We had a PUP for 9 years. The last 2 years we wer a family of 5 and that 10' box was might crowded. When we got our PUP, I gave up camping in bear country because with little kids; it wasn't practical to keep all of our food in the vehicle or never make popcorn or a snack inside. And we had a toilet/shower so we're using shampoo, etc. inside to attract bears.
I missed camping in all the places with the 100' trees and bears. So when we needed to upgrade, I jumped at the X213. Hard sides so I can bear country camp, but still narrow enough without slides and short enough to be able to fit into non-parking lot camp sites without the trailer taking up every inch of space.
I can say that having tent camped for 15 years, then a PUP for 9 years, I do not miss tent ends at all. It is so nice to not be woken up by the neighbour's kids at 6am. And it's awesome to be able to stay up until 1am playing cards and yapping in the rain without keeping any other campers awake.
And the set up and take down is so much simpler than our PUP was. In 9 years it seems it rained almost every time we were packing up to go home. So when we got home, we always had to open it up again. I'm sure it was nowhere near every time, but enough to get grumbly about the extra work. We don't miss having to do that. Worst case now is that I left something we needed inside the couch, so I open our garage door, slide the slide into the garage, grab the forth laundry out from under the couch, slide the slide back in and shut the garage door. One person job and only takes a couple minutes.
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2015 Jayco X213
2014 Ford F-150 Platinum EcoBoost w/ MaxTow
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