What I have noticed is more people driving or towing foreign vans, Burstner, Adria, Geist, Knaus etc even saw quite a rare Karmann on Damage Barton yesterday. A really nice guy and his wife pulled up next to me at Tintagel in a Burstner i890 elegance, biggest I've seen without slideouts! Really nice people no attitude etc just living it while they can and young enough to enjoy it

I'm with you with this one, why have two vehicles to MOT, insure, tax and maintain when you could just have one and a caravan.....

For two consequitive years - 2008 and 2009 - we rented Motorhomes for our extended tours of the Tuscany and Umbria regions of Italy. Advantages - a much higher level of comfort, water on tap during travelling without having to give a second thought to additional weight etc, no awning to erect to provide additional living space and finally, travel was much faster between overnight stops when compared to towing a caravan especially in hilly areas. Disadvantages - only one really and that is that we could have done with a car onboard for shopping and sightseeing for whilst it was possible with the Motorhome some of the area villages are quite small to negotiate.
The answer of course would have been a trailer with a small car attached which in fact is something we came across quite often. Unfortunately our finances do not run to this level of luxury especially when one takes into account servicing costs of two vehicles, taxes and insurances etc and last but no means least, where to park up the Motorhome off-season.
In all honesty though, were our financial situation to change as a result of a lottery win LOL then the Triton would be the first thing to go for whilst it provides us with good fun and we love it to bits, at the end of the day it only provides us with accommodation for a limited time of the year whilst a Motorhome would provide an extra dimension of comfort during that time. It would also be the case that we could use the Motorhome for a longer period during the year especially during the winter.
So yes, I'm all for these luxury Motorhomes dragging a trailer/car behind them if not actually in an enclosed onboard garage. If it's not going to leave you awake at night worrying how you're going to pay the darn thing off or how to meet the running costs then why not. Each to his/her own, we're only here the once so should make the most of it while we can.

We have had motorhomes, a campervan and Eribas.
There are distinct differences, bonuses and difficulties with each and all, which suit personal choices and circumstances.
I find it very sad that in all 'camps' there are people who complain about the others and take up the 'us and them' stance.
This seems more common on motorhoming forums but is a growing theme in caravan circles.
TonyP

In some respects you answered your own question, Aaron, when asking "where's the spirit of adventure in that?" I wonder how many of us started off our camping lives under canvas before eventually moving up to a caravan or camper bus. Other than the two adventures in rented Motorhomes the wife and I have spent 100% of our time under canvas and it was only late last year that I decided enough was enough with this crawling in and out of bed located on the floor - time to enjoy a bit more luxury in our later years. Hence the Triton so in one respect we've moved up from camping to glamping or glamerous camping to give it it's full title. The point I was trying to establish in my earlier post was that, circumstances i.e. finances allowing, it wouldn't be a giant step up to running a Motorhome with accompanying car if possible. To the purists of course camping equates to sleeping under canvas and even using our little Eriba's is not considered to be real camping. It's all horses for courses I suppose.

Re the year round use of the Motorhome. Yes, I suppose in many respects I'm referring to where we live although of course the reasoning could easily apply to a much lesser extent in the UK. Over here we are obliged to mount winter tyres over the winter months something I don't believe they even produce for caravans although I could be wrong of course. But the point being, if the wife and I could afford to run a Motorhome with all that is involved then we could use it for winter trips to areas a bit further south of us, or even into Austria, for our annual skiing excursions thereby saving on hotel costs. Many do it and in fact winter camping using Motorhomes in areas that are deep in snow has become a bit of a fashion.

We did see a very smart Morgan on a trailer yesterday and thought - yes, that's the sort of car you would have if into this way of touring.

Yes so do I!
It might not be animosity but there are often disparaging remarks made about 'tuggers and their antics' and the white box brigade, and similarly from the caravan side.
But you're quite right about feeling superior in an Eriba
I know of Eriba owners who, like me, say they can't stand caravans.

Which reminds me......I'm a bit sad that the Eriba name is now going to apply to all Hymer caravans. 😥

TonyP

When we moved up/down/sideways from canvas camping to an Eriba our oldest and most bonkers friend came up with

Caravamping - not quite a tent - not quite a caravan

Fangs for the reminder

I've mentioned from time to time that we bought our Eriba to try out the touring world to see if we liked it, we did intend to buy a Hymer motorhome if touring was for us. We quickly fell in love with our little Eriba and would find it difficult to part with. Mind you we still wonder what touring with a motorhome will be like so we will eventually either hire a motorhome to try it or possibly buy one and try it, still keeping Doo-Dah of course. We really do need to satisfy our curiosity regarding a motorhome as we have been wondering how that life is for over 25yrs. I think we get best of all world's at the moment, our awning is more like a tent really as it's the kyham motordome so we feel like we are tenters that have a luxurious fixed bed to climb into. Ellen.

Coach and Porches.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) At Holmsley, October 2011. The car on the trailer was a Porsche 911, with matching paint job.
The Eriba belonged to a taxi driver from Chichester.