ENTRY LEVEL?

JBarca wrote:

As far as entry level, I started with a back pack and 50# in it. That is how I entered camping. I considered myself on top of the world going to places located in God's country in the wilderness with hiking stick or a paddle in my hand. We now haul 10,000# of camper and "stuff" and still go camping in God's country just the trail is little more paved. You will never find one stitch of trash or messed up campsite where we have camped due to respect for nature and my fellow camper. As far as the neighbor next to me, they can be in a 1960 VW camper bus with a peace sign on it or triple slide tag axle diesel pusher and I'll invite them over for campfire. How ever you entered camping, good for you. The world would be a better place if we all went camping and respected each other like we should.

Camp on!

Though my parents had a 29' Wilderness growing up, I always considered Rv'ing old person camping. To me "real" camping was carrying everything you needed on your back and being at least 10 miles from the nearest road. Though I still dust the backpack off a couple times a year, having kids changed my tune a bit. We did the tent thing for a while but with kids it's just too much work. A couple of years ago we bought a 19 footer and just this month we upgraded to a 26' foot "entry level" trailer. But a little piece of me still feels like a sell out. lol. I guess 32 years old is the proper time to do "old person" camping!

In all seriousness though, buying the RV was one of our best purchases. We used to go out with the family a couple of times a year, but last year we went 12 times and the kids loved it and they sure didn't care that we didn't have Corian. Buy what makes you happy as far as I'm concerned. I have found that the size or price of a rig is in no way connected to the niceness of the people.