Here is a video of setup and takedown. My wife had NO problems doing this. It's a snap; both procedures take about 30 seconds.
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First I do not recommend a pop up canvass top camper unless you intend to stay in camping parks. Critters and-- Gasp --bears have no problem with getting into a camper with a cloth top. Actually bears can get into most anything they want, cars, trucks and metal campers, but at least you have a warning with them.
My Camper was fun and golden, full kitchen and bathroom, small hot water tank, I believe 8 gallons and the refrig could run on propane. Tandom wheels, in an emergency we could have lived in it as long as the Honey Waggon came every week or so.
Camping in anything other then a cabin was new to me in the 1960's, the Kids bought used school buses and outfitted them with bathrooms, kitchens and seating and sleeping areas that were unique for the time.
International Harvesters were the choice buses to get, got to figure they ran for 3- 4 hours a day, 5 days a week or less, 9 months of the year, picking up and off loading kids from school, seldom went over 45 mph and had constant maintenance.
I do not know why school districts auctioned off their buses at 10 years old for new ones, only that the College kids got them for around $2,000 each or less and did some very innovated things with them.
Up until the 1990's these buses could be kept in good condition by any kid in highschool Automotive class, no computer stuff, only problem I found was on my bus 1979, in a down pour it would stall out and I had to get out and dry off the distributor cap, replace it and go on my way.
These old work horses are still in demand by those that want to get their hands dirty and create their own one of a kind camper and if times get wild a place to live in an emergency.
The new campers are not what the Preppers are going for unless they have someplace to park them year round. They know in an all out panic the last thing they would do is to try to haul a camper on the roads full of insane terrified people.
Camping is fun and a break from the normal routine, however it is much like buying a time share where one pays an arm and a leg for one or two weeks away from home.
I checked into it and for $8,000 to buy an old used camper, the upkeep taxes and fee to camp, I can take my family every year for 4 years on a cruse ship at discount prices to places we have never been before.
Lots of things to think about before one invests in a camper, how many weeks of the year will one use it, where will one store it in off season, will the family want to go into the boondocks with strangers camping 5 feet away from you ?
A big investment and one that does not appreciate in time, One can head out to the Grand Canyon for a couple weeks each year, or spend the money to take the kids to see the Mayan Temples, kids can allways see America and the geology's of what has happend in millions of years, but few get to see or wonder about Human history that cannot be explained.
Just crazy me, I did the camping and found it interesting, but I would have rather been for my family and myself in a place we would never again get to see at it was when we saw it.
BTW Hubby hates camping, the bugs in the food, the drunks next door, the fear of the wild critters, he was no fun at all in the woods. I should have taken him to New Orleans to see some really wild life.