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Camper Sales Soar as People Look for a Safer Way to Travel - AARP
What you should know about these towable RVs
If bare-bones, backwoods tent camping isn't your idea of fun but a 35-foot luxury RV home-on-wheels isn't in the budget either, a middle ground that's comfortable and affordable is likely within reach.
As people have begun to rediscover the outdoors this summer, sales of travel trailers and pop-up campers that you can pull behind your full-sized sedan, SUV or pickup have taken off. Many people 50 and older who spent most of the spring at home trying to keep the coronavirus at bay started to get cabin fever as the weather warmed.
"The floodgates really began to open in May,” says Mike Pearo, owner of Hilltop Camper & RV, with three locations in Minnesota. “It's as if some older customers were canceling their European vacations to come to buy RVs."
What you should know about these towable RVs
If bare-bones, backwoods tent camping isn't your idea of fun but a 35-foot luxury RV home-on-wheels isn't in the budget either, a middle ground that's comfortable and affordable is likely within reach.
As people have begun to rediscover the outdoors this summer, sales of travel trailers and pop-up campers that you can pull behind your full-sized sedan, SUV or pickup have taken off. Many people 50 and older who spent most of the spring at home trying to keep the coronavirus at bay started to get cabin fever as the weather warmed.
"The floodgates really began to open in May,” says Mike Pearo, owner of Hilltop Camper & RV, with three locations in Minnesota. “It's as if some older customers were canceling their European vacations to come to buy RVs."