More TC's in the past?

Testudo wrote:
...Bigger and bigger TC's will be the death-knell of the TC, Joe. The camper part will finally be too big to ever remove from the chassis and we'll just start calling them "Class C's".

Get outta my head!!

When my wife first talked about getting an RV, it took about 5 seconds to decide we both wanted a TC. She had happy childhood memories in one, I liked the fact that I got a pickup truck out of the deal and didn't have to double up on tires, oil, registration, insurance, etc. I also liked the ability to park in a regular space and not have tow/ back up a big trailer. Also, a TC still felt like a "camper." We'd been in big 5'ers and TT's at RV shows and it just didn't feel like "roughing it."

To my dismay, the small, light, minimalist simplicity of TCs evolved since we were kids ... away from (in conflict with) the TC's raison d'etre. Trying to stuff more and more amenities into a 4x8 pickup bed has led to TCs getting bigger and heavier to the point that a "regular" truck can't even haul them anymore. When I have to buy a 450 or 550 dually just to haul my TC, it's no longer a cheap, practical, minimalist RV which leverages a truck I can use for other stuff. I'd be better off with a Ford Ranger/ Chevy Colorado and a class C RV.

They say NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen for the astronauts that would work in space; Russian Cosmonauts just used a pencil. I want my TC to be a pencil on an F150, not a space pen on a F550 commercial dually.