The adaptation of a Ford F-250 pickup truck gave the archetypical model of the American camper.
Euros often favor caravans which they trail behind a car when they go on holiday but this camper changed how Americans go camping / traveling. There must be countless thousands of these vehicles still rolling about America even now after it was introduced fifty or so years ago.
These days many of the big shots don't travel without a private bus the size of a Greyhound but most of us don't have a megabuck for the bus or the immense amount of fuel needed to keep it on the road. There's still a demand for a reasonable camper which won't break your back financially.
Cadillac Man and I were talking last night and he's considering the Big Bail in which he steps away from suburban living. That looks great on the retirement flowchart but translating the symbol on paper to an action plan is where it gets interesting or intimidating depending on your vibe. Before doing such a thing it's a shriek in the dark night because I'll be flying without a parachute, man.
C.M. said a camper like this may be his future home and why not. It's not big enough for shower facilities but who even pretends to shower every day when you're on the road anyway. The camper does have hook-ups for connecting at a camping site such as at KOA. Those permit electric and water which is hardly making like Davy Crockett but it's not too bad. The KOA will also have showers so you can go for however long you like and stop at a KOA every so often to clean up and maybe even socialize a bit since campers do love to socialize.
Something unusual about these types of vehicles is having so much over your head. They're not tall enough to get whacked when you drive under railway bridges but don't even think of taking one near a covered garage so that means you will have a pesky time parking it. You won't be going through a drive-through for a fast food store. The considerations are relatively minor but they're still annoying until you become accustomed to doing some things differently.
There's a premium size blast in knowing if I want to live somewhere else today then I'll just drive to that place. For Winter, make like a snowbird who drives instead of flies and head South.
There's no live move in play just now and there should be some interesting talk over how to pull it off. More to come for sure on camping in the new millennium. My personal favorite was a Mercedes Sprinter (mine had a Dodge name plate for some twisted reason). I know a new 'camperized' Sprinter will run sixty grand or more but they look luxy.
So many possibilities but the bigger the bus the fewer they get. That original camper was a size which meant it could go just about anywhere.
Euros often favor caravans which they trail behind a car when they go on holiday but this camper changed how Americans go camping / traveling. There must be countless thousands of these vehicles still rolling about America even now after it was introduced fifty or so years ago.
These days many of the big shots don't travel without a private bus the size of a Greyhound but most of us don't have a megabuck for the bus or the immense amount of fuel needed to keep it on the road. There's still a demand for a reasonable camper which won't break your back financially.
Cadillac Man and I were talking last night and he's considering the Big Bail in which he steps away from suburban living. That looks great on the retirement flowchart but translating the symbol on paper to an action plan is where it gets interesting or intimidating depending on your vibe. Before doing such a thing it's a shriek in the dark night because I'll be flying without a parachute, man.
C.M. said a camper like this may be his future home and why not. It's not big enough for shower facilities but who even pretends to shower every day when you're on the road anyway. The camper does have hook-ups for connecting at a camping site such as at KOA. Those permit electric and water which is hardly making like Davy Crockett but it's not too bad. The KOA will also have showers so you can go for however long you like and stop at a KOA every so often to clean up and maybe even socialize a bit since campers do love to socialize.
Something unusual about these types of vehicles is having so much over your head. They're not tall enough to get whacked when you drive under railway bridges but don't even think of taking one near a covered garage so that means you will have a pesky time parking it. You won't be going through a drive-through for a fast food store. The considerations are relatively minor but they're still annoying until you become accustomed to doing some things differently.
There's a premium size blast in knowing if I want to live somewhere else today then I'll just drive to that place. For Winter, make like a snowbird who drives instead of flies and head South.
There's no live move in play just now and there should be some interesting talk over how to pull it off. More to come for sure on camping in the new millennium. My personal favorite was a Mercedes Sprinter (mine had a Dodge name plate for some twisted reason). I know a new 'camperized' Sprinter will run sixty grand or more but they look luxy.
So many possibilities but the bigger the bus the fewer they get. That original camper was a size which meant it could go just about anywhere.
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