Importance of accessing TC without opening a slide.

We use ours to travel during the day, do activities, eat meals, etc and then find a place for the night. We often stop and enter the TC for different things such as eating, grabbing snacks, changing clothes, bathroom breaks, etc. An average day probably had 8-10 stops. To have to open a slide adds to the inconvenience plus a lot of wear and tear. Think 9 slide cycles per day for 50 days each year and that will go up to 150 days when I retire soon. It's also impossible to stealth camp if the slide must be out. And if you do stealth or boondock, it adds time to bugging out in an emergency.

We won't buy a TC with a slide because of the inconveniences. We don't think the added space is worth the headaches, lost storage, extra weight, extra cost, added leak potential and possible problems.