Does buying that 45' rig do it for you?
Bear with me, this is going to take some verbiage to explain. The DW and I attended a presentation at Hershey this year and one guy explained the RV manufacturers' statistic that most new RV'ers tend...
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I look at it this way.... It depends on your lifestyle.
If you want to be a RV Traveler and hit the roads and go all over the country using the best campgrounds and resorts then bringing along ALL your home comfort items is a must do thing. You want the biggest thing you can afford and you will suffer all of the high dollar maintenance upkeep and cost of getting your hugh RV unit from Point A to Point B. This is not going to be a low cost situation for you. Dealing with all of headaches of driving down the roads with a hugh RV surely can't be much fun. Family Folks I meet up with driving the hugh RV UNITS are wore down to a frazzle when we get together both doing around 1500 mile trips.
If you want to do camping mostly off the power grid and in the Natl Forest and Parks even dispersed style camping then a much smaller RV is only needed. This is my style of RV camping. I have a 12-foot POPUP camper box with a 5x8 front deck and a full truck bed to bring along all of our camping needs. Our camper loads out at around 4200lbs and is OFF-ROAD style and will go anywhere my 4WD truck will take it. We have the comforts of home with modern appliances just abit short on inside trailer move around room. Being avid tent campers in the past this suits us just fine and we enjoy the outside life more than depending on a hugh shelter being the RV Camper. Our trip costs is almost the same as just driving our truck with or without the attached camper. We use less fuel which results in less stops along the way, and driving the roadways is not a nightmare by any means.
My comparison is with the other side of the family and their hugh RV unit compared to my smaller RV unit. We get the same great comfortable sleep in our beds, cook up the same meals, watch the same amount of high quality HDTV, play the same games around the camp site, have the same dogs along with us, sit around the same outside firepit, go visit all the same attractions where we are staying. My trip cost is about 1/4th of what my brother-in-law pays... My RV maintenance is two new tires about every four years. My other cost is State Farm Insurance and Yearly Inspections.
I drive a F150 truck pulling my Starcraft 14RT OFF-ROAD POPUP Trailer and he drives a 3500 Chevy truck pulling his 40-foot plus Montana Trailer.
When we visit he is always asking about my OFF-ROAD trips and of course I am always asking about the high society place they go to. Both of us usually do the our own same RV trips each year and usually in SEP/OCT time frame we both end up at LAKEWOOD RESORTS in Myrtle Beach each year for a mini family reunion for us still living kids of the family.
His big worry points is not breaking down somewhere way off and my biggest fear is having enough battery bank to keep us going all night.
My brother-in-law is on their third big Montana trailer since 2008 and I am still pulling my 2008 14RT trailer. We both have traded trucks once during that that same period.
He is happy with his RV Traveling Life Style and we are happy with our RV OFF-ROAD Camping Life Style. That is all the counts in the long run...
Roy Ken
If you want to be a RV Traveler and hit the roads and go all over the country using the best campgrounds and resorts then bringing along ALL your home comfort items is a must do thing. You want the biggest thing you can afford and you will suffer all of the high dollar maintenance upkeep and cost of getting your hugh RV unit from Point A to Point B. This is not going to be a low cost situation for you. Dealing with all of headaches of driving down the roads with a hugh RV surely can't be much fun. Family Folks I meet up with driving the hugh RV UNITS are wore down to a frazzle when we get together both doing around 1500 mile trips.
If you want to do camping mostly off the power grid and in the Natl Forest and Parks even dispersed style camping then a much smaller RV is only needed. This is my style of RV camping. I have a 12-foot POPUP camper box with a 5x8 front deck and a full truck bed to bring along all of our camping needs. Our camper loads out at around 4200lbs and is OFF-ROAD style and will go anywhere my 4WD truck will take it. We have the comforts of home with modern appliances just abit short on inside trailer move around room. Being avid tent campers in the past this suits us just fine and we enjoy the outside life more than depending on a hugh shelter being the RV Camper. Our trip costs is almost the same as just driving our truck with or without the attached camper. We use less fuel which results in less stops along the way, and driving the roadways is not a nightmare by any means.
My comparison is with the other side of the family and their hugh RV unit compared to my smaller RV unit. We get the same great comfortable sleep in our beds, cook up the same meals, watch the same amount of high quality HDTV, play the same games around the camp site, have the same dogs along with us, sit around the same outside firepit, go visit all the same attractions where we are staying. My trip cost is about 1/4th of what my brother-in-law pays... My RV maintenance is two new tires about every four years. My other cost is State Farm Insurance and Yearly Inspections.
I drive a F150 truck pulling my Starcraft 14RT OFF-ROAD POPUP Trailer and he drives a 3500 Chevy truck pulling his 40-foot plus Montana Trailer.
When we visit he is always asking about my OFF-ROAD trips and of course I am always asking about the high society place they go to. Both of us usually do the our own same RV trips each year and usually in SEP/OCT time frame we both end up at LAKEWOOD RESORTS in Myrtle Beach each year for a mini family reunion for us still living kids of the family.
His big worry points is not breaking down somewhere way off and my biggest fear is having enough battery bank to keep us going all night.
My brother-in-law is on their third big Montana trailer since 2008 and I am still pulling my 2008 14RT trailer. We both have traded trucks once during that that same period.
He is happy with his RV Traveling Life Style and we are happy with our RV OFF-ROAD Camping Life Style. That is all the counts in the long run...
Roy Ken
