CreeperSleeper
Looking for bigger rocks.
Wow, I really need to do a better job with this thread!
Jane was doing her duties as my wife's daily driver until March 13th. That is when she was upgraded from DD to baby hauler with our son, Canaan, join us finally.
The poor kid looks just like me:
In the months leading up to Canaan's arrival, my wife and I started having serious talks about how we are going to camp and recreate with a baby. Typically, we would be exploring about either on quads or in the truck and camping out of the RTT. That works amazing when it was my wife, myself, and our 10 year old daughter. We just couldn't see how we were going to make it work adding Canaan and a large dog... It was time for a trailer. So the quads and trailer went up for sale and we started shopping. After a ton of online searching and intense discussions, we went from an off-road trailer with a RTT, to an Air Opus Outback (super cool trailer!), to an off-road teardrop, back to the Opus, and settled on a travel trailer with an "off-road" package. LOL!
We ended up ordering a brand new Flagstaff E-Pro E19BH with the thought that it would serve as base camp and we will explore from there with day trips in Jane.
The features of this trailer are great and way beyond a typical travel trailer of this size. Even better is it was designed with a ton of features geared towards boondocking or dry-camping. They include 30 gallon tanks, dual propane tanks, 100w solar on the roof that is expandable, a built in inverter, torsion suspension, enclosed tanks, etc. So far I am continuously impressed with this trailer and I'm excited to use it to get out more with the family.
The first thing that I had to do was extend the stinger on my Andersen hitch so the power tongue jack will clear the swing-outs. Trust me, this was a last resort option, but it is working way better than I feared. I wouldn't recommend it, necessarily, but it does work. I still need to trim off the end but it is working for now.
We just got done with our shakedown trip. We wanted to go somewhere with full hook-ups so I could test all of the systems. The trailer pulls great, Jane handled it great, and everything but one window works as it is supposed to. I am a happy camper. (See what I did there?)
And it let us make family memories that otherwise wouldn't be possible.
Jane was doing her duties as my wife's daily driver until March 13th. That is when she was upgraded from DD to baby hauler with our son, Canaan, join us finally.
The poor kid looks just like me:
In the months leading up to Canaan's arrival, my wife and I started having serious talks about how we are going to camp and recreate with a baby. Typically, we would be exploring about either on quads or in the truck and camping out of the RTT. That works amazing when it was my wife, myself, and our 10 year old daughter. We just couldn't see how we were going to make it work adding Canaan and a large dog... It was time for a trailer. So the quads and trailer went up for sale and we started shopping. After a ton of online searching and intense discussions, we went from an off-road trailer with a RTT, to an Air Opus Outback (super cool trailer!), to an off-road teardrop, back to the Opus, and settled on a travel trailer with an "off-road" package. LOL!
We ended up ordering a brand new Flagstaff E-Pro E19BH with the thought that it would serve as base camp and we will explore from there with day trips in Jane.
The features of this trailer are great and way beyond a typical travel trailer of this size. Even better is it was designed with a ton of features geared towards boondocking or dry-camping. They include 30 gallon tanks, dual propane tanks, 100w solar on the roof that is expandable, a built in inverter, torsion suspension, enclosed tanks, etc. So far I am continuously impressed with this trailer and I'm excited to use it to get out more with the family.
The first thing that I had to do was extend the stinger on my Andersen hitch so the power tongue jack will clear the swing-outs. Trust me, this was a last resort option, but it is working way better than I feared. I wouldn't recommend it, necessarily, but it does work. I still need to trim off the end but it is working for now.
We just got done with our shakedown trip. We wanted to go somewhere with full hook-ups so I could test all of the systems. The trailer pulls great, Jane handled it great, and everything but one window works as it is supposed to. I am a happy camper. (See what I did there?)
And it let us make family memories that otherwise wouldn't be possible.
