Truck Camping on the ragged edge

sleepy wrote:
Part of my collection fluoresced... but so did the bed cover... every bit of organic material on the bed lite up... there was spit, snot, puke, semen, blood, feces and more... food, drinks, and who knows.

People have sex on the beds covers, they also go to the toilet and don't wipe well... then sit naked on the bed... if you can imagine it... people do it.

Food and drink in bed absolutely ticks me off.;)

Seriously, regarding truck bed camping, some of my fondest memories as a kid were camping/hunting for Javelina in AZ and Elk hunting in Colo.
We would go places that you absolutely could not get a truck camper into. No roads. We would literally 4 wheel up and down mountain sides to get to "that" spot. And Not without sustaining some damage to the truck. That's how tight it got. Completely cut off form anything and anyone. In retrospect, we probably went too deep in the back country, but it sure was fun.

3K lb. plus truck camper hauling is inherently more complicated than towing a TT. That's a fact. Just look at the ongoing threads. Weight, tires, weight, wheels, stability, weight, tires, weight, stability.

None of my immediate friends has or ever had a truck camper. Either class C's or TT's or a truck. When asked why not a TC? Invariably, they've answered either too much work loading/unloading, too much cost or too small for what you pay.

I do think there's something to be said in just hitching up and leaving.

Then there's the "other" campers. Or more specifically, annual vacationers. Of all my neighbors on the street, only one has a TT. And my street has a lot of homes on it. The ones I do know and talk to, are the get on a plane, go to destination, stay at hotel or relatives place, rent camper or go to an RV park for a week and come home type people. That's their idea of camping.

When we first bought the camper and came home, my next door neighbor (a Volvo driving stock broker) asked if we had gone on vacation. I told him, no. We just bought it in Oregon and brought it home. For some reason he couldn't understand why you would drive to another state, buy a camper and not make a vacation out of it. I told that we take short trips rather than full blown vacations. Again, his idea
of getting away isn't a 2 or 3 day weekend. It's has to be minimum 2 week vacation on the East Coast. LoL

Oh well. Tomatao, tomatoe, I guess.