Dropped it off at the dealer, they said possibly a slide might not be on track correctly. Anyway they are checking it out. Hopefully not too major

 

I calculate 3% loss with 6 gauge, 4.7% w/ 8 ga, 7.4%
With 10 gauge for 110 feet. NEC limit is 5%, so guess 8 gauge might do...

 

No offense intended everyone but ever since I bought my Excursion and started down the path to FTE brotherhood I've become really curious what you do when you go camping with a travel trailer? I know it probably sounds like a dumb question but I honestly can't figure it out. I've been "tent" camping out in the wilderness my whole life and I get that part. It's about building a fire, enjoying nature, hiking to new places, the thrill of climbing into your sleeping bag on a chilly fall night after cooking your catch on an open fire...

Some of you have travel trailers that are bigger than my first house and what I don't get is what you do when you get to a campground? Plug into the "service" or run the generator while watching satellite TV...?

I'm not criticizing because I can't express to you how much I DESPERATELY WANT a 1960's ~25" AirStream that's been completely upgraded inside but looks 100% original on the outside with a freakin' awesome polish job!

I REALLY want one but I'm convinced it'll sit on the back of my drive and become a "play house" for my kids...

Any help you can provide to uncovering this mystery for me would be greatly appreciated!

P.S.
2 of my neighbors have class A motorhomes so I suspect it's a symptom of keeping up with the Jones' but I haven't had the nerve to ask them what they do when they "camp" in a portable house with wheels! The anonymity of the internet is much more appealing here...

 

It's not as much about camping, because it's not! What that is called is RVing, which Is about getting away and spending time with family. Some wives may not want to stay in a tent, I know a few! I know I enjoy getting up and cooking breakfast. Some here have so many kids it actually is cheaper than getting a few motels if they want to travel. I've done it all from tent to sleeping in the back of a truck to travel trailer. I enjoy it all! So the word camping is used because it rolls off the tongue better than RVing. Nothing camping about it!

 

It's nice to hang out at campgrounds, the people are so friendly and everyone is sitting outside. At hotels everyone stays to themselves and in their room with the tv on. You also sleep in your own bed and not where some weirdo just watched youporn on his computer.

I also tent camp, but rving is more of a vacation. Going full timing in t-minus 3 months so i'd better like it haha.

 

I would stay in a tent IF:

I didn't have kids.
It never rained.
If bears were the size of frogs.
If the tent had a toilet.
If the tent had a table to eat at in the morning.
If the tent had a closet for cloths.
If the tent had storage for pots, pans, dishes, toys, food, drinks, a fridge and freezer, water, etc.
If the tent had heat when the nights get down to 30 degrees.
And other stuff I am forgetting right now.

I have stayed in a tent more than a few times when I was younger. The big deal is the kids, it is near impossible to stay in tents with young kids. Plus the bears, the bears like tents.

 

Ditto to what's been said above about RV camping. Plus, the older I get the less interested I am in working that hard to pack all the stuff needed to tent camp and dealing with the weather when it's less than ideal. I certainly see the merits of it, but I guess you can say I am too addicted to the comforts to want to tent camp anymore. I really like being able to throw some food and clothes in the trailer, hook up and go. I don't have a generator or a TV, and almost never go to a place with full hookups.

I have a few friends who can't at all understand the point. (We could be doing this in the back yard!) I can't explain it to them adequately, but I just like to go.

 

We typically tent camp. My boys have been camping with me since - well before they were born... I admit, we did choose our weather carefully with the babies - but there were plenty of trips with 'day cribs' back in the day. I also admit we have been cold, hot, bug bitten, tired, wet, etc over the years, however those were the most memorable trips. I figure as long as there are no permanent injuries, we'll be just fine - besides, I always say the kids will need something to tell their therapists later in life!! (Dad tortured us in the woods...) In all seriousness, we enjoy the serenity of primitive camping, exploring new places, specifically going where there are no other campers and the process of setting up camp and building a fire and cooking fresh catch is where its at for us!!

That said, I live in an RV when I'm working out of town. Yes, it probably is bigger than my first apartment - but it literally is 'home away from home'. So we do take this 'RV'ing' and often just go a few miles from home for a weekend. WHY? Because I have sooooo much to do at home that I do not relax well when I'm there. We can load up the RV with nothing but groceries and clean clothes (everything else is already in there) and be 'camping' in 30min. Then, I can sleep on a comfy bed with climate control and a stove, oven, refrigerator - and yes, cable TV if I want it. There are also places I like to go where its just toooo damn hot to sleep outside, so the RV makes it possible to get away in nearly any weather.

Bears aren't too much of a problem around here!!

 

Completely agree with everyone else's comments. I keep my trailer at my house. Spur of the moment I can load up clothes and food and go. Families that play together stay together. With two adults, two kids with one being a teen, and two boxers the Excursion is the perfect size for extended travels that we take. We have currently been on vacation for 3 weeks. Can't imagine that in a tent or hotel.

 

Couple pics from our trip to play in the sand this weekend!!

 

Two trailers, how do you do that?

 

I wasn't too excited about it at first, but it towed and handled very well. I use to pull our boat behind a 5er, but never wanted to do it with a bumper pull.

If I get myself a new pickup this fall I will begin the search for a 5er toyhauler!!

 

Love the sarcasm Snow. Your sig pic is a give away though. LOL.

 

My ex barely has the power to pull my travel trailer, much less another

 

Thats like "The question" it seems everyone asks when they see you pulling two trailers.

First time I did it when I was pulling up to my camp sight a group of people started yelling and one guy was running at me holding a beer. Scared the **** out of me! I thought I ran someone over or something the way they were yelling. Guy runs up to the window and says "What do you have to do to pull two trailers?"...