Categorize yourself

yes, I'm very current on TC's now. Just never heard it called a TC. Thanks.

TC = Truck Camper -- slides into back of my pickup ... generally so you can tow a trailer or boat as well as "living space" ... some have full baths w/shower, some don't.

Mine has shower and hot water as well as kitchen and cabover Q-bed. Dinette converts to two-bed, also has a captain's one-bunk above the dinette area ... will sleep five if you like one another enough.

Sleep five in a pick-em-up camper? You'd really have to like each other. I'm a firm believer that, regardless of the size, RV's only sleep two people. Our coach is 37 ft long with four slides but only sleeps two. I've been told the sofa is a hide-abed and folds out to full size but I've never opened it up to see. ;-> We did take my mother-in-law on a four day trip to Branson in our last coach. We'd had it almost five years and had to take the plastic off the mattress in the sofa to be able to make the bed up for her.

Yeah -- sleep five -- that's in the "advertising" ... practical application ... two if you're liking each other alot. In reality, TC's are really for a single or a couple if longer-term trips, or sometimes short trips where a family tows a boat or a ATV trailer for a weekend away. Then you tent the kids ...

You need to be a real outside person to enjoy the TC - RV, I think. And, the fact is, I spend most of my time outside, or reading maybe. But it's pretty small, and the reason they are popular is because of the "tow factor" ... you can tow other "stuff", or someone that wants to get into the back-country -- which is tough in a TT or a Class A or C. I'd bet that anyone wanting to full-time in a TC would be a lone person, pretty much. The longest TC's are for eight foot beds and hang over a little -- probably eleven foot floor, plus the cabover bed. My floor is just under nine feet and it's on a short-bed (6'9") 4x4 - 2500 GMC... w/ 6.0 gas engine, so I hang over about 20" off the TG ... fits fine.

We're a solid "1". Been fulltiming for 4 years now in Class A motorhomes (we're on our 2nd one). We stay in a wide variety of places: any federal CG accepting Golden Access card, state parks that provide disabled vet discounts, BLM/USFS boondocking, MCG, Elks, Escapees parks, and the occasional Passport America campground. Stays in commercial campgrounds are pretty few and far between, although we are looking at a Coast2Coast membership.

We sometimes bump into homesteader MCGs such as the Yuma Proving Ground but try not to let it bother us much. Life's too short.

The only scheduled stop we make is every April in Spokane for my annual meet with the docs at the VA there - good folks.

Presently outside the Proving Ground at Yuma doing the boondocking thing, but will probably move in for a couple of days of laundry before heading up to Quartzsite.

Good discussion. And our 40' motorhome sleeps 2 + 2 (2 people and 2 cats).

Bblhed> I?m not familiar with all the types of tow hitches, but my blue ox has pressure release handles that puts slack in each of the two arms so that I don?t have to use a punch and hammer to unhook the towed. I push the handles, grab the bumper with one hand and rock the vehicle, then pull the pins with the other.

I have a blue OX and I'm pulling a Scion xA (read little tiny car), and that trick does work for me if I can find a place that is flat to unhitch. The problem is that I live in the Northeast where finding a spot that is flat to unhitch doesn't happen that often. Having that hammer and punch is more of a back up than a primary plan, I have had the pins do everything from slide right out with no effort, to having to wiggle them out with pliers, to needing that hammer and punch, so I keep the tools with the towing stuff at all times now.

I'm not sure how to catagorize us. We are both retired and travel in a TC. We don't plan on selling our home at least not yet. Our quest is visiting all states in the conus. We try to hit all the highlites each state including the capital, military sites, historical etc. We tend to travel when school is in session to avoid crowds. Ninty % of the time we make no reservations. Spend most of the time boondocking. Last year started attending rallies for truck campers, had so much fun will probably do it again this year.