Andy and I have been thinking and talking about getting an RV for quite a while now. After the 2012 holidays we got the bug to become more proactive in finding something that would work for us. We scoured the pages of Craig's List many times as we tried to decide which type of RV style would best suit our needs. Every RV we saw was either way too big for our parking area, way too old, or way more than we wanted to pay. And in some cases all of the above!
Our first thought was to possibly get a Class C motor home. They are about the size of the mini-bus I used to drive, when I was a school bus driver. I thought maybe that would be comfortable for us and I'd be able to drive it, should the need arrive. Again, off to Craig's List. We saw a few promising candidates but even though they looked good and the price wasn't too high, we wondered about gas mileage, the care they had gotten over the lifespan of the vehicle (or lack of care). Since we don't have a pickup truck, a 5th wheel trailer was out of the question. Andy has a nice 2009 Chevy Trailblazer with a factory-installed towing package.
Oh duh! Why not take advantage of having the Trailblazer? We finally figured out that having a travel trailer was probably the best way to go since if we got a motor home, we'd want to tow a car behind to use as transportation while we were parked at a camp site, anyhow.
At least now we knew what direction our search needed to go.
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