What camping setup do you have?

I'm I hallucinating or is the back door gone in the dog pic?

 

Upgraded the trailer and my kids love it!

 

Have an RV to glamp it up but go backpacking as well.

 

2005 Jayco Baja Popup

 

Not my pic/truck but I clearly see the door there. LOL

 

Over the years I think we have done camping out of a truck with a shell, pulled a toy hauler, and then a big Class A RV. Now that the kids are out of the house, it’s a short simple Class C.

 

Completely envious of this view / location. Hope to enjoy a campsite like this one day with the wife as well.

 

Your truck looks great in this pic! What colour is that paint?

 

its the 55, walmart $97. Good reviews
Keeps ice great for the price. Solid sides/ top, stand on it, stable.

Cons: its heavy, The handles are poorly designed, a piece of pvc around a rope basically- so its a cumbersome move, wrestling it around. Use it for base camp, then a smaller 20qt Orca or Treeline for driving and the boating/fishing

 

tyvm. salsa red pearl. was avail for 1st gen and early 2nd gen until 2010 iirc when it was replaced with barcelona red.

 

A lot of good setups in here and a lot of good advice.

The only snippet is see kind of missing is what your style of camping is.

Do you base camp in the same location for a few days at a time? - ground tent rules here. Or any of those bed tents, trailers, RVs or whatever.

Do you move locations every day? - this is the use case for RTT.

There are differences among RTTs also. Some of the soft side folders take a bit of time to setup and put away. Typically still faster than a ground tent (except a gazelle or similar).

Most of the hard shell RTT and GFC/FWC/Atlas campers are super fast to open and close. It can be possible to base camp with a hard shell or camper style since they’re quick and not too irritating to open/close, but that will depend on your personal threshold for bullshit. My wife and I have an extremely low bullshit tolerance, so we went with a hard shell RTT. It sets up in under a minute, and packs in about two minutes. That’s without rushing and racing. We’re outside camping in order to relax.

But on the topic of racing, we do like to go fast out there when we’re driving. And we like hitting the hard trails and getting to those hard to reach beautiful places. The hard shell fit that bill for us as well. Mounted it down low so the off road performance isn’t impacted too poorly.

If you’re dipping your toes in and trying it out, be sure to note any of the little irritating things, and think about if those could be solved with a slightly different style solution than whatever you start with. I see a lot of people start with a cheap version of something, then discard the entire concept because the cheap thing they tested isn’t quite as nice as a more expensive version. For us, minutes mattered, so we like the hard shell.




https://youtu.be/GO1fj3OjWTg

 

Here is our "camping" setup. I guess we are getting old and like our creature comforts.

 

Nice! Diesel?

 

A 4+ star resort with room service.

 

Yes, has a 3.0L V6 and gets around 14 MPGs but it only has 1500 miles. Sure beats the old Class A we had with a 8.1L GM which got 6-7 MPGs.

 

You are even softer then we are...…..sissy

 

What bed slide is that? One is possibly in my future.

 

It’s a Jotto Cargo Slide. The light duty one made of aluminum. Of all the ridiculous shit we’ve done to the truck (fridge, central tire inflation, hot running water,...) the slide is still my favorite thing.

Did a write up in our thread. (I still haven’t installed the replacement because we moved to Ohio. It’s in storage back in AZ).

https://www.tundras.com/threads/kom...h-speed-overland-rig.16989/page-2#post-474599

 

How Dafuq are you allowed to pull another trailer behind a travel trailer? To my knowledge, the only way you're allowed to do that is if the first trailer is a fifth wheel. And that's not even allowed in all jurisdictions.

 

Anyway, here's mine:



I like my Pop-Up because I can put bikes on top of the trailer, or if I'm only carrying 2 bikes, then the canoe goes on the trailer between the bikes, putting it behind the truck, which helps fuel economy greatly. When I have the canoe on top of the trailer (with 2 bikes), I'll average about 15L/100km (15.6mpg). With the canoe on top of the truck as pictured, I'll do closer to 18L/100km (13mpg).

 

My budget build. Sleeps 2, a 65lb dog and all our bags.

 

Just depends on the state. GTG in Montana, Idaho...not sure where else. Only plan to tow the double setup in those two states, and eventually will replace with a 5th wheel toy-hauler someday most likely.

 

Cool you built what you needed. Can you post a pic showing the interior?

 

Must have erased most of them but I kept track of most of it on tacomaworld, here is the like if you are interested
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lightweight-camper-build.465804/

 

Im still working through the build thread. Good work!

 

Well thanks!

 

Glamping/Ski Bumming truck.



Tundra w/ camp bed setup.



Foot Powered.

 

It is indeed an Uptop Overland Alpha.

 

My old solo setup. My new Tundra is only ⅔ dialed in. I'll have pics when phase 1 is complete.