How Did You Get Introduced to FG Campers?

[D Davis]

I saw my first FG while camping in West VA. I asked to look at it and the nicesest couple told me all about why they liked it. I was hooked. That was about 20 years ago...I had a pop-up at the time that suited my handicapped best friend's needs, so I stayed with that for a long time. But always look on the web to research them. I wanted a Casita, Could not afford it...then a Scamp...When the time was right I looked everyday on Craigslist and this FG club and FG 4 Sale .com for a year. Jumped on the first one nearby in my price range. It was a mess and I paid too much for it's condition. Proud to say she is in working condition now, because of the most wonderful helpful people on this website who were encouraging, gracious and patient with me. Best site ever! Thank you friends, am so happy with my Uhaul Ct13.

[Imo.]

Saw a FB at a campground in S. Carolina around 1986 or so......talked with the owners, looked in....was impressed (it was small, compact, towed by a very small car, and the owners were an older couple from NH heading to florida for the winter). I thought "one of these days" and that happened last early fall when I found a13 Scamp in Kansas City.

[Imo.]

Not an FB but a FG...duh.....

[JCZ]

It was just a few weeks ago that I thought Casita was the only lightweight fiberglass trailer out there. Learned about this forum from the Casita forum.

Today I posted the question of how many are manufacturing lightweight, fiberglass 5th wheel trailers (that's what the wife and I have decided will suit us best).

In the past two weeks, we've been in several Casitas, a Bigfoot wide body and a Scamp. Really looking forward to seeing our first Escape 5.0 in person!

[Nita F.]

Sometime in the late 80s we saw a Scamp 5th wheel while tent camping in Big Bend National Park. We never got to meet the owners but never forgot it. When we finally decided tent camping was getting too hard we started looking for Scamp 5th wheels and bought our first one in South Carolina in 2004. The following year sold it and bought a deluxe model from Missouri. In 2010 we bought a Bigfoot 5th wheel from Oregon. It's so comfortable I think we will hang on to it for a while.

Nita

[David & Leslie]

Believe it or not, our camping experiences began with car-camping in a Ford Escort hatchback! Economical yes, but comfie it was not. That great little car got to the high-mileage mark as I was preparing to retire. We wanted to travel and knew we needed newer, more reliable wheels so we chose a Mazda MPV minivan - another super vehicle.

We happily van-camped from coast to coast and border to border for serveral years, but then ... one of us got 'trailer lust' and wanted a place to make coffee out of the rain. Any trailer would need to be light enough to pull with the MPV so I began my research with pop-up tent type and Chalet models. Hmmm - tent trailers are HEAVY and the quality of A-types was not super.

One of our neighbors had a Perris Pacer parked in his carport ... hardly ever moved so I dropped a note in his mailbox asking for facts about FG trailers and if he might want to sell it. He kindly answered our questions and politely said they'd pry that trailer from his cold dead fingers!

Internet searches brought us to the orginal FiberglassRV.com site and all the amazing and helpful members here. As others have said, what we learned here is why we love our Scamp and FGrv's in general.

Ahhh - eBay! We had just returned from a trip to the Midwest and out of habit I logged on to see what was new. OH boy, a Scamp 13 ... in Missouri! And no one was bidding on it! We corresponded with the seller who sent many photos, which DH analyzed a pixel at a time. It seemed too good to be true, but this was before all the scamming began so we jumped in with a bid. Wham, a proxy bid ... you know the drill. Well, we picked a number from thin air and slammed our bid at the last second - and WON! So back to MS we went, picked up our beautiful little GeezerEgg (from a couple who happened to be friends of friends from airline days in my other life ... small world, pun intended.) and took the long way home - 4200 miles thru Rocky Mtn NP!

Now, the 13 had no bells or whistles but we enjoyed every minute and every mile. However we are never immune to those 'itis' things ... mine was to have a bath. I mentioned to DH that for my next (landmark) birthday I planned to buy a toilet with a new trailer attached. He said 'why wait' so now we have our 16 footer, The Royal Flush! Sold our 13 at a rally from a note on our windshield.

We've been full-timing for 6 years and plan to continue as long as possible - we our FGRV! Happy camping - L 'n D