Wow Pop Ups are expensive!

Mike Up wrote:
The Rockwood Freedom 2280 with shower, toilet, Air Conditioner is $11,400 which is way overpriced. I was expecting no more than $9,800 for all of it.

Not to be critical Mike but it seems to me you're looking just at the short term as in the long run there's just no way a popup won't be far more cost effective than any travel trailer. Heck, I even designed my own inside shower for our Santa Fe, installed my own A/C, camped at least a couple hundred nights and towed it tens of thousands of miles over the course of the 6 years we owned it and after all that still got back half of what I originally paid for it. :B Eventually selling it was only because I got tired of having to still fool around with tenting, otherwise it worked just fine as our home away from home, no matter where we went or in what weather, and certainly our total costs were a fraction of what they've been since owning a variety of travel trailers. Maintenance costs were far less, ongoing ownership costs such as fuel when towing were far less, and I could store it inside my heated workshop. Even if the capital cost for a suitable popup is the same as a small travel trailer you'd still be miles ahead on overall costs with the popup, with the only thing the same probably being the cost to rent a campsite. Based on dollars and cents alone there's just no way a popup isn't a significantly less costly way to camp than with any travel trailer, the catch being you just need to be able to put up with all the vagaries of a trailer with tenting. ;)