the hunt begins

you know truck camper pricing is kinda funny between the US and Canada.  so in salem there is a used 2023 901sb for sale for 40858.00  here the price is 39900.00 but lets do the conversion, so right now that salem rv would cost me 56775.05 US.  there is no incentive for a Canadian to go south of the boarder to find a rv right now, especialy with truck campers which seem to be more expensive in the US than in Canada. It would probably be a very good idea for you guys to shop up here with the exchange rate that canadian sold one would cost you 28712.24 

they are quite popular, mind you I kinda live in a hub city, there are three ways to get to Alberta from the coast and two of them pass through my city so I see a large amount of trafic.  but ya I see quite a few truck campers.  a lot of it is probably because alot of our camp sites are not accessable to larger trailers, which is why we decided to try a truck camper, oh and to cut down on the ferry costs...  its over 850.00 cdn, round trip, for me to take my 5th wheel accross to vancouver Island to visit friends and camp a bit.  but the truck camper is about 200 bucks.  

ya Adventurer is built in the US but still a canadian company.  so its a hybred haha.  I ruled out artic fox, to heavy, and expensive for what you get, the side walls are only about r10, the roof in the middle is good but the edges are the same or less than the walls and the basment is very low and uses fiberglass pink for insulation.  I do like the 856 layout though, but its heavy for its size.  

lance there are no dealers here that I can find, and you don't see many on the road and I don't realy put them in the catagory of AF, NL, bigfoot, adventurer, I kind of put them in the old adventurer class when the adventurer was a mid teir truck camper instead of a top teir for the company.  eagle cap use to be the top teir in the day, but that was discontinued and the adventurer because their top teir when they moved from Canada to the new manufacturing plant in Yakima, Washington in 2008.  they did a bunch of process retooling and changes to the construction methods.  now the eagle cap is just a limited edition they put out once and a while.  host, they are just to big and heavy and expensive from what I have seen.  I have been closit looking for a couple years now, and when you concider the adventurer has a higher insulation rating than bigfoot and Northern light (yes the clam shell makes resealing easier) but with my camping well into freezing levels, I want that insulation factor.  its funny, the one we went and looked at a couple weeks ago, was running getting ready for its PDI as it was sold, it was -8C that day (17.6F) and it was toasty warm, even in the bathroom haha