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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