So my wife and I like traveling and not necessarily the tourist hotspots. Sure we like Oahu but we also had fun in Springfield MO and Milwaukee. My wife's job can be done very easily remotely as can her craft fairs. My job is seasonal and frankly I can go whenever I want because I work for myself, my boss is an shiny happy person but the hours ain't bad. So that kinda led us talking about being digital nomads and how much we would want to do it.
The idea is to get something that's not massive though so when we do travel I don't have to haul around the SS TravelBarge everywhere, and I can park it at a hotel/air bnb/wherever when we don't wanna be in the trailer without lots of problems. After looking at stuff online these are the 4 that we like the most. Subject to change once we can get in them too.
We aren't limited to those but that's the general size and configuration we've liked so far. The Coleman is very cheap although I'm not a fan of the 12v fridge, I'd rather it was propane and use as little power as possible for long rural trips. No kids so it's just us and our big dogs. One is 100lbs and the other will probably be at least 125ish. A smaller area is fine because even at home they are always just right there and that's fine.
That brings us to the next part of this : the truck. If we are doing this I'd probably want a new to newish truck with all the miles id be putting on it. I originally just figured I'd get a Ford/Chevy/GMC full sized double cab in whatever engine I liked and be on my way but after Specing them up, seeing how much I would be paying, coupled with the fact that none of the options we've liked so far goes over 3500lbs and I don't really want this to be a work truck/very little use for another full sized truck.....makes me look else where.
Sure I could do some seriously heavy dutifying of my 97 k1500 for this but it's over 200k miles and it could probably use a tranny rebuild if it's dragging a trailer all over the place. Plus, it's a work truck and it's an extra cab, not exactly ideal space for 2 big dogs to ride with us.
So I started looking at rangers/Colorado's/canyons. They can easily tow what I want and a smaller more fuel efficient truck ain't bad for life outside of this idea. But I found out that a Maverick actually had more back seat room than a Ranger somehow.
Which leads us to the Maverick. A small very fuel efficient truck would fit perfectly into our life. It'll tow 4k in Ecoboost AWD form and is pretty cheap the way I want it. Am I crazy to think that it's a good idea?
I wanna stay in the double cab shorter bed style so I have some "outside" space for dirty stuff, garbage, muddy dogs etc. It doesn't need to be a huge bed , just not inside. I had my mind set on a new Chevy with the small diesel but I'm really rethinking that now.
Am I crazy to think this?