Why do people have such large trailers?
the simple answer is BECAUSE THEY CAN or WANT. I have a small 19' trailer that will sleep 5. You certainly aren't going to dance in there. My house is way more comfortable than my trailer so when i ...
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On the outside looking in now, since we're trailerless. I admit, I've wondered the same thing. We tent camped when our 2 boys were young. After boats, we went back to camping with a hybrid, ROO 23SS, box was just over 20'. We loved it, had plenty of room for just the two of us and occasional guests. We liked the coziness of it when we did have to spend time indoors due to weather, etc. When we felt we needed to make a change strictly for age/health issues, we moved to a 26' and it felt like a mansion. We did love it, but likely would have loved a size similar to our ROO...actually the ROO was about 30' with both bunkends opened, so technically, we downsized. Life changes are bringing a major move and that included saying goodbye to Rocky.
I suppose if a family has several children or maybe just a couple but they like to bring friends a larger trailer with a bunkhouse suits their needs more than some other styles. For sure I would not enjoy making up a sofa and dinette every night. For 2 people, I cannot understand the want or need for 35'of trailer. Fulltimers are a totally different situation. But living literally alongside I-40 I see monster trucks towing monster trailers and wonder why so much room. Sort of the McMansions the housing market went through a few years ago.
My cousin started with an Outback and loved it, but decided he needed to upgrade to a Class A, then soon a bigger one, a year or so later another bigger Class A and now they have a truly beautiful Class A that sits in their specially built garage because they can't fit in the places they'd like to go. Narrow roads, overhanging trees, tight curves in the campground, even sites that say 60'in length don't allow for maneuvering into one. They take a couple of trips a year. His DW is NOT happy, in fact is truly very unhappy that they can't get out and enjoy their retirement time. My DC has a pride issue and would not admit it if his life depended on it, yet comments that he'd like to go here or there, but doesn't.
We have had guests for a weekend that packed enough for a 2 week trip. Hey!, we're camping...you can wear the same pair of jeans or shorts twice if you need to. We had a rule, actually my rule just because I could get away with it, that we could take what fit in a certain size laundry basket that fit on a particular shelf and if it didn't fit, it didn't go. We never ran out of clothes other than on a very long trip and that's what laundries are for. We always, even in the ROO, had a good supply in our pantry and "in case" food for when we planned to grill out but the monsoon blew through and messed up our plans.
I don't get it, didn't get it when we were campers and likely will never get it. We camped for togetherness. But to each his own.
I suppose if a family has several children or maybe just a couple but they like to bring friends a larger trailer with a bunkhouse suits their needs more than some other styles. For sure I would not enjoy making up a sofa and dinette every night. For 2 people, I cannot understand the want or need for 35'of trailer. Fulltimers are a totally different situation. But living literally alongside I-40 I see monster trucks towing monster trailers and wonder why so much room. Sort of the McMansions the housing market went through a few years ago.
My cousin started with an Outback and loved it, but decided he needed to upgrade to a Class A, then soon a bigger one, a year or so later another bigger Class A and now they have a truly beautiful Class A that sits in their specially built garage because they can't fit in the places they'd like to go. Narrow roads, overhanging trees, tight curves in the campground, even sites that say 60'in length don't allow for maneuvering into one. They take a couple of trips a year. His DW is NOT happy, in fact is truly very unhappy that they can't get out and enjoy their retirement time. My DC has a pride issue and would not admit it if his life depended on it, yet comments that he'd like to go here or there, but doesn't.
We have had guests for a weekend that packed enough for a 2 week trip. Hey!, we're camping...you can wear the same pair of jeans or shorts twice if you need to. We had a rule, actually my rule just because I could get away with it, that we could take what fit in a certain size laundry basket that fit on a particular shelf and if it didn't fit, it didn't go. We never ran out of clothes other than on a very long trip and that's what laundries are for. We always, even in the ROO, had a good supply in our pantry and "in case" food for when we planned to grill out but the monsoon blew through and messed up our plans.
I don't get it, didn't get it when we were campers and likely will never get it. We camped for togetherness. But to each his own.
