Planning Retirement Trips / Deciding on a RV

Great input!! I was wondering what I was missing. Your comments reinforce my thoughts. As far as toys we do bike and kayak but don't have to haul atv's or horses or side by sides. I went to the RV show last winter but was overloaded. My other thought is I want to go as small and light as WE can be comfortable. As opposed to as big as I can drag down the road. Don't hesitate to post other thoughts. I will communicate how I progress.

Before you buy a potential tow vehicle I would encourage you to get out and look at travel trailers. You should reach a decision on what floor plan and size works for you. You do t have to find the perfect trailer, just determine size needs, If you are buying a truck, you want to insure that the tow vehicle will be enough to pull the trailer.

If I was in your shoes, I would look for a 2-4 year old used trailer that meets your needs.

We have a 30' toy hauler travel trailer that allows us to bring our motorcycles, kayaks, and or bicycles with us. What we bring determines on where we are going. We usually take a 7-10 week trip every year and the trailer, truck, combination works well for us.

I am in the travel trailer camp. Everyone is different and we all have different preferences but I can't justify the expense of a class A or even a class C and still have to tow something to get around in. We have friends that have a beautiful Monaco coach and they pull a full sized Hummer H3. They love it and it works for them. Have friends that had a C and they got tired of having to unhook every time they needed to go to the grocery store. They did not have a "towed".

I prefer a TT because it suits the way we like to travel. Park it and have a home base and we do the sight seeing in the tow vehicle. It works for us. I find it to be more flexible for us. Your choice is critical not only for the issues you mentioned, insurance costs, repair costs etc. but the biggie is initial cost of the unit. You find out you don't like your choice of units or the floor plan just isn't up to the comfort level you wanted then decide to sell it and start over that really hurts the check book.

I don't know what size TT you may be in the market for but we just purchased a Keystone Laredo 334RE and love it. Its just the 2 of us too and for us this is pure comfort. Its 37 ft. with opposing slides and the bed is sideways in a slide in the front with a REAL closet all across the front end. You can actually hang clothing in it. Its a 5th wheel floor plan in a travel trailer platform. Check it out. Gvwr is 10k and I pull it with a GMC 2500.

We started with a used class c and then got a new one but found it hard to do much sight seeing when camped without a tow car. Problem is that have to unhook if you have to back up. We often got blocked into some difficult situations that If all people were considerate should not happen. After 10 years we switched to TTs and never regretted the move in 20 more years. If you were going to stay in one place like a whole season a tow car would make sense but we moved often and generally only stayed a few days at each place. Some campgrounds do rent cars.