Too Small Trailer

 

Adventure Location: Decatur, Al

Today's Date: 11-15-2022

WOW it was a nasty cold rainy windy day. However the itty bitty SSA check got deposited in the checking account last night while we were sleeping so we can buy groceries again. We do not know when the SSA swapped from Wednesday paydays to Monday paydays but this has happened for a few months now.

The continuous light rain gave us an inch and a half of rain since yesterday morning. The campground has an official rain guage that is read every morning and reported to some agency.

The OFM was the first one in the laundry this morning so we got done quickly and back to the Castle to store the stuff away. That was a good thing.

This is a bit unusual. We were somewhere in the last week where some Rvers were discussing minimum size trailers that will work well for full timing. They all agreed that anything smaller than 30 feet was too small for even a single person. They figured that at least a 38 foot fifth wheel was the smallest comfortable size for full time traveling. The OFM held his tongue and just listened to all the stupidity he was hearing.

Nope we will not participate in that discussion. But we will put some facts in front of our readers. The Castle is a 22H Arctic Fox regular trailer. The box is 20 feet long inside and7 feet 6 inches wide inside. Tip to tip the Castle is a bit over 24 feet long. We moved into it in late July 2007 and have lived and traveled in it since then. Yes the OFM is a single man without traveling companions but he lives rather well in it for the last 15 years, now in year 16 since last July. We feel the blog shows that we do not suffer with a rig that is TOO SMALL. Those big rigs cannot follow us to many of the places we can go to.

Here is two pictures of the Castle taken on a whim this morning to show how crowded the interior is after many years of living in this rig that is too small.

From the bed area looking to the bath

From the bath looking to the bed

That is how the trailer looks almost all of the time on the inside. Stuff is laid around and other stuff is stored in the many cabinets in the rig. By the way we have a very near full sized bathtub in the bath and a long clothes closet in there across from the bath tub.

Here is the bed area that started life was a short Queen bed and was modified to be a single mattress to open storage for paddling gear along side the mattress. There is a walking path between the couch and the bed.

bedroom view

Until four years ago when we had to give up yakking and biking because of balance trouble, we had all the repair and maintenance gear inside the trailer along with the toys that go along with those sports. We still lived very comfortably then and now. Now you can see how cramped the OFM has been for the last 15 years and over 200,000 miles of travel in this “way to small of a trailer”. But it sure got us to a lot of trying to have tooooo much fun locations,