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RoyB
Mar 18, 2014Explorer II
I think your new trailer size is going to be just about the right size - maybe just a tad too large. I almost went to that size with the JAYCO X213 trailer a few years back.
Still running the roads and trails with my OFF-ROAD POPUP.
We like to hit the camping off the power grid for most of our camping and do see TTs there as well around your trailer size. having hard walls does have it advantages I guess...
Wife woke me up on one camping trip saying there a bear outside. SO I get up and grab my handy flashlight and wasp spray can and did a walk aorund the trailer. Sure enough I hear the same noise the wife heard. I went to where the noise was coming from and it ended up being a neighbor POPUP camping snoring real loud in his tent bed...
For us however the trade off for hard walls just never out-weighed the great gas mileage we get with our POPUP setup. Hard to give up 20+ MPH we see on our 2010 F150 pulling our 2400lb OFF ROAD POPUP. We make the 459 mile trip from here in Northern Neck VA to Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mtns on one tank of gas. We can go anywhere our 4WD tuck will take which fits into our camping lifestyles from back in the 50s and 60s in our Arizona days...
Happy trails to you... Do some good mtn stream fishing for me as well...
Roy Ken
Still running the roads and trails with my OFF-ROAD POPUP.
We like to hit the camping off the power grid for most of our camping and do see TTs there as well around your trailer size. having hard walls does have it advantages I guess...
Wife woke me up on one camping trip saying there a bear outside. SO I get up and grab my handy flashlight and wasp spray can and did a walk aorund the trailer. Sure enough I hear the same noise the wife heard. I went to where the noise was coming from and it ended up being a neighbor POPUP camping snoring real loud in his tent bed...
For us however the trade off for hard walls just never out-weighed the great gas mileage we get with our POPUP setup. Hard to give up 20+ MPH we see on our 2010 F150 pulling our 2400lb OFF ROAD POPUP. We make the 459 mile trip from here in Northern Neck VA to Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mtns on one tank of gas. We can go anywhere our 4WD tuck will take which fits into our camping lifestyles from back in the 50s and 60s in our Arizona days...
Happy trails to you... Do some good mtn stream fishing for me as well...
Roy Ken
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