switching from tent camping to 5th wheel

Tibbs54 wrote:
Thanks for your thoughts! I have no concerns about giving up tent camping as far as overall comfort goes. I just am not sure what kind of campsites I can get in to with a 28' FW. We are keeping it smallish, (but big enough for nice amenities) so that we will have a larger selection of campsites to choose from. Just hoping that we can still find some sites that give us some distance from our neighbors and some natural surroundings to enjoy. I still remember visiting my in-laws who were camping in their FW in Estes Park - but they were in an RV park and it felt so.....well....not like camping at all. I think they had a little bit of grass and a tree. I really appreciate the feedback I'm getting from you all who are living it. I'm still just trying to imagine it. Thanks!!:)

We use to camp in a large meadow near Cuba, NM. It was actually in the Jemez Mountains but you went through Cuba to get there. We would go with 2 or 3 other couples and their kids or grandkids.

We would park in a huge circle and make a big fire pit in the middle. We called it "circling the wagons". There was no other campers near us, as we preferred to dry camp most of the time.

We would run our generators on and off during the day to keep the batteries charged until morning. We are not a rowdy group, just didn't care for crowded camp grounds. The experience was something I'll never forget.

I'd still have my 5er but the wife just didn't enjoy camping and the daughter got older and didn't want to go anymore. Looking back, I should have kept it for me and my grandson. But then again, I'm still relatively young at 51 and he's only 12 so we still have a lot more time and I still have the truck. There were other factors though, including off site storage expense. We'll see.....