Choosing a rear kitchen travel trailer is more than just selecting a vehicle—it’s about tailoring our travels to fit our lifestyle, particularly if cooking and comfort are at the top of our list. Here’s what I learned from stepping inside this kind of trailer – ideally so you can decide if this floorplan is a fit for your road adventure too.
What is a Rear Kitchen Travel Trailer and Why Choose One?
Rear kitchen travel trailers have the kitchen located at the back of the vehicle, which offers several distinct advantages. This separation – the kitchen here, the bedrooms over there – enables me to cook or snack whenever necessary without having to worry everyone else to sleep ..
- Personal Insight: Our kitchen is in the rear. This keeps food odours and noise away from our center-of-trailer living space.Being said, it is convenient for us as it allows silence to those who choose to relax or do other quieter activities without being bothered.
- Metaphor: For me, the rear kitchen is like a silent backbone of our travel experience, always there on the background but the actual base of the good food and peace of mind, which other part of the space gets.
How to Evaluate Travel Trailers with Rear Kitchen Floor Plans
Choosing the right floor plan is crucial and for us, it’s about balancing the flow of movement with adequate space utilization.
- Case Study: We found it incredibly claustrophobic when we walked through different models. If more than one of us had to move out of the behind at the same time, oof! . After a considerable amount of time, we got a design where the kitchen was smartly installed at the rear, which gave the chance to both of us to walk easily and better use the space.
- Personal Insight: As for you, my advice is to think about how you will actually use each area. We opted for a layout which, among things, oozes of kitchenware storage, as a result, it not only allowed us to get by but it also became a source of our delight.
When to Consider Travel Trailers with Rear Kitchens for Optimal Use
Getting it right means that we get the right trailer at the right time – a time that affects both what we can get and how willing the seller is to part with it for us.
Seasonal Considerations
The appeal of a rear kitchen can vary with the seasons. For us, using our trailer during the fall has always been ideal.
- My own miniscule personal insight: now that weather has turned chilly and wet out there, cooking in comfort – as well as cooking for comfort – is one joy of every autumn season, when out here the Remington stove keeps the back part of the trailer warm no matter how miserable it is in the big dark world outside. I bake all day long. The rear kitchen keeps the warmth where we need it—around us and our food.
To Maximize Our Investment in Travel Trailers with Rear Kitchens
Considering our travel trailer as a long-term investment has made us take care of it and be the ones to customize it regularly.
- Personal Story: It was not long ago when we made a decision to upgrade our kitchen appliances and add custom storage solutions to our trailer which in turn made it a space that was truly ours. It’s our home away from home, customized to meet our needs perfectly.
“Home is where we park it.”“ The best trips don’t necessarily provide answers to problems at home, but they should transcend and transform the self by answering, or leading you on the road toward answering, questions you didn’t even know to ask in the first place.” — Jeff Johnson From my personal experience, choosing a rear kitchen travel trailer has been about more than convenience—it’s been a game-changer in how we experience our travels. Being unpushed, the separation idea is a reason for us to embrace it; we get to experience it versus opting for other available ones. If your kitchen is very dear to you and you are not willing to have a compromise with the comfort or functionality while you are able to explore, this might also be the ideal setup your like.
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An Unexpected Breakfast Fiasco
Imagine then a peaceful morning in Yellowstone, when the bird-chatter and the sound of bacon sizzling in the pan are the only noises. There I was in our beloved rear kitchen travel trailer, feeling like the king of my little mobile castle.While I was cooking the bacon, I noticed that the back of the kitchen was designed very cleverly so that the area where people sleep doesn’t smell of bacon.
Then everything went wrong. I decided to make some pancakes in addition to the bacon.
I was half asleep and used baking soda instead of baking powder. This resulted in pancakes which could have passed for UFOs.
When I put them on the plates they crashed down like wrecking balls.My wife asked with one eyebrow raised, “Do you plan on entering a frisbee tournament with those?” I replied sheepishly, “No, I just thought we could try out some new technology that makes breakfast fly.” It was a total failure in the field of culinary experimentation but a success in terms of early morning entertainment.
The Great GPS Snafu
Further down that same year in the course of a trip along the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway, our portable navigator grew some hilarity bones. When we neared an especially narrow street, the GPS joyously screamed , “Turn left and drive straight into the Pacific Ocean.” I paused to process this; had a bored mermaid with a bizarre sense of humor reprogrammed our GPS? In jest, I said to my wife, “ Well, honey, it appears we’ve upgraded ourselves to a submarine package! ” The lunacy of driving our travel trailer into the ocean was absolutely hilarious and for a moment, I pondered about the possibilities of an amphibious RV.
Would that make me a captain instead of a driver? I went on to list the advantages of owning a travel trailer that could also function as a boat in a mock-serious tone; “ Just imagine waking up to an ocean view every morning without having to pay beachfront property prices! ” The irony was not lost on us as we left the coastline and took the less aquatic path.
Humorous Conclusion
In the world of rear kitchen travel trailers, life is never dull. These stories, albeit that they are underlined with all kinds of problems, are the things that remind us that every journey has its adventures—quite often they are among us without being seen and very often we are taken by surprise by them. Basically, I am beginning to have a good time making jokes about my blunders and rousing others to play their part in the joke. After all, isn’t laughter the best travel companion? So, if you’re thinking of joining the ranks of happy-go-lucky travelers in their rear kitchen-equipped chariots, remember, the road less traveled often comes with incorrect GPS directions and breakfast experiments gone awry. But that’s what makes the journey memorable, right?
“Adventure is just bad planning.” — Roald Amundsen”I am not lost, I am exploring.” — Jules Verne. If you think you’d like the lifestyle, remember: pancakes that look like new kitchen tiles can happen to anyone. Because the journey is all about the story you can tell, not the place you got to.