We got the truck! Now we need the fiver!

RoyB wrote:
Congrads on new truck setup - you should be all set now for for your new bigger trailer. Was looking at google image photos of your planned trailer and it seems to have slides all the way around it haha..

Bigger however is not always better especially with boys your age...

Camping next to a creek bed back on a forest road trail has its merits as well.

You might want to add a much smaller trailer setup to your trailer lineup just for those special Boys days... My kids that are grown up now still has many of stories about our early tent camping days passing on to their kids.

My big trailer sits in our camp back yard and we run the roads in the off-road POPUP all the time. Most of our camping is off the power grid..

I never could get my bigger truck to pull our 5th wheel trailer the salemans said "you will not have problems pulling this baby with your F150" We got a couple hundred miles on it before parking it in the back yard.

Everytime the grandkids come over they want me to setup the POPUP for them. They like hanging out in the bigger trailer ok but really-really like the POPUP... They will pick the tent beds over the real nice bedroom in the fifth wheel everytime here.

Actually so do I hehe... Also my F150 gets almost the same gas mileage pulling my off-road POPUP trailer or not. I can count on 18MPG but sometimes get up to 20-21MPG sometimes.

Roy Ken

Roy....we are actually becoming full-timers. We are going to LIVE in the 5th wheel so we would really prefer our boy's to have an actual bedroom.

I also LOVE tent camping, and thankfully, our 5th wheel's basement will have plenty of storage so we can store our tent...so whenever we want, we can pull it out, put it up, and sleep in it when we want. I grew up with pop-up campers, and absolutely loved them too for the occasionally weekend camping trip. I, however, could not live in one with 4 people.

We have been searching and searching and researching and researching on what will best suit our family. We are really excited about getting the Heartland Gateway with the bunkhouse.