manualman wrote:
IdaD wrote:
We started in a pop up and to me they're way too much like a tent to be worth having as a secondary camping rig. If you're going to tent camp, ditch the trailer and you can drive to a lot more remote locations or even break out the backpacking gear and really get after it. If you're pulling a camper of any kind that limits where you can go, and at that point you might as well have the comforts of a full hard sided trailer or fifth wheel. But all of this is just a matter of personal opinion.
Yup, some merit to that statement. But it misses the boat for a lot of people. If all my family camping trips involved backpacks and bivvy sacks, there would be none. Wife ain't havin' NONE of that!
So why not go full-on RV? No truck and no desire to own one, no place to park a fixed height and no budget for renting a storage lot (or 9mpg road trips). The pup happily trails the minivan we had anyways and waits patiently for us out of the weather in the garage. It's the RV that makes nearly zero demands on our life when we are NOT camping. That's what makes 'em the best! ;)
In fact, if I were offered $150,000 free to spend on the RV rig of my choice, I'd probably keep the popup and just pull it with a Roadtrek Class B.
I'd have a f450 and 9.5ft truck camper.
I have a 2500 suburban 10mpg all the time to tow trailer (A), fifth wheel nope (B) that's for kids when off from school, pupup (C)
(C) revisited. So I also have an old E250 van. Pup, Van, Quad>>>>>>Free weekends for me to die an early death!
Every other weekends kids and covering every angle What more can you do!
My offroad towing is very limited to East Coast fire roads. Occasional rut or two. If you could stuff a quad into a 2500 sub i would not need that 97 E250 Ratbox.
