wbwood wrote:
I think pnichols is on the right track. Have you thought about a pop up camper? Maybe just get a used one for a couple thousand dollars for those places that you like to go to. Kind of what we did. Our TT was too big and not rigged for some of the campgrounds here in the mountains of NC (and around). So I looked around and found a used pop up that was in decent shape for those trips.
I am on my third camper in 3 years. I started out with a truck camper because of it's maneuverability, I needed something to get me between NY and SC when I drove up to visit my mother.
My mother is now living in a care facility in SC and now I have to clear out the house in NY. I traded my truck camper for a Jayco 5th wheel (the Jayco seemed huge compared to my T/C but I realized I wanted something bigger) and spent most of last summer living in the camper while I worked on the house. Last year I wasted over 3 weeks barely able to move lying in bed in my camper after taking a bad fall that aggravated my old back injury. The stops I have been making are all in camp grounds between SC & NY. I started with an 11 1/2 foot clearance, then a 12 1/2 clearance and just picked up a trade in 4 days ago that I haven't measured yet but I am guessing the new one has to be 13 1/2 feet or more. I doubt that I will be able to go back to 2 of of the sites I visited last year without ripping off my satellite dish.
Getting a pop up would serve no purpose for a couple reasons, one is I am not allowed to keep my camper on my property and need to pay $40 a month for storage and would have to double that to store another camper, Also a smaller popup would alloy me to get in and out of tight spaces between SC & NY but I would not want to live in it for a couple months. The house in NY has water but not heat and hot water (I have the heating system winterized) so that means no showers for 2 months.
When I finish things up in NY I plan on visiting a childhood friend in Tucson AZ, and a cousins in Utah, California, & Oregon. Maybe I'll even make it to Alaska.
Although I do prefer smaller out of the way sites my longer higher camper s going to make it close to impossible and I am worried about getting into a situation where I will rip of parts of my camper if I go forward, but there is no room to turn around and it is too far to try to back up.
