I hope I'm barking up the right tree

KillerIsMe wrote:
I might just have to give it a go. 61 years old, daughter is 10, wife says YOLO and I have to agree. I can't really afford (actually I CAN afford - I just don't want to) to buy a big new Titan, or F150, or whatever. My best friend died last year at 60 - never got to do some of the things he always wanted to do. Played it safe. I don't want to end up doing the same thing over a stupid travel trailer and something as trivial as a Nissan Frontier. What did it cost me - $25000? I don't think it's worth it for me to spend the next however many years agonizing over whether or not my truck will pull a travel trailer. If it won't it won't. I'll know by the end of this Summer and if it's a fail, well it's a fail. I'll look around for a big beater to pull it and call it a lesson learned. No matter what, it won't define my life.

That's what finally got me to buy my trailer, knowing that my 15 year old son wouldn't be around to camp with us for much longer I stopped fretting the cost and figured I'd try it with the minivan and figure out my tow situation if I didn't like using it despite technically being within all ratings. It didn't take more than driving the trailer home for me to realize there was no way I was trying that cross country, luckily you're probably in a much better place than I was given it's a real truck. My plan was to get a midsized pickup to replace my aging commuter car but then a overly concerned grandfather decided to buy the family the TV in my signature, it does a great job of towing my light little trailer but it's got so many compromises I never would have bought it myself.