Mike Goad
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I'm Mike from near Dover, Arkansas. I'm hoping to early retire in the next couple of years.
We've started looking at travel trailers recently. We do not plan to RV full time, but we do plan on quite a bit of traveling. We've camped for years, starting out with a rented tent from Navy special services in the summer of 1972. We've backpacked a few times.
We bought a small, used Playmor travel trailer after having rented one and made a few long road trips with it, including one from Arkansas up into Alberta and British Columbia and then home by way of Idaho and the four corners area in a three week trip our kids fondly remember as the "trip from h___." After a series of misadventures, the trailer was rear-ended in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by a driver with no insurance, and we only carried the minimum on our trailer. (After sitting in our backyard for a couple of years, a guy installing a satellite dish offered $200 for it to use in his dear camp.)
Our desire is a new travel trailer of no more than about 7400 lbs total weight , loaded, as that is the weight limit of our tow vehicle, which we are planning to keep for now.
Well, that's probably a lot for a "newbie." I'm here to learn, hopefully a lot.
We've started looking at travel trailers recently. We do not plan to RV full time, but we do plan on quite a bit of traveling. We've camped for years, starting out with a rented tent from Navy special services in the summer of 1972. We've backpacked a few times.
We bought a small, used Playmor travel trailer after having rented one and made a few long road trips with it, including one from Arkansas up into Alberta and British Columbia and then home by way of Idaho and the four corners area in a three week trip our kids fondly remember as the "trip from h___." After a series of misadventures, the trailer was rear-ended in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by a driver with no insurance, and we only carried the minimum on our trailer. (After sitting in our backyard for a couple of years, a guy installing a satellite dish offered $200 for it to use in his dear camp.)
Our desire is a new travel trailer of no more than about 7400 lbs total weight , loaded, as that is the weight limit of our tow vehicle, which we are planning to keep for now.
Well, that's probably a lot for a "newbie." I'm here to learn, hopefully a lot.