Rent a truck with truck camper and see how you like it!
For years we thought we wanted a Northern Lite. So we rented one on a new Ford SRW. Within a day or so our minds were made up:
We still wanted a Northern Lite but a different model than what we had thought we wanted. And the SRW did not have the stability we wanted. So we wanted a DRW.
A new Northern Lite was way out of our price range. And used ones sell quickly. But within weeks we found exactly the NL we wanted. And it was on a DRW truck!
The rig was 12 years old but had only 18k miles. The only hitch was that it was several states away. So we flew from Denver to Spokane and drove home in our “new” rig. And it suits us quite well.