First trip coming up next month (Rental TT)

carbine wrote:
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It's separate from the trailer, mounted to a rack that the owner has. ....

That will probably work OK then. Still, keep an eye on it.

FYI, "Outback" is a good build camper. We've enjoyed ours to no end! This is our 3rd travel trailer and by far, the best. Our Dutchmen (first TT) was a good camper, but we had it the shortest time. So long term, don't know how it would have held up. We have the Outback for 4 years now, and pretty much, (overall) been a trouble free camper. I do my share of preventative maintenance on it, work hard to keep it clean, and inspect roof seems often. It tows wonderful, but I also attribute the success for that to my 3500 duly diesel too. My current truck has the factory integrated brake controller which makes the truck and camper truly brake as one unit. It's still awesome after owning the truck for 3 years. My previous truck, diesel 3500 duly also, had an aftermarket brake controller that just caused the trailer brakes to grab. It was like, all brake or nothing. So the slower you went the harder it jerked. So, the new truck is a marvelous towing beast!

Our Outback is 35 feet long. We've never had problems getting into any campground we've wanted. But we did have to be selective, and some sites with narrow sites surrounded by trees would would have been near impossible to back into. So we select our sites carefully so we have no disappoints when we get there.

Considering you are doing a rental, you're approaching this from a really great advantage. When (and if) if start searching for your own travel trailer, you're going to have a hard time finding something that will beat the Outback line. In other works, your experience will spoil you! So, enjoy! enjoy! enjoy! while you have it!

Happy travels, and when the trip is all over, hope you post a follow up of how it all went.