Baja Man
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Considering a used pop up camper for a short bed full size 3/4 ton truck.
A couple on my shortlist are....
2019 Norstar TC650 (without toilet). No cabinet for porta potty...it was used for additional battery
2004 Hallmark UTE XL (with toilet)
My camping locales include everything between no facilities (20%), to pit toilets (40%), to showers and toilets (40%).
Basically, deciding between the need to have a toilet or not in the pop up.
For those of you that have pop ups without a dedicated toilet, how do you handle your business....porta-potty, wag bags, ??
Thanks!
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Mfan
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Porta potty and tent
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big_jeff
tucson
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Well I have no pop up but will still give you my 2 cents worth anyway, for free! I've camped all my life and used the portable toilet for years with a portable outhouse type wall. When I was looking for my truck camper I knew I wanted a full, dry bath. Your getting a pop up camper with no bath/toilet.. your spending a large amount of cash for a tent in your truck bed. And yes, I LOVE my bathroom and truck camper.
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JimK-NY
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I have to echo big jeff. After years of tent camping, I really enjoy having a toilet and would never want to go back to the old days of outhouses or digging a hole.
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time2roll
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At this stage of life I would eliminate the 20% of locations with no facilities. Otherwise may as well have a tent and backpack.
Even the cassette toilet in my old pop-up trailer did not work that well for us. Moved to pulling a trailer to have and actual bathroom.
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JimK-NY
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time2roll wrote:At this stage of life I would eliminate the 20% of locations with no facilities. Otherwise may as well have a tent and backpack.
Very few places I stay have facilities.
Even when I stay in a place with facilities, I prefer to use my own. Mine is clean, sanitary, and convenient. I am old and half the time I need a facilities visit in the middle of the night. If not then first thing in the morning before I am fully awake or dressed.
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bukhrn
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JimK-NY wrote:time2roll wrote:At this stage of life I would eliminate the 20% of locations with no facilities. Otherwise may as well have a tent and backpack.
Very few places I stay have facilities.
Even when I stay in a place with facilities, I prefer to use my own. Mine is clean, sanitary, and convenient. I am old and half the time I need a facilities visit in the middle of the night. If not then first thing in the morning before I am fully awake or dressed. X-2 the joys of us older folks, stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night with one eye partially open, much easier inside than falling down the steps to go outside somewhere, my days of outhouses are long gone and glad of it.
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Baja Man
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Thanks for the input.
As much as I liked the idea of pop ups with no bathroom, they are shorter and end up even with my bumper, so that trailer connection for boat is easy, I believe I may regret not having an indoor toilet.
With the added bathroom, I'll need a stinger when towing. I can live with that.
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theoldwizard1
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We had a port-a-potty when the kids were little so we did not have to walk them to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Pop ups are too small for and kind of permanent toilet/bathroom.
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