Yes! And we survived… for the most part. Part of our decision on doing this was thinking: could we live in such small quarters? We realized that when we were home, we were either on the sofa, at the dining table, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, or in bed. This fifth wheel has all of the above, but a little smaller. My tools have been downsized from my big rolling toolbox to five ammo boxes of various sizes. The oven in this thing is crap, but it is the same in almost all of them. The good side is that it comes with a microwave / convection oven and Claudia has mastered cooking anything in it that she could make in the old oven. The big hassle so far is moving day. It starts the night before after dinner as we break things down and put stuff away. Evening checklist is 16 things, morning list is 13. The only bad things that have happened so far were on moving days. Storage is another issue. The rv has a limit of about 2900# of personal belongings – who could bring that much? WE CAN! At the first weighing, we were 300# shy of our max. We have put more into storage but I know we are still up there. Driving this big setup is not to bad, actually not much worse than the Frontier pulling the popup. Just did our first mountain pass – Monteagle, northwest of Chattanooga – 5% down for about 5 miles. I only touched the brake once when cars in front slowed to pass a semi. The truck downshifts and applies the engine brake automatically. Just set the cruise control. I do have one issue – even being short, I continue to bump my head on a regular basis. So, we continue onward.

We have to stop letting Ringo navigate

We both like Chattanooga and have put it on our list of places to consider for retirement