hi I'm Ronda I'm Angie and we are Adventures in NoMadness at the Escape Industries showroom in
beautiful Chilliwack Canada so for those of you that are torn between the 17 and the 19
here are the considerations
no you don't have to be this tall to be in a 17. I fit in here perfectly fine the headroom
is perfectly great in here for someone who's 5'8 and really there's plenty of room to move around
however the aisle space Angie and I in the 21 can actually pass shoulder to shoulder if we want to
and here it would be gut to gut why would you want to go with a 17 is so tiny
when you could go up a couple feet to a 19 and have a lot more storage space well small things
deliver big packages and this is no exception this is the lightest weight trailer that escape makes
and the smallest in terms of footage so the 17 is only 2,290 pounds so super lightweight also
single axle which means that you can get this particular trailer in some really tight spots
and it's very durable and very versatile this right right here we're in the 17b that
be for bathroom it's it's very versatile in terms of your seating and your bed this is great in my
opinion for singles or for couples that are you know looking for weekend trips or you may be
a week long here or there however do you know one married couple that's on a big major trip
great in the 17 and we also have some friends in Alaska married couple with three little
kids and they're in a 17 and it works perfectly perfectly for them so this is going to be more of
a minimalistic trailer not very much storage space and because of that there's also a lot of options
you cannot get in this particular one I'm going to read them off because it's a little bit of a list
you cannot get the three burner cooktop the flush mount oven the convection microwave,
foot flush toilet, or an upgraded air conditioning unit to the coleman other than that there's a lot
of customization you can still do with this one but you can tow this one with a small suv you know
you could probably tow it with a subaru outback or something like that so it's it's very lightweight
one of the cool things about this particular trailer is it has really good tank sizes the
fresh on this is 20 gallons the gray is 28 and it has a 13.2 black tank now in the 17a
that obviously does not have a bathroom so that one does not have the black tank but it still
has a gray tank that's fine there's actually a lot of people that don't want to have a bathroom
that's great for folks that are in the campgrounds that use the campground toilets there or
if they're okay putting up their own pop-up potty tent with the portable toilet
which we've done ourselves when we had our teardrop and no bathroom in it
works pretty good if you don't mind dumping your own toilet all the time
okay so the 17a has a permanent bed up front but the 17b is a little bit more versatile and some
some people really like that now in the back here we got this great dinette you can make this into
a bed if you want that to be your permanent bed or that could be your permanent bed so either way
you can make the beds however you want or have the size of dinette that you want
okay I'm only five two I only have a few inches before I hit my head
I think Ronda would hit your head in here uh pretty tight in here but totally doable
wow the 19. this is a great model in fact we came really close to buying it but here's one
of the downsides just like the 17 the batteries are outside but with the 17 the batteries are
on the back side freeing up the entire storage box in the front so if if I'm looking at pros and cons
between those two models I would say it's a small RV and you don't want to give up any
of your storage space and the storage box is one of those places so this has less storage space up
front than the 17. another difference you go from a 17 to a 19 and now you're into a full-size RV
and that means dual axles yes the downside of a dual axle RV is that's four tires to buy not two
four breaks to check not two but if one of said tires blows out you could still hobble down the
road on three tires you can't hobble down the road on one so the nice thing about the 19 is
you have now jumped into a full-size RV which means more storage space and a queen-size
bed plus the dining space is a little bit bigger you can fit four people here that you saw in the
17 it was really a two person this makes down into a bed and you could also add the cot option
so you potentially can now fit quite a few people in here on beds when you're camping that's also
four inches wider and to us that makes all the difference in the world I'm working at the kitchen
oh there went my fingers oh no no squirt
what about tank size well actually the tank sizes are pretty much the same except for one
thing fresh water and this one holds 28 versus the 20 in the 17.
there you are again the bathroom catching me in the bathroom
this is I think about the same size but I think the headroom is more I have more space to do this
not that you're going to be in here doing this but yeah a little bit roomier in here but
um these bathrooms are tight no matter which one I mean I'm just squiggling back and forth
a little bit and I'm hitting one hip on the sink and one hip on the on the toilet
well this is a composting toilet this is an option you can get uh you cannot get this in the 17 but
it does make it quite a bit higher so for me being short it is kind of a little bit weird
and um yeah it's definitely an option you can get but I would definitely do your research before
getting a composting toilet it all comes down to size and what you want basically the 17 is a
lot lighter by about a thousand pounds so that's a considerable amount it is smaller more versatile
you can get it in and out of some really tight spots if that's the type of camping you want to do
for full timing there's there's no way we could I admire the people that can
camp and spend lots of time in that kind of space it's a very minimalistic type of trailer but very
lightweight versatile the 19 for me is definitely a much bigger step up a thousand pounds more in
weight so you will need a larger vehicle but it does have the permanent clean bed there's a lot
to love about it as far as the amount of storage and I'm very partial to having a tandem axle
trailer myself that was actually one of our requirements so we didn't want slides which
you won't find in any of the Escapes and we wanted dual axle dual propane
and lots of storage so that really drove a lot of our requirements and the ability to upgrade now
one of the things that I would say if I was trying to decide between a 17
and a 19 Angie said size matters sometimes small size is important so you know maybe you're you're
not going out in it a lot and you need a and it's important to have a place where you can store it
so think about your storage space for the RV when you're not using it and you know is that
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