How did you begin this hobby?
I started a blog to write articles about our adventures and decided to start back at the beginning. The beginning is always a good place to start. Attached is my article on how we got started. ...
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I began camping in a Pop Up years ago with my parents. They split and so did the pop up.
Later my Dad bought a used Shasta and fixed up.
It had a working toilet and shower (which he never let me use), use a water system pressurized with an air pump, and used 120VAC lighting and propane gas lighting inside the camper. Had a really nice stove and oven and a standard 120VAC compressor refrigerator.
We used that camper for years and went everywhere in it. My dad, step mom, step brother, and step sister.
Later years, I went to tent camping and loved it. Camped for a few years with just tents.
Later I found setup and tear down a bit inconvenient so I wanted a trailer and went with a basic 2005 Rockwood 2290.
No water heater, no shower, no toilet. It had porta potty, AC, refrigerator, furnace and 20 gallons of water through an electric pump to a faucet on the galley. Did a lot of camping in it and loved those times. Didn't love the many, many times it was in for warranty work.
Later went to a Starcraft pop up with inside toilet/shower.
Loved the floorplan but not the U-Dinette. Wish it had a traditional dinette for 'more' room. Trailer was great, reliable but Aqualon tent loved to leak through every seam even after being wetted, sealed, and resealed. Replaced tenting and moved up to a TT.
Got my Jay Flight 19BH and loved it.
Had issues but Jayco finally fixed them all after shoddy work from small none local dealer. We went many many places in this and loved it. Unfortunately it got hailed damage but that may have been for the better. The damage was only cosmetic yet insurance check helped put us into the 26BH.
The Jay Flight 26BH is EXACTLY the same floorplan as the Jay Flight 19BH but with an additional front queen bedroom.
We had an addition to the family so the 26BH offered another sleeping area and much more storage cabinet and exterior storage. We just love the 26BH. This is definitely a keeper for our family of 4 and a guest many times. Large, roomy, comfortable, and fully of luxury items. I just don't like it's larger footprint and the inability to get into spots the 19BH and pop ups were able to fit.
I do miss pop ups but they are so over priced today in comparison to full featured travel trailers as my 26BH, I don't think I'll ever buy another. I worry about used pop ups, seeing many older pop up lift systems fail. I don't want to be that person.
So I do the best of both worlds, camp with the family in the 26BH and camp by myself or with buddies in my 2 Eureka Tetragon 9 tents.
Later my Dad bought a used Shasta and fixed up.
It had a working toilet and shower (which he never let me use), use a water system pressurized with an air pump, and used 120VAC lighting and propane gas lighting inside the camper. Had a really nice stove and oven and a standard 120VAC compressor refrigerator.
We used that camper for years and went everywhere in it. My dad, step mom, step brother, and step sister.
Later years, I went to tent camping and loved it. Camped for a few years with just tents.
Later I found setup and tear down a bit inconvenient so I wanted a trailer and went with a basic 2005 Rockwood 2290.
No water heater, no shower, no toilet. It had porta potty, AC, refrigerator, furnace and 20 gallons of water through an electric pump to a faucet on the galley. Did a lot of camping in it and loved those times. Didn't love the many, many times it was in for warranty work.
Later went to a Starcraft pop up with inside toilet/shower.
Loved the floorplan but not the U-Dinette. Wish it had a traditional dinette for 'more' room. Trailer was great, reliable but Aqualon tent loved to leak through every seam even after being wetted, sealed, and resealed. Replaced tenting and moved up to a TT.
Got my Jay Flight 19BH and loved it.
Had issues but Jayco finally fixed them all after shoddy work from small none local dealer. We went many many places in this and loved it. Unfortunately it got hailed damage but that may have been for the better. The damage was only cosmetic yet insurance check helped put us into the 26BH.
The Jay Flight 26BH is EXACTLY the same floorplan as the Jay Flight 19BH but with an additional front queen bedroom.
We had an addition to the family so the 26BH offered another sleeping area and much more storage cabinet and exterior storage. We just love the 26BH. This is definitely a keeper for our family of 4 and a guest many times. Large, roomy, comfortable, and fully of luxury items. I just don't like it's larger footprint and the inability to get into spots the 19BH and pop ups were able to fit.
I do miss pop ups but they are so over priced today in comparison to full featured travel trailers as my 26BH, I don't think I'll ever buy another. I worry about used pop ups, seeing many older pop up lift systems fail. I don't want to be that person.
So I do the best of both worlds, camp with the family in the 26BH and camp by myself or with buddies in my 2 Eureka Tetragon 9 tents.
