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08-14-2016, 05:16 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Woodbridge, Virginia
Trailer: None as yet
Posts: 17
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What do you do while you wait a year?
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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08-14-2016, 05:22 PM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Trailer: 2017 Escape 21, 2016 GMC Canyon Duramax
Posts: 587
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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Work on the build sheet. It seems endless at times.
Decide on a tow vehicle. Watch lots of Youtube videos reviewing tow vehicles.
Buy stuff for the trailer and store it in boxes in the basement.
Visit this forum almost every day to find answers and guidance on what to include in the build sheet, which tow vehicle to buy and what stuff to buy for the trailer.
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08-14-2016, 05:23 PM
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#3
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Woodbridge, Virginia
Trailer: None as yet
Posts: 17
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I've been doing all that!
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08-14-2016, 05:36 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 1979 Boler B1700
Posts: 14,935
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You could buy a used trailer, to use temporarily. It will probably make you appreciate your new one even more when you get it. 
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08-14-2016, 05:43 PM
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#5
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Woodbridge, Virginia
Trailer: None as yet
Posts: 17
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These trailers are so popular, I can't find a used one to buy!
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08-14-2016, 05:49 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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Figure out how to pay for it. 
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08-14-2016, 06:16 PM
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#7
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,277
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If you want custom upholstery and/or Formica, don't delay! Those two things took me longer to find and make a decision than everything else.
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Donna D.
Ten Forward
2014 Escape 5.0TA
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08-14-2016, 06:24 PM
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#8
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Get your tow vehicle lined up or purchased.....do some modifications to it to make it better for towing.
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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08-14-2016, 06:43 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,391
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go to a couple of rallies and get ideas. Take a camera.
Dave
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08-14-2016, 06:44 PM
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#10
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Trailer: A lovely 2017 Escape 21C
Posts: 435
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Do the build sheet, redo the build sheet and then change it again. 
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Peace and safe journeys,
Steven M 
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08-14-2016, 07:06 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Woodbridge, Virginia
Trailer: None as yet
Posts: 17
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I hear that! I have a 2006 Silverado 1500HD and I'm also looking at replacing that so its a double whammy.
The little GMC pickup with the duramax diesel looks good but now you are talking 60K plus all in.
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08-14-2016, 07:18 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
Posts: 9,207
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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It's a big world. See some of the places a trailer won't go. 
Ron
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08-14-2016, 07:26 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Olathe, Kansas
Trailer: 2015 21ft Escape "Spirit of the Plains", 2014 GMC Sierra with max tow package
Posts: 1,100
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Live life as you normally do and one day before you know it, you will have an e-mail saying that your build sheet is due in a couple of weeks. Loren
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08-14-2016, 07:28 PM
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#14
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,225
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
These trailers are so popular, I can't find a used one to buy!
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I think he means another brand of trailer - like a used sticky that will at least get you out camping while you wait. Some can be had for very little money.
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"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy an RV. And that is pretty close."
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08-14-2016, 07:35 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
Trailer: 2015 Escape 5.0TA (Little Elsie) Extensively Personalized
Posts: 3,042
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In addition to working on the build sheet, I spent a great deal of time measuring and packing the items from the previous trailer that we considered "essential" for the return trip from Chilliwack. By the time I was done, just about every cubic inch in the tow vehicle was accounted for.
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What a long strange trip it’s been!
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08-14-2016, 07:42 PM
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#16
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southwick, Massachusetts
Trailer: None, sold my 2014 5.0TA
Posts: 7,124
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Hung around here buying too much stuff from Amazon, this forum will do that to you. A couple weeks at St John USVI and a couple in Asheville helped to pass the time.
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Happy Motoring
Bob
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08-14-2016, 07:45 PM
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#17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Area 51, New Mexico
Trailer: pondering.....
Posts: 728
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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prepare for the carefree days ahead and second guess the decision already made while continuing to trailer shop/research.... just in case any mfg introduces "the one"!
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08-14-2016, 07:47 PM
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#18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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I measured my truck bed and laid out tape on my dining room floor and started packing containers for the trip out without a trailer and the trip home with Prairie Schooner, linens, dishes, toiletries, dog stuff, passports, tools, camping items....
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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08-14-2016, 07:58 PM
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#19
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Area 51, New Mexico
Trailer: pondering.....
Posts: 728
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
I measured my truck bed and laid out tape on my dining room floor and started packing containers for the trip out without a trailer and the trip home with Prairie Schooner, linens, dishes, toiletries, dog stuff, passports, tools, camping items....
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looks like you have a furry inspector to make sure no little critters get packed....
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08-14-2016, 08:00 PM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Trailer: 2017 Escape 19 pulled by GMC Canyon Diesel.
Posts: 198
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SSBN
What do most of you do while you wait a year for your trailer to be built?
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Pretty much like everybody who has answered! I think I may have found some mirrors for my Cayon based on a recommendation found on the forum earlier today. I have a couple of bins going for the Escape trousseau as well as a lengthy "wish list" on Amazon.
I will be at the Niagara get together in a few weeks, sans trailer in the motel, with camera and notepad. Perhaps someone will demo a dump!
You Tube, this forum, the Airstream forum along with Pinterest and other sites including nautical. And so on....
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Jean-Pierre
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain
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