I am retiring next year but I robbed the cradle and my wife has another 4-5 years before she can go.
We did a lot of tent and popup camping when the now grown kids were young. And we have talked about being snowbirds or full timers in a few years.
We would like to buy a travel trailer (probably used) now to see if this is what we might want to do. She has about 10 weeks vacation accumulated for each of her
remaining work time plus she has 3 day weekends. So we can take a combination of short and longer trips.
We have a 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab short bed. It has the 5.3L V8....3.42 gears....6 speed transmission....and the tow package but not the max tow package.
Plus whatever OEM hitch it comes with. According to the manual I can tow 9200 lbs. If I understand correctly I cannot really tow that much safely full time and I need to consider payload, passenger weight, tongue weight and etc, etc, and etc.
Its only going to be my wife and I mostly. Occasionally it might be a couple of grandkids. We usually travel light and we are not looking for something huge
I am thinking that we should look for a trailer in the 4-5000 lb range or so? Does that sound right? Would 6000 lbs be pushing it.
If we are looking at trailers 10 or so years old what size would a 5000 lb be on average?
Thanks for any advice.
We did a lot of tent and popup camping when the now grown kids were young. And we have talked about being snowbirds or full timers in a few years.
We would like to buy a travel trailer (probably used) now to see if this is what we might want to do. She has about 10 weeks vacation accumulated for each of her
remaining work time plus she has 3 day weekends. So we can take a combination of short and longer trips.
We have a 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab short bed. It has the 5.3L V8....3.42 gears....6 speed transmission....and the tow package but not the max tow package.
Plus whatever OEM hitch it comes with. According to the manual I can tow 9200 lbs. If I understand correctly I cannot really tow that much safely full time and I need to consider payload, passenger weight, tongue weight and etc, etc, and etc.
Its only going to be my wife and I mostly. Occasionally it might be a couple of grandkids. We usually travel light and we are not looking for something huge
I am thinking that we should look for a trailer in the 4-5000 lb range or so? Does that sound right? Would 6000 lbs be pushing it.
If we are looking at trailers 10 or so years old what size would a 5000 lb be on average?
Thanks for any advice.