The New Trailer

Today we picked up the new camper - a Sportsmen Classic.  It's  a 14 foot trailer with a rear kitchen.  The fourteen footer seems close enough to a tiny travel trailer without being too tiny.  When we first got there they were trying to sell us on a 19' trailer, but going from a teardrop to 19 feet seems a bit of  a big jump.  And neither of us wanted to tow it.

So all went well on the drive home.  The only really interesting part for us was backing it into its parking spot.  With the teardrop we just got it somewhere in the driveway, and then maneuvered it into position.  This one being about 1100lbs more heavy, it's just not as feasible to move it by hand.  We also had to set our trailer brake controller - a Prodigy P2 that we got at eTrailer.com.  Very fast shipping, btw, and their prices were way better than anything we could find locally (most places wanted the same amount for a really cheap brake controller as we paid for a much nicer one).So setting the brakes wasn't hard - you just have to set them so that at full braking they won't actually lock up.

Now we're just excited to get everything packed and ready to go camping.  We took a long look around tonight to figure out where we're going to put everything.  It sure has a lot more storage than we're used to.  Should be fun!