We were tent campers up until 2 summers ago when a family member decided that they wanted to upgrade to a different trailer and offered to sell us their tent trailer. 
We knew it was time, we purchased my last vehicle knowing that we wanted to be able to tow with it, and after tenting with 2 kids as babies I felt like I had earned the “you’ve roughed it” mom badge and so we bought the tent trailer.
Now here is the thing. When you have camped in tents for your whole life and you upgrade to a tent trailer you pretty much feel like you’re in a mansion. And this mansion had kingsize beds, which was great for my tall husband and it could sleep up to 8 people.
And we had storage. We bought trailer bedding and trailer towels, trailer dishes and trailer toothpaste…we bought it all. And as our 3, tiny humans have started to grow into tiny giants we also acquired more stuff to bring along. (spoiler alert – I am not nor will ever be a minimalist especially with camping) And we spent a glorious summer in the tent trailer mansion on wheels with barely any hiccups.
Fast forward to this past summer where every child got sick in the trailer on 3 separate camping trips, one in which I am still traumatized from because seriously how can someone so small throw up THAT MUCH!
We went camping when it rained (ALOT!!!), and it quickly grew old when the kids got restless and board games and shadow puppets didn’t cut it. In those moments I longed for some non-fabric walls and a tv because after 3 hours I just wanted to put on a damn episode of Paw Patrol so that we could have a 30-minute reprieve from telling the kids to STOP TOUCHING THE FABRIC WALLS!!!!
And so here we are now planning for our summer of camping and figuring out our next move in the trailer department.
Do you have any advice for me? Let me know in the comments.