Traveling fulltime: Your choice of rig?

dahkota wrote:

However, we find that we really really like to travel off road a lot. And our truck is sometimes too big for some of the trails. And our tt is definitely too big to get around on some of the trails. So, we are currently considering a class C and jeep set up. But, we want a diesel under 30' (why we are looking at Cs rather than As). But, we really don't want to give up our downtime space either. I don't think a perfect set up exists, you just need to find what suits you best.

We full-timed for 8 years in a 33' 5th wheel pulled by a Dodge diesel. We always hated driving that diesel around. Then friends got us hooked on Jeeping. We went to a 40' motorhome pulling a Jeep Liberty and it gave us 8 years of awesome fun by being able to do 4-wheeling in some very rough areas - Silverton, CO and Moab are our favorites.

Our motorhome is driven on gravel roads but naturally, there's a limit. We find great boondocking spots and then take off in the Jeep. It works for us. Our Jeep has 200,000 miles on it and still takes us off-road. Our Newmar Dutch Star motorhome has 80,000 miles. It's been a fun combination.

Other than boondocking, public campgrounds are always our first choices. We have had absolutely no problems getting into national or state parks, national forests, COE, county or city parks. It does take research but it's totally doable.