Towing a travel trailer(camper). I would like some info/help please?

Hello thanks for coming by this question. I really need to know a few things. I will try to keep my questions organized as possible. I have a 2008 dodge grand caravan swivel n go with the 4.0 liter (I don’t know if you need this info or not, but I thought I would put it in here anyway.)

Q1. Can I tow a camping trailer that is 26feet in length and weighs about 7500lbs with my grand caravan? (that is with all the luggage and everything in it.)

Q2. If I can tow that, will I be risking ruining something in my van?

I think those are my questions for now, now below what I am typing, I need your opinions.

1. Would you get a $10,900.00 camping trailer? (assuming I can tow it with my grand caravan)

2. Should I get the $10,900.00 camping trailer and buy a 1999 Ford F-150 for $4,000.00? (this option is if I can’t tow with my grand caravan.)

3. Should I get a 2007 dodge ram 3500 that comes with a fifth wheel camper for $38,000.00?

More things: Sorry this is a long question, but what is the best deal/what do you think I should do? If I can tow with my van, I for sure will get just the trailer. If I can’t tow with my van, I don’t know what the better deal is between the ford and the trailer or the dodge that comes with a trailer.

CLOSING: Thanks so much for those of you who have read all of this, I’m just really unsure. I would love some nice answers that will help me, maybe some more information that you guys would suggest that I should know, and links to things that might help me would be amazing. I will add details if I need to/think of anything else.

Oh and by the way, my van, the ford pickup, and the dodge ram pickup all have automatic transmissions if that matters. Thank you!

I am also looking and trying to keep all expenses under $20,000.00, but if the dodge ram and camping trailer is a good deal, I can make exceptions for that.
One answer asked how far I plan on traveling. Well, the trip I have planned for this summer is about from Illinois to South Dakota and back. And yes, I kind of thought that the dodge 3500 combo would be the best choice, but I would like to stay cheaper if I can help it. Thank you both for answering!

Have you had a rough life? Share here, please. I want to see how mine compares.?

I was born with heart problems and died as an infant but was brought back, obviously. I had surgery when I was 4. I watched my mother’s boyfriend beat her up and got the crap beat out of me by him when I made noise and woke him up. I got great grades in school but was constantly abused by my violent mother. We lived in a camper, a camping tent (there were 5 kids), and a van as well as a shack with no indoor OR outdoor bathroom. I went to a total of 15 different schools before I reached college because my stepdad was a tree planter. My real dad ended up in prison, so I didn’t see much of him. As a teen, I ran away from home, smoked, did drugs (not cocaine or acid or any of the “hard” stuff, although all drugs are bad for you), drank until I was sober and had a serious boyfriend. We were Seventh-Day Adventists, so I was always a social outcast at school, i.e. not eating meat, not wearing makeup, not going to movies or to Skateland, not going to parties, having to be home from Fri. night through Sat night and going to church on Saturday, etc. I had to live in a group home for 10 months while I was 17 after spending a few months in a juvenile detention center for running away (really my mother kicked me out, but I was glad to go to escape my grandfather who felt me up all the time and my mother’s violent temper and the responsibility I had to take care of the 3 younger siblings in her constant absence). I didn’t walk across stage at graduation because after being on the honor roll all through school, I managed to fail 2 classes in 12th grade. I went to summer school and got my diploma and started community college, but then oops! At 19, I wound up pregnant while ON birth control pills. My father forced me to marry the father of my child/my boyfriend who physically abused me almost every day, as well as emotionally by cheating, not working, pointing loaded guns at me, lying, stealing and breaking items precious to me. We moved to VA (from MD) thinking away from his family would be good. He wouldn’t even put our daughter on the bus for preschool, and she almost got kicked out because of it. I had him kicked out by the police, but it was so hard getting up at 4am to get the kids to daycare and work 10-hour days at a sewing factory (all the work they had in VA), so I took him back IF we moved back to MD, which we did. I couldn’t finish college because my husband would lock me in the bathroom with no window because he was jealous of me going to college with “all those guys.” I couldn’t escape him for 12 years. We lived in his parents’ basement in MD for 5 years with mushrooms growing in it and water sloshing around below the plywood subfloor when it rained….along with our 2 children. I finished my 2-year degree in English and got my diploma in medical transcription despite him and his mother trying to get me to quit and worked as a substitute teacher and medical transcriptionist. Found out about husband’s girlfriends #2 and #3. Finally husband bruised my ribs trying to root through my purse and I snapped and wouldn’t let him for once (he was the one cheating!), and I borrowed my mother-in-law’s car to go to the doctor’s (he took my keys with him to work) to find out about the bruised ris. I used this evidence to blackmail him into either letting me leave with the kids or I would send him to jail, now that I had solid proof. House of Ruth was NO help; the b*tch church lady on the phone told me they didn’t provide transporation and that we just needed counseling. Wth! I went to my father’s empty house nearby, and husband helped with the hope that it was just a trial. I had no furniture. My desk was a clothes hamper. He stalked me, broke into the house, stole money from me, gave me no child support for a year. It was so hard. I prayed to God that his current girlfriend would please like him and thankfully she got pregnant by him, and now they’re married, and he leaves me alone. I felt bad wishing him on someone else, but it was the only way I felt I could survive; I didn’t know what else to do. Life was finally normal for a long time! Now my daughters are 17 and 20, and one backtalks me all the time and is defiant…but gets good grades, and the other I just found out is – even after paying for her first 2 years of college, buying her a car and getting her a good job with the Air National Guard – working as a stripper giving lap dances. Their father, who miraculously found and kept a good job for the lst 12 years got fired for stealing overtime and is now jobless, so now I have financial strain. Life isn’t nearly as bad as my childhood or marriage now. I have a great boyfriend, a BS in psychology and own 2 paid-for houses and 2 paid-for cars and a great job working from home. It could be a lot worse. I’m just curious if any of you thinks I should write a book…and if you think you might wro
…might write one about your life. Is there such a thing as a normal life? Is my life typical? I wonder…

Help me name a car please?

Sister moved to Spain and bought a Eurovan… took out the back seats and put a futon bed back there. Her and her husband are getting camping gear and then hittin’ the road to surf France and Portugal! Help us name her van!!! Need a good name for it!

Turkey Travel Question Please?

I have watched some video clips on YouTube, Turkish Travel.
But I didn’t see any camper vans of any kind.
Do they have camping sites in Turkey?
Motorhomes?
Campervans?
I hate staying at hotels, I much prefer the camping holiday.
What about Bulgaria?
Is that a better place to go camping?
Please Help!
I am a Naturist too!

etiquette? Ok this is really crazy but please help..?

Ok I have a dream, its really crazy but to me its awesome. I wanna be like the Stepford Wives, or Bree Van De Camp (desperate housewives. I love that perfect house wife theme! I love to clena, cook , and I thrive on doing everything for my husband and kids, I would also like to teach my kids etiquette. So is there a program I can download or anything I can read to help me with this Thank you
Just for some of you who have a problem with me wanting to be a great housewife & mom. My husband is the best! He shows apprieciation daily, and my kids are bragged about by others because of how well mannered they are. I am sorry but my beliefs on being a woman is alot diff from others. I BELONG in my home taking care of my children and husband! They are my world they come first of course after God! I love my life I am very happy and so is my children & husband. Thank you for all the kind words SOME of you have sent me

Word Problem (The Luggage Rack) HELP PLEASE?

A family was about ready to leave on their camping trip. They loaded up their van with stuff, but it was getting really full with all kinds of equipment, plus five dogs. (Everyone had his or her own dog.) They were trying to decide whether to take the luggage rack for the top of the van to store some of their camping gear, or wheter they should just cram it all inside the van. Papa didn’t want to take the luggage rack because he said their gas mileage would be worse because of the increased drag. Mama said she didn’t want to be crowded inside the van, and she didn’t care how much it cost, she wanted to take it. Papa said they got 20 miles per gallon with the luggage rack off, and 17 miles per gallon with it on. Their destination was 3 hours away at 55 miles per hour with the rack off, but with the rack on they could only go 50 miles per hour. Gas cost $1.89 per gallon. How much more would it cost them to take the luggage rack, and how many extra minutes would it take them to get there?

Please rewrite this with fantastic English, good vocabulary?

I’m writing this to email my old English teacher.

Hi Sir, How are you? How has your holiday been? It was good to meet you when I turned up in the summer. Apparently the school has been shut due to the overwhelming flood in Bangkok.So now you’ve got ur holiday lengthened then. Good for you, isn’t it? I’m sure the whole country now struggles with this disaster. I hope things will get better as time flies by, with the water receding to the sea at some point. By the way, I was really impressed with seeing the pictures of me when I won the writing contest ages ago on your facebook.
I can’t remember anything in school at the time. I can’t even remember what I wrote. All the same, Thank you so much for reminding me of my past achievement.
I am on halfterm holidays this week. I haven’t been up to much other than drinking so much while camping in a camper van with my English friends around the English countryside of Suffolk. This is what Britons like to do apart from clubbing. haha. I have to crack on with a sheer amount of prep over the holidays now as I’ve got school next week.
Have a good one sir !

Road Trip CRAZINESS. PLEASE HELP?

My friends and I are planning a road trip through California next summer. We’re having an issue however of where we will be staying each night. My one friend is super cheap and wants to camp every night and constantly gets agitated by the fact that we would be staying in hotels (I planned a 7 night trip in which 4 nights would be camping and 3 nights in motels). She insists that we use her huge van (Ford ’77) that she says runs better than any new car –in other words, we shouldnt rent a car because its too expensive (her van has no air conditioning and no stereo–were traveling in June). She says shes never booked a motel in advance (didnt realize that you sort of have to do this) and thinks Im lying when I say you can’t have more than 4 people in a motel room (as in the extra fees apply). In terms of camping as well, she wants the cheapest of the cheap (buying only rice and beans and cereal in bulk–really roughing it) and calls us pathetic when we say we aren’t accustomed to camping so rigorously.
Is there any way we can reach a middle ground? I like to camp, and I dont mind tenting for 2 or 3 nights, but if Im going to be touring san Francisco, I’d really like to have a shower before hand

Heres where we will be each night

1. Sacramento (found a place she actually might be okay with since its a BandB and itll take all 6 of us for 100$)

2. Tahoe (I found a nice middle ground campsite, but she didnt like that it was 36 a night)

3. Tahoe again same place

4. A hotel in the san fran area (san rafael, novato, etc–im having issues finding it cheap)

5. Camping in Big Sur OR Hotel (everyone wants a hotel but I said if we cant do the hotel we should camp)

6. Another night camping in Big Sur

7. Hotel in Solvang

Is there anyway to get good discounts on hotels (ive been to hotels.com) or to get deals on stuff? I want this road trip to be fun for everyone, while also maybe taking some people out of their comfort zones (make people rough it a bit, or make my other friend loosen up and pay another $20 for a nice bed!)

Any suggestions with my dilemma?