I know you asked for recent experience, but I still wanted to share my experience with a much older rig. My first travel trailer was a 24 foot Coachman Catalina that we bought 25 years ago and we loved it. The only issue we had was with brittle plumbing elbows and that problem was fixed many years ago. We bought the coach brand new and it never went back to the dealer for any type of repairs. It was a great entry level coach and we travelled from California to Maine to Florida and back to California in it without any problems at all.
I towed it with an F-150 with a 300 Cubic Inch straight six and a four speed manual. I had to use an equalizer hitch to keep the back of the truck from getting too low. I managed to get the trailer through the Sierras and the Rockies, but not very quickly. I traded the F-150 in for an F-250 and was much happier.
