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Old 03-29-2007, 08:25 PM   #9
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We have had two Colemans, a couple of travel trailers,and a Palomino tent trailer. Of the three tent trailers, I liked the Palomino the best. The tires on the Colemans were too small so the tires heated up too much and threw the rubber off. The Palomino had 13" wheels and we never had any tire issues. (We even took a trip to southern Mexico with the Palomino) All three were a pain to set up in the wind or rain. The beds had pipe props that you had to lift the beds in order to put the props in. With a TM, you pull the bed out and the props are already in place since they're hooked up to the bed - no lifting. The tent trailers swing and sway in the wind and if the wind is just right they fill with air and then they deflate and it sounds like a shot gun. Try sleeping with that going on! As others mentioned - if you set up or take down a tent trailer in the rain everything is going to get wet. The regular travel trailers are a different story - sure they're already set up, but they also are harder to tow since the drag slows you down and the crosswind will make you sway all over. We had to have a sway bar with the travel trailer. One other thing, one campground we tried to stay at in Yellowstone wouldn't allow any tent trailers - the same with Glacier, except there you couldn't camp anywhere in the entire park with a tent trailer. We thought about a Casita (or a Scamp or Burro or a Canadian Trillium) when we decided to get out of the tent trailer, but they're SOOO tiny! The 17 ft trailer in these brands isn't as big as the main box on our 2619! We looked at the T@B but you have to stand outside to cook - that would be fun in the rain! We ended up buying a 2619 TrailManor on eBay and have traveled around 17000 miles with it. We're sold on TM as you can probably tell - even stopped at the factory last year for a tour.
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