RE: [A/S] Re: Spousal Sleeping Arrangements was Towing

[Cynthia Grant <cynthia.grant@xxxxxxx>]

I didn't see the original post that prompted this, but it does bring up 
something I've been wondering about.  My parents slept in a double bed, 
but most people nowdays are used to sleeping two to a queen-sized or 
even a king-sized bed.  We looked at a new Bambi this past Saturday and 
agreed that there is no way that the two of us could be comfortable in 
the tiny double bed provided (and we're NOT big people).   Why do new 
trailers come with such old-fashioned-sized beds? 

When we started thinking about getting a travel trailer, we had three 
main considerations: 1) a comfortable bed, 2) indoor plumbing, and 3) 
climate control.  Given those priorities, we would gladly sacrifice some 
galley space for sleeping comfort, but most trailers seem to have 
devoted quite a bit of space to the kitchen area and give less 
consideration to comfortable sleeping arrangements.  

It looks like the best we can do with our 17' 1968 Caravel is to have 
front and streetside gaucho beds, each sleep in one of them, and pull 
them out at night and put them up in the morning.  We have been able to 
draw out a better floor plan for that length trailer on paper (rear bed 
or beds, center bath and galley), but it would involve way too much 
work, and would transform it from a Caravel into something else, and we 
do like the idea of a certain amount of originality. 

Just pondering,
Cynthia