Looking at buying a camper

That's why I bought the popup, at least you're not sleeping on the ground and have a little room on crappy days, nothing is worse than cramped kids.

One time I did tent camp at disney world in august. that was cool we duct taped a room airconditoner to the window.

 

two or three days sleeping on an air mattress is roughing .......just gettcha a popup.............they do look nice in the yard the remainder of the time.

hope the boys enjoy camping

 

It will either be a popup or a small travel trailer. It all depends on whether I find a small used travel trailer I like for a good price. If I do not I will probably buy a new popup.

 

I have a 31 foot airstream I would rent to you, but you'd need a real truck.

 

I can not afford a seperate tow vehicle from my daily driver. I do not think riding around in a one ton truck with a big block is really an option. Besides I am so far upside down on the Xterra that I could not trade it if I wanted to.

What do you pull it with?

 

teeth

 

It's perma-parked in Cherokee at the moment, but before that, I pulled it with a 3/4 ton 87 GMC Sierra with a 350, oil cooler, trans cooler, and all the towing shit added on.

 

How did that 350 do towing up to Cherokee? Struggle going over Black Mountain? I would have expected you to say either a deisel or a big block.

Cherokee is pretty nice, I was up there a couple weeks ago. My wife and I rode the train in Bryson City then spent a few hours in Cherokee.

I like some of the 24 foot travel trailers I have seen but I think that is a little too much for the Xterra. I would like to find a nice used travel trailer in the 18 to 19 foot range.

 

It pulled it just fine, it never even dropped a gear going up Black Mountain or Soco Mountain. The smog shit had been removed too though. Airstreams are light as hell, but I'd rather have something else if it's going to be parked much because of the loss of headroom.

Yeah, Cherokee is really nice, I just go to fish and relax. Went with my grandpa about every other weekend from the time I could walk until he died 2 years ago, so it's a sentimental place for me.

 

I used to go to Cape Hatteras to surf fish with my grandfather a couple of times a year from when I was a small child until he died a few years ago. I can understand what you mean.

You ought to check out the train sometime. It is a pretty nice ride, my wife really liked it. There are several different routes you can take but the one I did went along the Nantahala gorge. It goes over a tressle over lake Fontana and along the river.