I like your idea of going for the shorter trailer - I would even say maybe 26-feet would be my maximum length.
You can go anywhere with the these sizes - tow with smaller trucks like the F150 and they will have all the modern appliances in them. This will make you spend more time outside the trailer maybe haha...
I know the move around space in my OFF-RoAD POPUP is pretty small but we don't do without anything we need to have a great time.
My POPUP has another great feature in these high gasoline cost days and that is my F150 truck gets about the same 18-20MPG whether it is pulling my OFF-ROAD POPUP or not. That is a big money saving for trips. One tank gives me 450 miles down the road easy. The POPUPs don't have any wind loading behind the truck and that is what makes them great for gas mileage...
The downside of course everyone seems to want to bring everything they own in their life with them and pay all the extra maintenance, licensing, insurance, and fees to drive their 40-footer plus Diesel Pusher home on wheels. If you can afford that then go for it...
We have a great time in our somewhat small footprint trailer setup and have traveled all over the East Coast and southern states and as far West as Okla in our OFF-RoaD POPUP. We can live off our batteries and do all things we do at regular camp sites with the exception of Air Conditioning and high wattage Microwave use with our OFF-ROAD POPUP and can stay out a couple of weeks with no problems at all... Our off-road camping plan is do all these things we want to do in an one day/night run off the batteries and then recharge our batteries everyday for three hours using smart mode charging techniques.
This works out great for us...
Roy Ken
My Posts are IMHO based on my experiences - Words in CAPS does not mean I am shouting
Roy - Carolyn
RETIRED DOAF/DON/DOD/CONTR RADIO TECH (42yrs)
K9PHT (Since 1957) 146.52M
2010 F150, 5.4,3:73 Gears,SCab
2008 Starcraft 14RT EU2000i GEN
2005 Flagstaff 8528RESS