More TC's in the past?
I ran across these two pictures on the Yellowstone NP website, and it made me wonder: Did more people own truck campers "back in the day" than they do now. Any thoughts on this? http://www.nps.gov...
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Thanks for sharing the photos, Joe.
I wonder who was sleeping in the U-HAUL trailer???
I don't have any hard statistics but I reckon that TC's _appeared_ to be more prevalent in a by-gone time because there weren't so many big RVs - - Class A's, C's and five-wheelers. There are probably just as many TCs as there ever have been but most people getting turned on to RVing, these days, are being seduced by "homes-away-from-home".
I was a tent guy most of my life. I started out in a mountain tent and went to a light-weight cabin tent to entice women to come along ....{shrug}. My wife (ensnared in my mountain tent in Sweden back in 1976) and I were pretty much the last tenters on earth back in 2005 when we decided to have a 6.5 OUTFITTER Caribou built for us. I pretty much suspected that any sense of camping would end in 2006 when we took delivery. That is pretty much how it turned out, too. My wife practically has to pry me out of that Caribou. I just don't want to go outside anymore. Not a feeling I ever experienced in a tent.
Most RVers are impulse buyers that _think_ they are camping. They really have no clue as to what camping is. Even the average TC has become so big and unwieldy as people have demanded more square footage and luxuries in their TC. You practically need a GPS on your belt to find you way around some of those behemoths. It's just a matter of time before we read a news report about some poor TC owner phoning the authorities to send a search party because he is hopelessly lost in his camper.
Clue to RVers: When you are cooking on a full-sized VIKING stove; wiping down your marble countertops; and all the while watching your 60 inch satellite television, it is isn't _camping_, anymore.
Bigger and bigger TC's will be the death-knell of the TC, Joe. The camper part will finally be too big to ever remove from the chassis and we'll just start calling them "Class C's".
I wonder who was sleeping in the U-HAUL trailer???
I don't have any hard statistics but I reckon that TC's _appeared_ to be more prevalent in a by-gone time because there weren't so many big RVs - - Class A's, C's and five-wheelers. There are probably just as many TCs as there ever have been but most people getting turned on to RVing, these days, are being seduced by "homes-away-from-home".
I was a tent guy most of my life. I started out in a mountain tent and went to a light-weight cabin tent to entice women to come along ....{shrug}. My wife (ensnared in my mountain tent in Sweden back in 1976) and I were pretty much the last tenters on earth back in 2005 when we decided to have a 6.5 OUTFITTER Caribou built for us. I pretty much suspected that any sense of camping would end in 2006 when we took delivery. That is pretty much how it turned out, too. My wife practically has to pry me out of that Caribou. I just don't want to go outside anymore. Not a feeling I ever experienced in a tent.
Most RVers are impulse buyers that _think_ they are camping. They really have no clue as to what camping is. Even the average TC has become so big and unwieldy as people have demanded more square footage and luxuries in their TC. You practically need a GPS on your belt to find you way around some of those behemoths. It's just a matter of time before we read a news report about some poor TC owner phoning the authorities to send a search party because he is hopelessly lost in his camper.
Clue to RVers: When you are cooking on a full-sized VIKING stove; wiping down your marble countertops; and all the while watching your 60 inch satellite television, it is isn't _camping_, anymore.
Bigger and bigger TC's will be the death-knell of the TC, Joe. The camper part will finally be too big to ever remove from the chassis and we'll just start calling them "Class C's".
