Monday, February 11, 2013

Does Size Matter?

Above the complete answer to all your travel problems,  a Teardrop Camper.
 
In the current era The Kadizzles spend about half their life either on a sailboat or in our camper. Both have a lot in common. Everyone who has ever been involved with either knows there is a magic dilemma. If you get a larger camper, or sailboat you have more room and more creature comforts, but at the same time you create a proportional number of problems.

With both boats and campers the bigger they are the harder they are to maneuver. A small boat or camper will allow you to go places a big one will not. The maintenance head aches multiply exponentially with size. You can take a little camper or boat home and work on it. As your boat or camper gets bigger and you have more invested, you feel compelled to use it.

If your boat is the right size you can put it on a trailer and pick an entire new body of water. That is not practical with a large boat. Small means you can avoid the crowds, and small means you can exist independent of electricity and running water. Small means flexibility.

Like houses, once you get so big with your recreational vehicle you ask, “Now that I have all this room, what shall I do with it?”. One natural tendency is to jam everything you can think of into the big moma. That is why you see some RV's with three flat screen TV's, an outdoor grill, and every imaginable toy. It is not unusual to see a large RV pulling a large trailer. A recent dinger we ran into had a trailer behind his humongous Heffalump. In side the trailer he had room for a full size power boat, a Harley, and a professional drum set with speakers.

The poor fellow with his $500k set up ran out of his time at our campground, and the host told him he had to leave. He pleaded saying he could not “afford” to go anywhere else, and there was no place that had room for his massive collection of crap. Eventually the park police had to explain to him that his toy fatness was his problem and not the Tonto National Forest's problem. Toy chubby grumbled and left.

On the other end of the extreme of course are the people living in their car. They get the best milage for Rving, but they have to unload the car to sleep.

The teardrop camper is a unique little solution to the who travel mess. Basically you pull a doouble bed and a portable kitchen. Everything is enclosed.

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