Since we are now empty nesters, we wanted to downsize. Going to a Class B was VERY expensive. We are buying a brand new F-150, tricked out like we want, and a brand new Airstream trailer for about half what we would have spent on an equivalent Class B.
Reason 2, even if we went Class B, to go driving without breaking camp, we would have to tow a car. We thought it was silly to drive a Class B and tow a car that was almost as big as the RV.
Reason 3, since there is just the 2 of us, we got tired of having 4 vehicles. We had the MH, the toad, a minivan, and a pickup truck that DW inherited from her father. The pickup truck is too useful to give up. It hauls stuff. The minivan is too useful to give up. It hauls stuff inside, out of the weather. That left the MH and the toad. Since the pickup truck was not enough truck for our new trailer, we traded the MH and the pickup on the new trailer. (Actually, we sold the pickup to the RV salesman. We traded it to the RV dealership, and the salesman wrote the dealership a check. They were just the middleman.) As soon as the new pickup truck comes in (8 to 10 weeks) we will list the toad and our Ready Brute Elite tow bar for sale somewhere. That will get us down to 2 vehicles.
