Nice one (insert your name here)
This topic doesn't usually come up at all in the forum; indeed, I think you're the first one to mention it...today! Sarcasm? You bet. Tell me bud, if you had the chance, would you not upgrade to something younger or more to your liking? Well, some of us have over the years. I started with van where you had to block off the outside door just to use a porta- poti lav. With 3 children in tow (pardon the expression) and two dogs crammed into a caravan, you would think it unwise at best, sardine at worse.
However, we loved it, and over the years, we went through it all, from damp walls to electrics that, frankly weren't (ha the spell checker let through "weren't" who'd a thunk it!)(doh) but all the time we tried bettering ourselves, looking for that Holy Grail, the perfect caravan and we had it, we finally got there. We have had to sacrifice both money and time, blood and humility. We no longer make storm straps out of the wife's old bra's or got the kids to stand out in the rain holding the indoor aerial just to get a decent picture (still with me dear reader?) We were there, sitting pretty, ha loving it. Then Bailey brought out a new Senator, damn you Bailey!
Ok, to the point. Doesn't matter what you have, what you tow with, what you tow and who you go with. Does not matter where when and how, it only matters to you. That's your world, nobody else's. I have a new caravan and a very good tow car, does it make me a better person (yes, ******, did I say that?) NO. I look at the older vans and I think, "hey I started there, you've got some fun coming your way, hope you enjoy it", no animosity, no looking down on others and no wishing I was elsewhere. 4X4 owner yes, twin axle owner yes, beer drinker with a small erection (it's a porch, I tell ya) yes. Snob..no. Please don't label us all, 6 years of vanning is great, long may it continue, just don't make me give up my Jacuzzi. It's nearly 8 o'clock brandy is taking its toll and Top Gear is on the TV, hope this doesn't offend, I'm just trying to say we live under the same sky.