I thought I would revive this dead thread just long enough to give folks an update. When I started the thread I was curious about peoples experiences of spending longer periods of time living in a truck camper. At the time I started this thread I had plans of living for the better part of a year with my family in a truck camper seeing the USA and Canada. Well we've now been at it since August 28. My wife and I and my two daughters (8 and 11) in a wolf creek 850. I figure we've done a little over 5,000 going from Seattle to southeast Alaska, down thought the Canadian Rockies into Montana, and east to where we are now on the western shore of Lake Michigan north of Green Bay. Here's the blog if your curious
http://www.yeartrip.net.