Sometimes small systems are plenty

pnichols wrote:
Just as a datapoint on what's possible with a small Class C (although on the E350 chassis in this example) ... here's a 22 foot Itasca Spirit owned by EMD360 and this is a partial quote of his from another thread on how he uses it:

"We love the short length and have taken it on many an AZ dirt road. We use "training wheels" to keep from losing anything underneath although we lost one set of those wheels and the steps on a particularly rocky unpaved road. We do the repairs and go back out again.

We typically go from 3 to 10 miles off the paved roads to find seclusion and have never tried to tow."

Soo ... a TC may not be required for adventures offroad while still maintaining superior comfort, room, and stability. Here's a photo of a typical road we sometimes find ourselves on with our 24 foot Itasca Spirit:

Nice picture! I'm not sure a 24ft MH has appreciably more room than an Eagle Cap 1165. Probably more storage though. Also, can't tow my horse trailer with most Class C's. I looked. Was VERY hard to find a 5000 lb tow rating on one and none of the new one's I saw had that capability. DW would never give that up (and why should she). With a TC and a F550, I can tow 14,000 lbs. There's a lot of flexibility there. I can pretty much do what I do now and then some. Even if my MH was fully loaded to GVWR, it has 5500 lbs between that and its GCWR. It can, and has, easily towed our horse trailer. Towing the horse trailer is a requirement.