looking for opinions on R-Pod and NoBo's
Hi all, I am a complete noob to travel trailers but I am thinking about getting a small TT for taking my small but growing family through California. My wife and I have been avid and experienced Overl...
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Sorry but I don't have any experience with either of your choices but I do have something to share. You have spent your time, up to now, living in the out of doors, camping under the stars and I am assuming inside of a tent. The wife and I did exactly that although we did not do the backpacking thing. She loved the open air and resisted moving into any kind of trailer.
After one particularly wet few days after we had both of our daughters with us, she agreed to look at a tent trailer. We still camped "outside" but used the trailer when we had to get out of the weather. It afforded plenty of space and it worked well for us. We still had the canvas feel and with the sides zipped down it was like being outside. We camped this way for 17 years.
We then moved up to a hybrid since the girls were gone and we wanted to get out earlier when it was colder. The closed in feeling is what hit us first along with the chore of putting up and taking down when we went on long road trips.
Today we have our current trailer and it works well for a couple of late 60 types who take very extended trips these days.
After reading your plan, I had a flashback to our earlier days. We found the closed in feeling of a small trailer just too much of a change. A tent trailer is small enough and easy enough to tow and you can take them anywhere. We pulled ours up logging roads and through fields. Camped by lakes and streams and had great times.
After one particularly wet few days after we had both of our daughters with us, she agreed to look at a tent trailer. We still camped "outside" but used the trailer when we had to get out of the weather. It afforded plenty of space and it worked well for us. We still had the canvas feel and with the sides zipped down it was like being outside. We camped this way for 17 years.
We then moved up to a hybrid since the girls were gone and we wanted to get out earlier when it was colder. The closed in feeling is what hit us first along with the chore of putting up and taking down when we went on long road trips.
Today we have our current trailer and it works well for a couple of late 60 types who take very extended trips these days.
After reading your plan, I had a flashback to our earlier days. We found the closed in feeling of a small trailer just too much of a change. A tent trailer is small enough and easy enough to tow and you can take them anywhere. We pulled ours up logging roads and through fields. Camped by lakes and streams and had great times.
