What's the biggest reasons you bought your pop up

[ScouterMom]

It was the schlepping of all the camping equipment, the prep time before and after a trip, packing and unpacking - my back just can't take it!

I still tent camp some - in places where it is not possible to take the PUP - like on a scout trip occasionally, or on my favorite camping trip each year- canoeing the Wisconsin river and sleeping on the beach - but for the most part, now that I've reached middle age, I like sleeping off the ground, not having to pack/unpack the stuff I might(or might not) need every time we camp, having a stove instead of a campfire for cooking, and occasionally having a site with electric for lights and the dorm fridge.  We don't have AC in our PUP, but will use fans - maybe someday we'll splurge for AC.  Like many, I still like the 'feeling' of being in a tent - I just don't want to be on the ground anymore!

Laura

[BillMc]

When wife and I got married I wanted to tent camp she said no. We bought an old starcraft, and had fun When the 4 kids came all,the last 3 are seperated by 1 year or less. She said no more camping to much work. So we condo for 10 plus years. We bought a house and didn't have a dime left to our name, she took a trip to Iowa with family. My sons then ,I think 11 and 9 years, bought two tents from Bud's Discount[part of Wally World] for 10.00 a piece. They were family tents. I did some yard saling and found the basics cheap. It was the begging of summer. Tents were up in the yard and wife shows up a week later and just looked at me and smiled. I said the boys and I are going camping in the mined wildlife area. After dinner she is out looking at what we have collected. Turns to me and says you have been working allot of overtime and no bills are due, how about a camping trip to Silver Dollar City Campground. So we did a four day trip and bought season passed for day trips that she turned into weekend camping trips. When fall hit it was to cold to camp and campgrounds were shutting down. In bed one night she turns to me and says: We have all of the gear why not buy another pop-up. In the spring we bought the 1980 Jayco. That was about 15 years ago and we are still going only minus 4 kids.
BillMc

[br9]

My wife

[Dray]

My wife

That's funny!  It's one of my reasons too.  But if I had to pick just one reason it would be that I wanted an easier and more comfortable way to camp.  

I have had my PU for a little over a year and we all sleep great.  I tent camped a couple weeks ago and was tossing and turning all night.   And that was with a sleeping pad underneath.  Oh the comforts of my PU.  How can I go back now?  Not.

[jeezy]

I grew up camping, mostly in RVs, with a bit of tent camping thrown in-especially with scouts.  

We had three pups during those years.

An old Coleman which we replaced with an Apache which was a piece of leaky junk, followed by my family's first newly purchased RV- a 12 ft. Viking which we loved.  

We traded that in on a smaller TT, but when my brother and I got into my teens with my brother a few years behind, we outgrew it and bought a 30 foot Prowler Regal.  Keep in mind, in addition to traveling, we camped every weekend at a membership place so space was nice to have as it was a home away from home.   I camped with my folks into my 20s.  

Dad died 9 years ago and Mom sold the trailer.  My wife and I have tent camped off and on since then.  Then came the kids.  Last fall we finally broke down and bought our new-to-us 2003 Rockwood Premier.  Why?  I guess the best reason is I enjoyed it so much growing up and I wanted to offer that to my children.

[ckpopup]

It was a deal I couldn't pass up for 600 bucks...plus, I needed a place to sleep while spending the weekend at the Nascar races @ Texas Motor Speedway.... the back of a Durango gets awful rough on the back for 2 or 3 nites!!!!!

[coach]

Cheaper than renting.

[NiagraRising]

My fiance, me and our mastiff were a little cramped in a 4 person tent, lol.

[GrizzlyTaco]

My wife and I also tent camped for years before we had kids and now we're in our early fortys and its hard for us to sleep on the hard ground, we would have sore backs and butts in the morning. So we decieded we needed to get an RV of some sort. We looked at all kinds and we decieded on a PU because we like the idea of tent camping but with a few of the comforts of home but still get that tent camping feeling. Our daughters are hooked on camping also, i tried to get my brothers family to get into it also but when we took them camping i couldn't wait to get them home, they just didn't get into it. They would rather stay in a hotel. Never again will i take them!!!!

[austinado16]

Tent camping had just become a joke with all the stuff we "needed" to bring.  I'd never seen a popup up close, let alone been in one.  Was sort of looking at what they were going for on Craigs List and then bam, stumbled across something called a Starcraft being sold at a thrift store/soup kitchen for $500.  Looked like it was a big model, so I drove 200mi to look at it. Offered them $250 and dragged it home.

Probably the best $250 I've ever spent for a "toy."  We love it.  No more camping on the ground, no more dragging a million things along. Still cracks me up that it goes from being a box to being a house in just a couple minutes....but what can I say, I'm easily entertained.

[wavery]

We had a choice.....$5 million dollar Malibu Beach home or the PU on any beach we wanted.....

PU won. :sombraro:

[waygard33]

1) Tired of sleeping on the ground.
2) Rain in the Northwest
3) Rain in the Northwest
4) 35* temps in July, on the beach, in...you guessed it...the Northwest
5) Limited tow vehicle
 :sombraro:

[AZsix]

My wife

So is that to go camping with your wife or to get away from your wife?  :eek:

[Gstvsn]

After 15 years of tent camping, the wife wanted to get up off the ground (me too    - had enough of digging rain trenches)

[br9]

So is that to go camping with your wife or to get away from your wife?  :eek:

Texas is pretty hot she really wanted a bed and ac so i guess with