Newbie Qs about Trucks, Campers and Wives
Hello! Aspiring future TCer here. After all my research, reading, dreaming , wonderlust and hand wringing, I'm completely sold on the Pros of a TC, and adequately accepting of the Cons. Or so I th...
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I am still working full time, so I cannot take the 3-4 week trips like some people do (and I would love to!). But I take alot of the out and back trips, and I'm relatively new at this.
I started looking for a unit in June 15' and started my research. I called dealers, but no one really wanted to talk to me, so I went to a RV Show, and another, and then drug my wife to one. I wanted her to see what I had, and to tell me what she liked and didn't like in these units. My wife wouldn't accept anything smaller than one of the Lance Mid-Bath Dry Bath models (which of course, is the largest one). So I had basically two choices. I settled on the 1172. I showed her this unit at a dealer, and we were pretty much set. Then I played the waiting game trying to find one used for a good price and taken care of. That came to fruition in November this year.
Keeping that in mind, my truck & my 1172 were under $70k. So you can get ALOT of truck and ALOT of camper for the buck, as long as you don't buy new on both.
As part of our research, we also rented a 25 foot trailer to see if we liked it, and we did a 8 day trip through the BRP and some of the mountains of NC, VA. My wife liked it, but was worried a TC would be too small. We felt a little confined by a trailer because you couldn't necessarily park it easily in a parking lot without drawing a lot of attention.
My wife didn't have complete buy in for the TC until we took our first trip. Now she really likes it. Before, she didn't think we'd really use it that much.
My TC has two slides, a full bath, and full kitchen. It's a little smaller than the trailer (by only about 5 feet) but the space is much better organized, and we feel that it's even more open than the trailer was.
You can see my truck, and my 1172, here: Marathon Trip
My Lance 1172
I started looking for a unit in June 15' and started my research. I called dealers, but no one really wanted to talk to me, so I went to a RV Show, and another, and then drug my wife to one. I wanted her to see what I had, and to tell me what she liked and didn't like in these units. My wife wouldn't accept anything smaller than one of the Lance Mid-Bath Dry Bath models (which of course, is the largest one). So I had basically two choices. I settled on the 1172. I showed her this unit at a dealer, and we were pretty much set. Then I played the waiting game trying to find one used for a good price and taken care of. That came to fruition in November this year.
Keeping that in mind, my truck & my 1172 were under $70k. So you can get ALOT of truck and ALOT of camper for the buck, as long as you don't buy new on both.
As part of our research, we also rented a 25 foot trailer to see if we liked it, and we did a 8 day trip through the BRP and some of the mountains of NC, VA. My wife liked it, but was worried a TC would be too small. We felt a little confined by a trailer because you couldn't necessarily park it easily in a parking lot without drawing a lot of attention.
My wife didn't have complete buy in for the TC until we took our first trip. Now she really likes it. Before, she didn't think we'd really use it that much.
My TC has two slides, a full bath, and full kitchen. It's a little smaller than the trailer (by only about 5 feet) but the space is much better organized, and we feel that it's even more open than the trailer was.
You can see my truck, and my 1172, here: Marathon Trip
My Lance 1172
