Table to Bed
George VondriskaI’ve complained (kind of a lot) about the table/bed combo thing in this camper. Check out this video to see what it takes to do the table to bed conversion, and how my 5’10” frame doesn’t fit on it. Insert eye roll…
I'm working on a 1997 Salem Forest River, 20 foot camper. And one of the things I learned early about this camper that I don't like is the table bed configuration here on the front end of the camper. It's a table by day. It's a bed by night. You got to swap back and forth obviously between the two and let's run a video here and I have a look at just what it takes to get from one to the other.
Ya see what I mean there, are you feeling what I'm laying down? So a couple of things come out of this one is that if I'm camping with somebody and I get up first and make coffee, I don't even have a place, except for outside, to sit and drink coffee while I'm waiting for the other person to get up. And then dude, just the constant back and forth, back and forth entailed. And I get it, like it's one of the things that we live with when we're camping is doing those conversions. But as I'm doing upgrades on this camper, I want to come up with a better idea and I want the table bed thing to go away.
With the original configuration, you had 3 bunks in the back. With 2 people, that means you can leave the table set up in the front. If you didn't fit in any of the bunks, you could lay diagonally on the front table/bed conversion.