Will upgrade to 42ft widebody make me cry?

Searching_Ut wrote:
For the sake of argument, lets not worry about the weight other than the fact that I know I'll be unhappy with the power to weight combo. That said, current truck rating for carrying capacity is 3680. Dry pin weight of Bay Hill 5er Model 379fl=2390 and gvwr=16,070. In theory, we could probably keep things within spec. That said, my current setup is the first time I've owned a setup where I was fully adequate vehicle wise and I do enjoy the peace of mind it gives me.

I like the inputs regarding the view from the rigs living area. Being as how we currently only do rv parks around 20 percent of the time I kind of just picture rv parks as trailer park type parking lots. Seems we normally only use them when we're stopping in a city. We were looking hard at living area layout for television viewing etc, but hadn't really thought much of looking out the windows.

Size and bulk I am quite concerned about. For background I had a lifted beefed up popup I would drag along places like Canyonlands white rim trail behind a small s-10 blazer. Even took it up the Shaffer trail. Owned a old 34 foot class A for a year but got rid of it because it really wasn't up to towing a toad and I didn't like being stuck with no real transportation while on the road. The current TT only weighs about 8k fully loaded and we have drug it around a little over 21,000 miles in the 3 years since we bought it. We love to travel, and are looking forward to where we can do it at a slower pace spending weeks in each location rather than just a few days.

Sticking to the size issue, how big can you go before anything but truck stop type gas stations become the only real option? How many more options site wise would we have with something in the 36 foot range vs something over 40? Where is the cutoff for most people to where the size of the rig becomes stressful rather than fun?

The problem with your question is it is very subjective. What's comfortable for one person, isn't for another. I am perfectly comfortable with 43' 102" wide behind my SRW short bed. I was also happy with my previous 40' 102" behind the same truck. Towed the two close to 20k miles. Never had trouble getting fuel or in and out of sites. But, that's me. Unfortunately, how you feel doing it can only be found out by you doing it...