What was your 1st camper?

[awaywego]

We started in 1964 with 9x12 tent, First RV was 1964 Shasta.

[Rob Walters]

Aluminum Pick Up Topper in 1975, then a Pick-Up Camper top in 1978, then 27 foot TT bumper pull (no slide outs) in 2006. (full timed in it for 6 months in 2010 then went out and bought the Monty with 4 slide outs.) I'm done now. Very happy with this Monty, and my new Splendide Combo Unit that y'all helped me install.

[Fritz7]

In 1967 bought a "66 Nimrod tent camper which had been a rental unit the previous year.
In l969 went out to Yellowstone with our 6 kids - 4 youngest slept on one bed and 2 oldest
in sleeping bags on the floor. Since then 2 more pop-ups, 3 TT's and 3 5th wheels.
Note to Tom S. That looked like a Michigan State Park post in your pic. Checked your
profile and decided it probably is.

[Irlpguy]

My family "never" camped but as a young fellow I and friends camped in tents, lean-to and various other structures. In 1959 those same buddies and I embarked on an "adventure" to Northern BC and the Yukon for 5 weeks sleeping in and around a 1953 Ford, working at odd jobs we had the time of our lives.
Left the Royal Can Navy in 1964 and in 1968 I bought my first pickup a F100 Ford LB 2WD with 360 engine, and built my first truck camper, it was a crudely built "thing" but had a fridge, furnace and 2 burner stove and a whopping 10 gal fresh water tank. When my DW and I moved half way across the country in 1969 it along with a small home built utility trailer contained all of our earthly belongings.
In 1971 after taking a camper building course at night school, I built my second camper which we used for a good number of years. Since then we have had a tent trailer, two small travel trailers, a 21' class "C", a commercially built TC and finally our very first brand new TT which we traded for our first SOB 5th wheel, finally the Montana. Our kids grew up camping every summer somewhere between Alaska and California.
Those days we actually camped out with minimal luxuries and sometimes none at all, but what fun and experiences we all shared.

Today we camp in first class luxury, it just ain't the same.

[mlh]

We do "camp" in first class luxury. I'm a poor little country boy and can't even imagine how I could have a camper and truck like we have. My home cost $20000. I had to borrow half of that and was terrified. Heck my payment was about a hundred dollars a month. How lucky we are.
Lynwood

[napria]

mlh, our Montana cost more than our first home, too. I didn't think about that till you mentioned it. And although the Monty is smaller than our first home, it's decidedly much more luxurious!

[Art-n-Marge]

My first camper was a 1986 Coleman pop-up camper, and prior to that, plenty of nights in a puptent, cabin tent, family size tent or under the stars, in or on top of a sleeping bag weather and bugs pernitting . The popup camper was like luxury until we got the TT, then this 38' Montana.

[mlh]

Napri I'm still in my first home. It's my dream home. When I was a little boy I could look across our hay field to a small rise and I knew where I wonted my home and I knew what I wonted it to look like. I built it my self. Pored the footer and put the cap on the roof. I had not even built a bird house before.
Lynwood