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Originally Posted by Northofu1
How anyone could pack a literal ton of baggage/ food/ clothing/ etc. in a trailer that size is beyond me.
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Weight adds up fast. If you are the type who likes to travel with his freshwater tank full, you've just eaten up a quarter ton right there.
When we bought our first rig 20 years ago, we took a one week shakedown cruise, then packed up for a year's excursion around the US with a 10-year-old. We had to homeschool him to our district's standards, which included a pretty stiff reading list. This was before the era of e-books, so we had two crates of physical hardcovers in the cargo hold. DW, a mistress of Tetris when it comes to packing things, was pleased as punch that our rig came in precisely at max weight at departure. Knowing what I know now, we were probably excessively overweight for the payload of our Suburban 2500, though it didn't seem to show in towing responsiveness or performance. The silver lining was that as he plowed through each book, we would just leave it in a campground swap-a-book library, so as we traveled we continually got lighter and lighter. :-)