Y;don't listen to it if you want to be happy sitting in your living room watching TV.