Four Reasons to Love a Toy Hauler RV

RVs allow you to travel and camp with all the comforts of home. Toy haulers take that a step further, giving you comforts of home and garage. These particular RVs can amplify your travel experience in several ways and here are a few reasons you’ll love them.

Motorcycling

If you love to travel, camp, and ride, a toy hauler is just the type of RV for you. Perhaps you’d like to visit another state. You’ve already got the comfort of your own home in your RV, but how might you get around a city, or ride through scenic mountain roads? With a toy hauler, you can have the best of both worlds. You’ll have a home you love as well as transportation.

Off-Roading

If you crave exciting trails and dirty off-roading, a toy hauler is a must. This nation is vast. It has countless off-road opportunities. Spend the day playing hard on a dirt bike or exploring terrain on a four-wheeler. Then come home to a meal made in your kitchen, a shower to wash off the dust, and a warm bed to ease your bones.

No Trailer

Sure, you can strap your toys to a trailer and tow it behind your RV. However, if you’re looking for a bit more convenience, why not consider a toy hauler. There’s no need to mess with hooking up a trailer in addition to strapping down your goods, not to mention meeting length regulations. Instead, pack your four-wheelers, dirt bikes, motorcycles, or scooters inside your RV and ditch the trailer.

Safe Keeping

Just like when living in a traditional home, you want to make sure your belongings are stored safely. After a day on the trails, in the mountains, on a scenic ride, or exploring towns and countrysides, you can feel at ease that your toys are all safe and sound. Tucked conveniently inside your RV’s in-house garage, your vehicles will be safe from the elements along with any other threats.

If you want the ultimate travel experience, if you like to get out of the campsite and play around, a toy hauler may be your best bet. Convenient for carrying and storing your motorcycles and four-wheelers, toy haulers also bring peace of mind with access to transportation as well as protection.

Making Room in your RV Bathroom

For obvious reasons, most RVs have tiny bathrooms. The way campers are designed is actually quite impressive considering the fact that every key feature of a house is fit into such a small space, and the restrooms in these units are no exception. With smaller toilets and miniaturized bathtubs, RV manufacturers manage to squeeze all the bathroom essentials into an itty bitty space. 

The small size of an RV or trailer is great when you want to get up and go. After all, in general, the smaller the unit the easier it is to pack up and move. Smaller rigs also tend to require less in the way of gas, a huge bonus when you are traveling long distances. 

The downfall of these tiny homes on wheels shows up when you are trying to fit everything into such a small space. The bathroom can be especially difficult to make functional, as it is the size of a closet and needs to hold all of your family's toiletries and towels in addition to a sink, shower, and toilet. 

Try some of these tips for making your RV bathroom more functional and less cumbersome.

Over-the-Toilet Shelving

Many restrooms waste the space between the toilet and the ceiling. If this is the case in your bathroom, be sure to take advantage of the wasted space by adding an over-the-toilet shelf. These are easy to find, fairly inexpensive, and simple to install. The shelf makes a great storage spot for towels or extra toilet paper.

Cereal Container Trash Can

In most rigs, the space between the toilet and wall is too small to fit a regular sized trash can. For this reason, it is necessary to find a substitute. The plastic cereal containers found in many box stores are a good fit for this job and even come with a lid for keeping pets and babies out of the trash.

Wall-Mounted Soap Dispensers

Storing shampoo, conditioner, and body wash in wall-mounted dispensers is a great way to keep the shower area free of clutter. They will also keep your soaps firmly in place while you travel, resulting in less potential for mess. 

Over-the-Door Towel Hooks

Putting up a set of hooks on the back of your bathroom door will provide you a place to hang wet towels out of the way. Make sure there is a hook for each member of the family so you don't have any loose towels lying around.

Over-the-Door Shoe Pockets

Use an over-the-door shoe organizer on the opposite side of the bathroom door for holding sunscreen, makeup, face wash, toothpaste, and all the other odds and ends found in a bathroom. This keeps them easily-accessible, organized, and out of the way.

These are just some of the ways you can put the limited space in your RV to good use. Get creative and you are sure to come up with several more ways that work well for you.

When Your Home is Where You Park It: RV Insurance for the Full-Timer

A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but RVs are no longer "recreational" vehicles when you make one your home.  That means a full-time RV'er needs a different kind of insurance from the regular RV coverage.  These are some of the things to consider when buying a full-timer policy:

• A full-time insurance package should offer personal liability similar to a homeowners policy. This liability covers you for anyone injured in your RV, whether parked or in travel status.
• You probably already have collision on your RV, but as a full-timer you may also want to add comprehensive with total loss replacement coverage.  When the RV is your home and sustains significant damage, you will need to cover the cost of a different place to live. 
• If you have the total of all your belongings in the RV, you'll want to have good coverage on personal effects.  It's a good idea to photograph those possessions and catalog them, too, especially if you have any valuable items such as good jewelry.
• Check to see if the package includes roadside assistance coverage.  If it doesn't, add it!

While shopping for full-timer's insurance, consider these additions to your policy:

• Medical payments to cover injuries make an inexpensive supplement to health insurance. 
• Add something to cover emergency expenses, also.  If you must surrender the RV for several days for repair work, you will need hotel and meal expenses. 
• If your pet(s) live and travel in the RV, you will want to coverage for any veterinarian expenses if injured in an accident.  
• If you have health problems which could become serious at any time, check out medical evacuation coverage.

How much coverage you choose to put on your RV is, of course, up to you.  It's true that insurance coverage for full-time use of an RV will probably result in higher premiums, especially with some of the added options.  Remind yourself, however, that you won't have house insurance to pay, so that's a trade-off!