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[prolandsurveyor]

Just curious to what age where you when you bought your first R.V...I was 27 and bought a pop up...37 now and got a TT

[JamesBr]

I camped as a kid with my family and close friends family. Tent or Pup, but I don't count that as first owned. I tent camped early on with racing or "camped" in the enclosed car trailer (no AC or heat but it was dry and off the ground) when I upgraded from the open trailer.

At 33 I started looking for a shorter class A or C that could haul my open trailer and race car. Then a 2001 DP came up for sale and I found out about it through my circle of friends. I struck a great deal and been smiling ever since. It's a great unit for my time spent at the racetracks, my weekend trips and wonderful for my annual vacation south after the new year (usually FL.)

[JnJnKatiebug]

DW teases me when I am reading this forum. She calls it senior twitter. After reading this thread it is obvious she is wrong.

[Captain_Obvious]

25-bought first pop up tent trailer for $1 - turned it into a flatbed
two weeks later- bought second pop up tent trailer
26-sold pop up trailer and bought run down hard side travel trailer
27-sold run down hard side travel trailer and bought nice new-to-us hard side travel trailer.

As a kid, I stayed in several trailers with extended family as my parents weren't big campers. I always though it would be neat to have a camping trailer, but I never thought I would be able to do it. Now I've had 4 trailers 🙂 and I'm only 28! Our 1 year old daughter already has over 14 nights of camping under her belt.

[stetwood]

Paid cash for used pop-up at age 42 for 3 months of camping, retired at age 58 in the previous decade, bought used 5ver for cash, now looking for smaller 5ver.

[Kalabin]

I had always tent camped as a kid, when I was about 12 my old man picked up a Jayco pop-up trailer and used it until we were in our teens then we stopped camping for a bit. We tent camped next to his 32' Class C and one night it dropped down to about 15 degress. My new wife had enough of that stuff and crawled into my parents Class C and never wanted to tent camp again haha.

At 25 I purchased my first travel trailer, sold that and at 27 purchased the truck camper and looking to convert back into a travel trailer for the space.

[rae10rae]

Because I had camped in my grandparents TT as a kid, I knew that I wanted to camp in a TT of some sort. So at 26 with 2 dogs and the possibility of future kids, we got a hybrid TT. Loved it, but we outgrew it fast, especially once we had a kid! At age 32 we bought the TT in my signature, which we hope to have for at least 10 years.

[atomlinson]

After many years tent camping, we bought a Palomino Mustang pop up 10 years ago. I was 30 at the time. 2 years ago, after saving our Pennies, we purchased the brand new TT in my sig. I miss the pop up at times, but would never go back to one. We sure had some great times in it though!

[6_7_tow_rig]

Both my wife and I were 25 when we bought our new 27' Wildwood in 2006. Sold it last year and bought our TT in my signature.

[NC_Hauler]

Used my dads old popup some before going into the military in 71, but purchased our first brand new popup Cox camper in 1975 shortly before I turned 25 yrs of age

[gwalter]

Pickup camper at 25
24' TT at 32
Tent at 40 (kids in HS & College)
29' 5th Wheel at 50
38' 5th at 60

[CamperWill]

We bought our popup when we were 22 then upgraded to a TT at 23.

[beermanjoe]

At 43 the wife and I decided we were going to try camping with a tt. Never camped much as an adult. So we decided it was time to get the teenage daughter and ourselves outside. The daughter wasn`t real impressed with this idea. No internet are you kidding me.This is going to be our 3rd season in our tt and she can`t wait to get back and see her camping friends. We`re hooked!

[JoshInReno]

Tents as a teen and early 20s.
Bought a small TT at 25. Didn't have a proper TV then - sold it.
Bought another smaller TT at 28. Bought a proper TV. Used it, learned a lot, then sold it. We outgrew it too fast.
Bought fifth wheel at 29. Learning every day and enjoying it more. Got about 30 nights in over the last year and a half.

Now that the kids are starting to get bigger, our 23 foot fifth wheel is starting to get pretty small. Probably upgrading to 30 or 35 foot in the next couple of years. Our small fifth wheel has been very good to us and has been a great size to test the waters in before committing to something bigger and heavier. When the time comes, I might park this one at our hunting property so I don't have to tow it up there every time we go and keep the new one at our house.

I turn 31 this year and my wife turns 30. We hope we have many, many more years of camping in us.

Everything has been paid for cash.

[wborst]

Bought our first RV (in sig) at age 59. I sure wish we had done it years ago. :B

[pf32450]

Started tent camping in early 20's with our two kids. Late 50's bought our 1st camper a new 2007 Fleetwood Pop-Up. Early 60's bought our 1st travel trailer a 2010 27' Dutchmen Classic. Now it is the grandchildren that go camping with us.