Question:
My husband and I plan on taking some extended camping trips (alone -
kids are gone) in future years, and we would like to purchase something
a bit more substantial than a tent. We camped in a tent all the way from
Toronto to Vancouver Island last summer, and it was fantastic, but then,
it never rained on us for that whole month ... :
We drive a new Nissan Frontier - medium sized pick-up truck.
We wondered if there was such a thing as a pop-up truck camper. I kind
of picture this as taking a pop-up and making it a size that will fit in
the bed of a pick-up truck. It would be no bigger than a regular truck
cap, when closed, but would unfold into something that, well, looks like
a pop-up trailor.
The "folding" truck campers that raise up at the top are not quite what
we had in mind. They are still a bit taller than the truck. We've looked
at pop-up trailors, but we don't want to be towing anything.
The reason why we are concerned with size is that we anticipate taking
some expensive ferry trips (Newfoundland, BC coast, etc), and prices go
up significantly if your "rig" is higher or longer than standard.
Anybody heard of a camper that would meet our specifications?
Answer:
-I have seen exactly what you're talking about before. Can't remember where
or who the manufacturer was though. Folded, everything pretty much fit down
into the bed of the truck, but folded out it stuck out over the sides for
the beds IIRC. I'll dig around and see if I can come up with it again
-With all due respect, are you really going to making that many ferry trips,
that it's going to make that much of a difference in the budgeting? If you
were getting on the boat every couple of weeks, I could see it.
