When we were full time we lived in a 5th wheel, but we have owned two truck campers- an older Lance, and our newish Arctic Fox(1150). We spend as much as 5 months at a time in our TC.
Both of our TC have a slide, and both are fully usable with the slide in. Opening it just gives us more floor space.
Planning meals with a small fridge requires a little thought. For example, the summer we spent In Alaska, I planned at least two weeks worth of meals and bought the supplies when we went to the store. We ate the food in the order that it would spoil.
We looked at Host (Mammoth) and decided against them mainly because in order to use it, you HAD to open the slides.
Our Fox is heavy ( but actually lighter than our Lance was, and lighter than a Host) but it now sits on a 2020 truck, and the difference is mind blowing. Very little sway, and the truck barely knows it is there.
when we travel, itâs always a debate.....take the trailer or TC, and usually the TC wins. Itâs just hard to give up that ease of travel for the comfort of recliners. Turning on the microwave to heat up lunch canât be beat, and the biggest shock when we first had it has been mentioned....
we went to Yosemite and it didnât matter that we only had one night in each campsite, we simply parked the rig at whatever trailhead we wanted to hike, then moved it at the end of the day. No more days lost to travel. Pretty cool.