| Vacation travels are exciting, and that is especially true | | | | One wouldn't mistake a travel trailer for other towable |
| if one's destination is the countryside or some other | | | | RVs because of their style and their size. |
| country. Not everybody, however, shares this | | | | Travel trailer lengths usually range from twelve feet to |
| excitement. People who have grown too comfortable | | | | about forty feet. Those that are below eighteen feet in |
| with their homes, for example, may find traveling very | | | | length are often called small travel trailers. These travel |
| depressing. | | | | trailers are usually the simplest and can accommodate |
| But traveling need not always mean leaving one's | | | | about four people at most. Small travel trailers would |
| beloved home behind. And that is possible by traveling | | | | not weigh more than 3,000 pounds and thus can be |
| in a travel trailer. | | | | towed by a family car or a small pickup truck. |
| Travel trailers, also often called caravans in many | | | | Travel trailers of eighteen to twenty-five feet in length |
| places outside the U.S., are small trailers that can be | | | | are classified as mid-range travel trailers. These travel |
| used as living quarters while traveling. Travel trailers | | | | trailers usually weigh 5,000 pounds or more and are |
| are actually a part of a large family of vehicles having | | | | designed to be towed by V8-powered trucks and |
| the same characteristics. Also belonging to this group | | | | SUVs. |
| of vehicles are the pop-up trailers, teardrop trailers, | | | | Those travel trailers that measure more than |
| motor homes, and truck campers. Collectively, these | | | | twenty-five feet in length are called large travel trailers. |
| vehicles are called recreational vehicles, or RVs. | | | | These are often the most luxurious, equipped with |
| The different kinds of recreational vehicles share | | | | amenities that make them look like moving |
| several characteristics, so how can one differentiate a | | | | condominiums. Large travel trailers can measure up to |
| travel trailer from the others? Unlike motor homes that | | | | 12,000 feet and usually need a heavy-duty SUV or a |
| are vehicles in themselves, travel trailers are not. | | | | large truck to haul them. These RVs can also carry |
| Instead, travel trailers are designed to be towed by | | | | the greatest number of persons, ranging from eight to |
| other vehicles by means of a bumper or trailer hitch. | | | | ten. |