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Can you recommend any ultra lite travel trailers?
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 (September 9, 2015 at 12:16 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(September 8, 2015 at 11:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I can recommend a nice backpack, tent and sleeping bag. Yeah I get that. So the thing is, sleeping on the ground is good for the soul. I mean, assuming it exists. 
The Aussies make the best ones but out of my price range not to mention the cost of importing one. Go to 2:55 or so to see the features. The opening bit is impressive too.
https://youtu.be/SpKGm3TC5jc
No no no no no.... That is not camping. Seriously, you and the missus come up to Washington, and we'll show you camping.
Well those Aussie units go for like $70,000 if you could even buy one here. (Out of my range.) This contender from Canada is pretty unique but is even bigger on luxury, but for under $30,000 and also under 2000 pounds. Still more than I'm looking for.
https://youtu.be/9QLFAoUK-UE What I really want is a simple teardrop with two big wide doors and room for a queen mattress, a good fan and out behind, when you pull up the top, a mess area with stove, ice box and food prep and storage. I want to spend under $10,000 and it should weigh 1200 pounds or less so I can tow it with any of our vehicles. We did years of backpacking trips: lots of trips to the Sierras and the Trinity area as well as trips into the Wind River in Wyoming, the Paria river in Utah/Arizona and then later canoe camping. Now I'm looking to trade some soul satisfaction for more back satisfaction.
Yeah, camping is great. But the last trip was up out of Mount Shasta City to the Seven Lakes basin. Not a huge shlep in. Just a couple miles out along the Pacific Coast Trail from a very high parking area (Gumboot pass I think) and then a mile or two down into the lakes basin area. We'd set up camp and I took a new collapsable bucket out on a log to scoop up some good water away from shore. Trouble is, that thing held a lot of water. I carried it back to camp and ruptured a disk. Spent two sleepless nights before giving it up. Sleeping without my CPAP is also a drag as I then end up napping all day. So now I've got to pamper myself.
Omg, seriously? 30-70G? I bought a nice travel trailer used for like 4500 back around 15 years ago.
Boggle.
Yeah, it might be possible to find something in the range you paid and I'm not in a huge hurry. But even new for something more basic around ten grand should do it.
Used is the way to go for sure. You'll save a mint. Damn things are highly depreciable.
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