Full-timing in truck campers?
Are there any couples out there full-timing in a truck camper? Thanks.
Forum Discussion
It is often difficult to know what folks mean, when they say they are full timers. Some will admit to owning a home/park model/double wide, etc. somewhere, that they use for a couple of months a year, while they take care of doctors appts, dental work, etc. but still say they are full timers. There doesn't seem to be any wide spread definition of what the term means here on the forum.
We will often spend up to 100 consecutive nights out, on some of our summer trips to Alaska, from south Florida. But we own a stick built, here in the swamp country. Three months is probably close to our limit, for my wife and I in the TC, then we both need to get home for awhile. We tried full timing in a large Class A for 2 1/2 years and found we didn't care for it. It showed us, that the part of RVing we enjoy, is the traveling, not setting around campgrounds watching the grass grow, which is what we found ourselves doing the last year we were FTing. Only put 5,200 miles on the Class A that last year, with is about average, from what I have read in magazines.
Now that we are extended travelers, we tend to put about 15,000 miles a year on the RVs traveling. Just fits our needs much better. I probably use the term full timer, for the time we did it, as loosely as anyone else. During that time we owned three homes, Alaska, Colorado and Florida, and a ranch in Oklahoma. But the homes were rented or leased out and the ranch house was not livable, but did have full hookups which was nice to have for a couple of weeks at a time.
While we are on our fifth truck camper, if I was going to go full time again, I can't imagine any reason I would take the TC, when for us, our 5th wheel or a travel trailer or motorhome would work much better. Especially since we already own a truck, a trailer would be my first choice. I consider our TC to be our traveling rig, where we seldom spend more than two or three nights in one location and then we move on. Can't be beat for that type of travel for us. If we are going somewhere to stay for a week or so or have more people staying with us we will take the 5th wheel.
We will often spend up to 100 consecutive nights out, on some of our summer trips to Alaska, from south Florida. But we own a stick built, here in the swamp country. Three months is probably close to our limit, for my wife and I in the TC, then we both need to get home for awhile. We tried full timing in a large Class A for 2 1/2 years and found we didn't care for it. It showed us, that the part of RVing we enjoy, is the traveling, not setting around campgrounds watching the grass grow, which is what we found ourselves doing the last year we were FTing. Only put 5,200 miles on the Class A that last year, with is about average, from what I have read in magazines.
Now that we are extended travelers, we tend to put about 15,000 miles a year on the RVs traveling. Just fits our needs much better. I probably use the term full timer, for the time we did it, as loosely as anyone else. During that time we owned three homes, Alaska, Colorado and Florida, and a ranch in Oklahoma. But the homes were rented or leased out and the ranch house was not livable, but did have full hookups which was nice to have for a couple of weeks at a time.
While we are on our fifth truck camper, if I was going to go full time again, I can't imagine any reason I would take the TC, when for us, our 5th wheel or a travel trailer or motorhome would work much better. Especially since we already own a truck, a trailer would be my first choice. I consider our TC to be our traveling rig, where we seldom spend more than two or three nights in one location and then we move on. Can't be beat for that type of travel for us. If we are going somewhere to stay for a week or so or have more people staying with us we will take the 5th wheel.
