Camping & Rving picture thread

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by gizmo980

Beautiful! So you take your cats RVing? That's awesome. I have 2 dogs + 3 cats, so that might be a bit much... but maybe in the future if I have fewer, we can all go RVing together. How do they handle the whole situation? My biggest concern would be if they ran off, and I couldn't find them. They're savvy with going outside, but only in our own territory thus far.

I've been traveling full-time in my van for about three years now. Friends of mine have two cats. One doesn't like to be out of the van at all. The other one wants to be outside when "dad" is outside. They have a small cat tent to keep him safe.

[heySkippy]

Originally Posted by gizmo980

Beautiful! So you take your cats RVing? That's awesome.

Yes! Much has happened since that post. In a nutshell, we sold our Florida home and the 4 of us are now living in the camper in the mountains in Virginia. I've got a thread in the Retirement forum with details but the bottom line is we wanted to escape the heat, so here we are. We are actively looking for a house up this way.

We just left a campground today after 5 weeks and moved west about 100 miles. We're going to travel around and stay a week(s) at a time and look at houses. If it gets too cold, we'll go south and come back in the spring.





There's no hurry. We're pretty good at this by now.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by JewellCityJoe

Occasionally I see a solution to a problem I hadn't considered much less thought someone would come up with a creative and working answer ....

In this case the trailer is a pickup truck bed and the Slide In can travel in it much like a RV trailer.
http://vanconversion.homestead.com/P...ler_Camper.jpg

As a CDL driver, and witnessed many camper accidents, ... this looks seriously dangerous!

A very low tandem axle trailer might help a lot, but overhead campers are very top heavy and not well load balanced, and that pic is NOT gonna have the brakes or equalizer hitch to safely carry an overhead camper at highway speeds..

My similar solution is quite acceptable (and safe), but is NOT a FSC camper..

I Use my 'Snowbear' Utility trailer with a Toyota camper shell (Cap) that is hinged for easy space / access, similar to a pop-up tent trailer but only $400, and much lighter (behind my 52 mpg Passat TDI wagon that goes 1200 miles between fills). Sometimes it also hauls my Genset welder, and often logs / firewood. It tips for driving my small tractor / mower, it tows beautifully. (I also used it as a hearse to haul my dad's body / casket 2500 miles to bury). I'm building an extended tongue for 24' long loads... rebar, irrigation pipe, trusses, beams, steel pipe...) $400 used (Buy the version sold at Costco (2200#) vs the Home Depot version (1600#)