[Mr. Adventure]

We've followed a similar RV trajectory, beginning with popups in the 70's. The advantage of the motorhome is having it all set up (but you still have to stow everything for sea before you get underway). The disadvantages included the size of the rig on the road, the awful gas mileage (7.5 mpg at 60mph), the maintenance of all that machinery while it's spending most of it's days parked in the RV storage lot, and when there's something wrong, it's a pain to get it to someone to fix it (for example, most of the places you take your car to get an oil change don't have the space or facilities for a motorhome). And you're still always towing, because you really need a car to go where you want to go when you get "there" almost no matter where that is.

The TrailManor, on the other hand, uses the same power train I take to work every day. It's roomy inside and reasonably well behaved on the road. the setup is only a few minutes more than the motorhome, considering that the extra size and mass of a motorhome requires more care and time to get it positioned, and the hookups aren't much different once you do (and you're still hitching and unhitching a towed vehicle with a motorhome). TM's have an amazing life span, compared to other RV's, judging from what's posted here. And, ours has been the most reliably ready to go RV we've ever owned. We do travel lighter than we used to, but with the price of gas as high as it is, we'd probably be more careful about what we carry in any RV.