Would you travel in this?

For the uninitiated, here are brief descriptions of common RV types:

• Class A -- the big diesel-pushers, same chassis as a city bus, usually 30 to 42 feet in length.  Most of these tow a car behind.
• Class B -- the little ones, cousins of the old Volkswagen camper, e.g. Westfalia, Roadtrek.  Need to be neat and orderly to own these.
• Class C -- van-style cab, range from 20-32 feet.  This is what Vagrant Van is.
• Travel trailer -- the kind you tow behind another vehicle.  Usually the towing vehicle is a truck, but a SUV or large car or even a Class B can do the trip.
• Fifth wheel -- A trailer on steroids that has grown an extension at the front.  5th wheels are towed by a full-size pick-up, often double axle.  The front of the 5th wheel connects by a towing ball hooked into the pan of the truck.  
• Truck camper -- The camper sits in the pan of a pickup, preferably a large one.

Once in a while we encounter a different breed of RV.  At Roca Azul we met a young couple who told us they had just escaped from the fast pace of Washington, DC.  They must have really wanted to get away to sleep in this vehicle!  The sleeping compartment on top pops up and you climb up the back of the SUV to crawl in. Fun, eh?

Here is a German-registered RV we spotted at Villa Corona.  Some Europeans ship their vehicles across the Atlantic in order to explore North America.  We have never figured out what the designers of these muscular trucks have against windows.

And finally, the purest form of camping.  These tents housed a youth group attending a retreat at Roca Azul.