What size is your TT for your family of 4?
If you have two young kids who love to camp and you ar certain you will never have a third kid: What size TT do you have? Do you have enough room or do you wish you had gotten a larger trailer?
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OK, are you ready for this?:) I had four boys scattered over about 20 years. Our trips were usually with two and sometimes three of the kids. Two teenagers and a young one. We tented for years and then we got a Coleman PU which we used for many years. I replaced the PU with a 16’ TT. The TT would sleep four adults and one smaller child if we made the dinette table a bed. Again we traveled all over the county with that arrangement.
But we were “campers “and didn’t live in the TT, it was sort of a hard sided tent. No TV’s allowed, no radios unless they were kept down very low, etc. There were complaints of course, they were kids. But I don’t recall any complaints about the space, or lack of it. We could easily seat four at the dinette and play cards or board games. In the daytime we were mainly outside and only ate and slept in TT unless the weather was bad.
We once made a 4,000 mile tenting trip in a 1973 Bronco, if you have any idea of what that looks like. Me, the DW, two teenage boys, and a five year old boy. And the back had two grub boxes, my tent and the rest of my gear. It took a contortionist to get in the back and that’s where the two teenagers traveled. They suffered no ill effects whatsoever, but when we get together we still chuckle about that trip.
Since the boys have gone we have traveled a lot with our two granddaughters. They’re good campers and the youngest one is as hard core as my boys ever were. Again no complaints about space. The only difference is they “need” so many more clothes and extraneous gear than the boys that I have to put in the TV bed to avoid being pushed out of the TT. So I guess to answer your question directly, 16’ would suffice for my family of four.
But we were “campers “and didn’t live in the TT, it was sort of a hard sided tent. No TV’s allowed, no radios unless they were kept down very low, etc. There were complaints of course, they were kids. But I don’t recall any complaints about the space, or lack of it. We could easily seat four at the dinette and play cards or board games. In the daytime we were mainly outside and only ate and slept in TT unless the weather was bad.
We once made a 4,000 mile tenting trip in a 1973 Bronco, if you have any idea of what that looks like. Me, the DW, two teenage boys, and a five year old boy. And the back had two grub boxes, my tent and the rest of my gear. It took a contortionist to get in the back and that’s where the two teenagers traveled. They suffered no ill effects whatsoever, but when we get together we still chuckle about that trip.
Since the boys have gone we have traveled a lot with our two granddaughters. They’re good campers and the youngest one is as hard core as my boys ever were. Again no complaints about space. The only difference is they “need” so many more clothes and extraneous gear than the boys that I have to put in the TV bed to avoid being pushed out of the TT. So I guess to answer your question directly, 16’ would suffice for my family of four.
