So we went to Home Depot this last weekend and did some brainstorming. Left with all kinds of fun stuff, and spent about six hours with a carbide drill bit and a pencil torch to turn this:



(Our old baby trailer, since updated to a much nicer model for the 2 yo)

To this:





Looks a little cobbled together at the moment, but it is actually quite sturdy, with room for clothes and camera equipment and other stuff that needs to stay dry in the box, and a couple spare tires, tubes, and two 10L dry sacks up front. The tires are temporary, came off of an old mtb, I plan on getting some narrow road slicks asap. The advantage of the 26" wheels is that the flatbed sits perfectly level. Still some work to do, but it looks promising. My girlfriend and I are planning a tour in June, and this will let me pack the heavy/compact stuff in the Nomad, and let her carry the bulky, but less heavy items with much less wind resistance than the drag-chute-like canopy trailer.

Okay, the wheels don't match, but reuse/recycle, right? Total cost so far into things we were going to get rid of anyway: $60.