What did you have before your current RV?

[OnTheGo]

... tents, PUP, TT, MH. A common lifelong path for those of us like the great outdoors.

Once in a while we still tent camp. If we want to stop and camp somewhere and we have motel / lodge reservations at the destination, we tent camp along the way. I still enjoy it, but it takes longer to get going in the morning.

We pulled into a CG in Colorado a couple of years ago and a neighbor commented that we had our tent setup in less time than it took them to back into their site. I treated the comment as a compliment, but I wondered how long it took them to back in.

[mcfarmall]

Tents, then a 93 Palomino PUP with the hard sides, then the Jayco 23B. I still like the experience of sleeping under canvas.

[norty1]

Originally Posted by norty1

We had a 04, 30RKFS Sunnybrook Fifth wheel,
then a 96, 27RKFS Sunnybrook fifth wheel,
then a 76, 24' Winnebago class a,
then a 1995, 17' Prowler tag along.
then a Sears 9 x 12 tent.

My error, the Prowler was a 1967, not a 95.

[Jayr143]

We started in tents and once in a while stayed in the Inlaws motor home. We then bought an 08 jayco 29bhs and this year upgraded to the 33bhts.

[Rob_Fla]

When we bought our first RV in the early 80s, we started with a used early 70s Lark Popup, then after a couple of years moved up to a newer used Palomino Popup.
We got our first TT a small single axle used Sunline which was then traded it in on a new Skyline Nomad TT.
After some water leak / damage issues with the Nomad we traded it on a new Sunnybrook TT in 96 which we had for 9 years, it was a great RV.
We sold the Sunnybrook TT in 2005 and bought our first 5th Wheel, a 2005 Jayco Eagle.
We sold the Eagle and bought our current Jayco Pinnacle in late 2011.

[Parcany]

Tents while we were in Germany, then a 1989 Jayco 1206 tent trailer, Then went big time with a 2010 Heartland North Country 29RLS, then we got our Jayco 33RLDS. Love ever minute of our adventures

[grayco]

Last one was an "04" Fleetwood 725H. I still use a tent when Motocamping.

Marty

[TCNashville]

Tents since I was born. Then I got married. She didn't mind sleeping on an air mattress in a tent, it was the whole "no bathroom in the middle of the night" thing. Our first towable was a Rockwood Freedom pop-up with a cassette toilet. After that, a Thor Freedom Spirit TT, then a Flagstaff 829 FKSS, traded that in on our current Jayco. All have been good units.

[exjay1]

Originally Posted by CruizinKim

A tent!

X2

[Quantum]

A 6 person tent....with my wife....then baby #1 came along...the 6 person tent is in the rafters of my garage.

[bed685]

I had always tent camped. My wife had NEVER camped. our first two outings resulted in horrific storms that flooded our tents and tested my wife's faith in camping. The third trip was 95 degree nights. I knew this was just part of the camping experience, but she vowed to never camp again. I started looking at pup's, then hybrids, then settled on our 2007 29X. Our family of 5 loves the TT and I'm glad we went big to start. My wife likes the A/C, heat, bathroom, and real bed, and I still get to be outdoors, grill, and enjoy all of the other aspects of camping.

[clutch]

We had a Montana 32ft 5th wheel. More than once I have wished we still had our money and Montana back. It is not every day one trades down.

[Iraqvet05]

We rented a PUP once a year for our "big" trip and tent camped the rest of the time. It was hard to convince my wife to look at TTs when I first brought the idea up but now she loves ours!

[2edgesword]

Nothing.

We rented a class C to see if we'd enjoy the RV experience and all I needed to hear from my wife after we got home from our first trip was "so when is our next trip?".

From there we spend about a year researching what we wanted, needed, could afford, could tow with my current TV and store on our property. Ended up with a 23', 3500 lbs TT and so far have put 4,000 miles and 30 nights in it over the last 16 months.

[OnTheGo]

Originally Posted by 2edgesword

Nothing.

We rented a class C to see if we'd enjoy the RV experience and all I needed to hear from my wife after we got home from our first trip was "so when is our next trip?".

From there we spend about a year researching what we wanted, needed, could afford, could tow with my current TV and store on our property. Ended up with a 23', 3500 lbs TT and so far have put 4,000 miles and 30 nights in it over the last 16 months.

Pardon me for slipping this post into this thread. That's a good story, 2edgesword. Renting has been recommended before in this forum, and IMO it's a good idea. The way you went about it took all the "impulse" out of the purchase. There would be more satisfied customers with that approach.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by CruizinKim

A tent!

X3

[maromeo]

First was a tent for one summer, then a 2002 Viking 2575 PUP for 9 yrs, purchased a 2011 Jayco 26RLS and traded it in after 2yrs for our current Eagle. Love the new unit.

[jamaddox]

Not sure if I answered or not but we had two tents. First tent was huge but we were out of it during a tornado warning ( 4 hours from home), came back to our campsite to find tent wrapped around tree. We left right then and went home. We liked camping so we bought another tent but never really got to use it because we found our first popup.

[steve76]

when I started camping I use to camp in a tent, up graded since then ,love my pop up

[SmokerBill]

I had a little pop up tent. Last time I used it the wind blew, it blew down and I stayed in a hotel. A couple of years later I bought my Jayco and will never go tenting again.