Work & Play trailers - ?

Lynx0849 said:

We like to tour on motorcycles. The hassle these days is we need to ride two days on the superslab to get anywhere interesting. So, we have done a few trips using our "converted" utility trailer. The trailer is a 14' v-nose with barn doors and an RV side door. It also has 3 windows and is wired with shore power.
This lets us drive in comfort for the couple of days of highway not to mention we can cover more miles in a day in the truck as well.

We unload the bikes when we get to the camp site, set up a queen bed in the rear, and set up an outdoor kitchen. We have a portable AC unit for hot weather and electric heaters for cold. A dorm fridge, coffee maker and portapotty go up front.

Some of the disadvantages include needing motels along the way as the bikes (Harley touring models) take up the sleeping space, the hassle of setting up / striking the kitchen at each stop, cooking in the rain, no real indoor plumbing, and minimal indoor comfort on rainy days.

Even as light as this rig is (GVWR is 7500), my 1500 Hemi works pretty hard in hilly country.
So, I plan to trade up to a lightly used 3500 diesel next year. I thought about a 2500 but my reading here and elsewhere convinced me that the ride difference wasn't much but the capacity was worth the few additional dollars. I could just go to a dually but as we will be living the Boston suburbs for a few more years, I can't see parking it in Cambridge and it flat out can't fit at the mother in laws in NYC. Maybe when we move up north. I sure don't mind driving a big rig as I have a class A CDL, it more about the practical.

We thought the ultimate would be a 5vr toy hauler but many we liked would need a dually truck. We then started looking a TT toy hauler since with a WDH we could tow a pretty sizable one with a 3500 SRW.

Next, our thoughts went to motor homes, class C initially and then class A and we could just tow our existing trailer. Exploring this option was fun until we started adding up the $$ and we still would not have something to drive around with on bad weather days.

Hmm, back to thinking about what started this quest... what if we could find something that could facilitate our entry to RV camping without going in too deep. We looked at the Forest River offerings but didn't notice the W&P and I have read much about their products here. Then we found (and remembered seeing at the RV shows last winter) the Work & Play and I realized I had not read a thing about them. So, here we are.

Sorry for the novel but I hope it puts all my questions in perspective.

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