Starting a Trailer Conversion

We have an old 5th Wheel RV that we have been using since May of this year. You can review our Travel Journal to see some of the places we been in the last six months.

In those travels, we came to one conclusion, the 5th wheel is just way too large for us. For us, it has some of the following shortcomings.

• Too Long to fit in some of the boondocking spots we wanted to go to.
• Tends to no like the rougher roads we use for boondocking. In some places we have bent our truck bed when the RV has touched it.
• A slide-out. We have found that we do not like it at all. One more thing to fail and if you wanted to discretely park somewhere overnight, you have to slide-out just a bit to acess the bedroom and bathroom area easily.
• Too much wasted storage space. Since we rarely slide-out all the way, the storage hidden by the slide becomes useless to us.
• Grey and Black Tanks too small.
• Stairs and more stairs. We did not like having to go up into the bedroom and bathroom via stairs. We like things on a single level.

We looked at small travel trailers and they pretty much had the following wrong for us.

• Really small Tanks for fresh and waste water.
• Bad layout
• limited cargo capability.
• really pricey for a new one

In the end, we decided that while it will be a lot of work, we will convert an enclosed cargo trailer to have the features we want. After some searching and looking, we found a 7×14 enclosed for sale. The person that had it, only used it a few times. It pretty much was brand new.