Truck Camper Models with 3 Beds?
Please note: By 3 beds I mean 3 places to sleep like the dinette and a bunk or the couch counting as a bed. Hi. We are in a position to upgrade since our 2002 F350 SRW was stolen. As a SRW we di...
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Grit dog wrote:
Whoa! Lol
You camp somewhere you don’t trust your kids safety being in a tent (not really a tent, more of a popup camper) or just a helicopter dad?
I can think of pros and cons to the tip outs but ….not life safety.
I doubt my kids, who operate power tools, ride 4 wheelers, or regularly climb on top of the roof of our house would call me a helicopter dad, but yep, we often did camp places where I would no more put my kids in a tent or popup than hand them to strangers on the side of the road. Wal-Marts come to mind. We stopped all the time in the backlots and parked overnight.
Some were in great shape, but not all. A determined attackers could have no doubt gotten in the hardside, but I'd have at least had a bit more warning to respond.
I don't think they were too keen on being in a tent either, and my wife made it clear she did not feel safe with the tent option. And, that, folks, trumps all the other reasons.
The model was a OK117TNT, as I recall, and differs from the OK117DBL only in the back is a fold down tent, and not a slide. We had the opportunity to take delivery of one off the lot in 2006 in Tennessee, which would have been SO convenient and we were so excited to get going on our journey in TC-land. But, there was no discussion about it. We ordered the hard slide 117DBL and drove all the way home to IA and back to TN months later to pick it up.
