My vehicle and T@b trailer

For a few years, I have been dreaming of traveling after retirement.  In April 2016, my home sold.   I was planning to buy a camping trailer and would need a new vehicle suitable for towing one.  So within a matter of 2 weeks, I found a 2012 Toyota RAV4 V6 to buy.   Then I bought a 2016 T@b Max S.

Here it is:

I had a while ago decided that a motorhome would not be good for what I wanted to do, since I would not want to have to tow a car also.   I wanted something small enough that I could handle.   I wanted an inside bathroom.  I couldn’t imagine tromping to a campground bathhouse in the middle of the night!!  So  I looked online at Scamps, Casitas, A-liners, lilsnoozy  and others.   The year before, I had stopped to look at T@b teardrop trailers at a dealer and was really impressed with the quality.

So I was real happy to find my T@b  at a discounted price no less.   I quickly found that because of it’s small size, it was light enough to move around by the handles on the front edges.   I learned to hitch up and unhitch and to hook up the electricity, water and sewer.  Backing up into sites took a bit longer, and once I got on the road, I found some spots were more challenging.   At first I would request pull-through sites where no backing up was necessary.   But some more remote places had no pull-throughs, and some spots were wierd shapes or didn’t have much maneuvering space on the road to even back up good.   So I quickly had to learn to do what was needed.