Trail(er) Blazing

My wife and I both enjoy camping.  However, we are getting a little old for sleeping in a tent.  For a while now, she has talked about taking the next step and getting a smaller trailer.  So yesterday, just for the fun of it we went and looked.

Both of us kind of liked the "A frame" trailer, a fold down (or pop up) trailer that had solid walls.  It was this type of trailer that we went to look at yesterday morning.  But our excitement was short lived.

Now I can recall that my father never liked backing up the trailer when we went camping.  So he would get it roughly in the site, unhook it, and move it around by hand.  I guess this gave me the impression that fold down trailers were fairly light.

However, yesterday we discovered that our new Ford Escape is not powerful enough to pull the little A Frame trailer that we liked.  The salesman at the trailer lot said it was a common mistake.  That you should look up the trailer you want first, so you know when you got to buy a new vehicle what you need for towing.

We have both gotten over our disappointment and now have our eye on a small tent trailer that our truck can pull with ease.  Unlike the tent trailer of my youth, this one comes with a kitchenette, and a furnace.  The furnace alone is a major upgrade when you spend most of your nights camping in a freezing tent.

Sure it is not a trailer that we can park seasonally next to out friends' fifth wheeler out at the lake. But it is a step in the right direction.