Visa Travel Trailers in Texas

Also, Visa travel trailers are easy to disconnect from tow vehicles and “set-up” at campsites, allowing more time for traveling greater distances before winding down and relaxing outdoors.

During the first week of November, we used a Visa model 19 ERD on a 7-day camping trip that included stops at camp grounds along the lower Colorado River in central Texas where we kayaked, played golf, fished, rode mountain bikes and even sighted American Bald Eagles. Fall colors were visible in the trees. Skies were clear and temperatures were mild by day, crisp and cool at night. Migratory birds were moving into the Texas Hill Country for the winter.

I’m the owner and general manager of Topper’s Camping Center, www.toppersrvs.com, an RV dealership located in the northwestern suburbs of Houston near Waller, Texas. My wife, Janis, and I took a model of one of our dealership’s newest line of campers for a demonstration run during a 7-night, fall RV trip the first week of November. It was our first experience with a true “ultra-lite” travel trailer.

Because the camper was so small and easy to use, we didn’t hesitate to move it every two or three days to different camp locations a few hours farther up river where the water was clearer and the hills were progressively taller. Our camps were at Bastrop State Park, Inks Lake State Park and the LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority) campground on Lake Buchanan in the Canyon of the Eagles. All these campgrounds were packed with other campers on weekends, yet almost empty during the week, with people sleeping in ground tents, pop-ups, travel trailers, fifth wheels and a few motor homes.

We spent a lot more quality time outdoors when using a small, “ultra-late” RV trailer, whether active or relaxing outside under the large roll-up awning which is standard Visa trailer equipment. Our trailer was equipped with a high-definition TV antenna and reception was good at each stop but the large trailer windows provided for such great views, we were constantly drawn outdoors.

The distance from a comfortable chair near a campsite fireplace to the refrigerator inside a Visa camper was just a matter inches or at most only a few feet away. I also enjoyed opening the refrigerator door at night just to see the intense, blue LED lighting inside.

When it was time to shower or go to sleep, the small Visa trailer provided amazingly big interior space for basic needs. Our 19ERD model had a walk-a-round queen size bed, for example, and almost 7-feet of interior ceiling height as well as an outwardly curving shower curtain rod. There was a lot of room for a larger person like me, at six feet two inches tall, weighing in at more than 200 pounds.

We pulled the Visa 19 ERD behind my F-150 Ford pickup and carried our mountain bikes in the rear. The single-axle trailer turned on a dime when I was backing it into some tight campground parking sites framed by small trees, yet it pulled straight as an arrow in Houston’s high-speed, narrow-lane freeway conditions. With a normal size V-8 engine in my truck, the Visa - at only 3039 pounds as ours was equipped with options - was barely noticeable in tow while on cruise control.

I’ve had a lot of experience pulling all types of trailers with different size tow vehicles but I’ve never pulled a trailer as easily before or with less stress. Visa is the lightest and most attractive trailer I’ve ever taken outdoors.

Other campers walked right up to our trailer and asked questions about it. They assumed it was brand new because it looked so different. They wanted to know how light and easy it was to tow and how big, or small it was inside.