Lot of practical info already posted. You said you would like to do it right the first time, then here are the nice to have and more then doable. After three cabovers, 3/4 ton to 1 ton gas burners, we have a great combination now. Truck should be a Dually with a diesel, you pick what brand, that's a different discussion. Ours is a Ram dually cummins crewcab 3500 4x4. The camper should be minimum 10' with a slide or two with a dry bath. Ours is the Arctic Fox 992. What's nice about AF is they are full wall slide, makes a big difference inside. In the two years of owning this camper, we have made a few 10 day trips and dozens of three and four day trips. The camper holds 49 gallons of water, this allows the two of us shower daily on the shorter three and four day trips, we do try to stay where's there's hook ups whenever possible. The factory installed propane generator is great, I don't need to haul gasoline, AF gives you two 7 gal. Propane tanks, we never get low on any of this trips, love that. We never worry about running out of power. The downside of T/C is there is not a lot of storage. I tell my wife that I want to trade the pick up bed for utility bed, that add so much more storage, but she thinks their ugly. I had a 24' travel trailer, so truth be told, a T/C is no where near the space of a trailer, but you have to leave the boat behind. We love the flexibility of a T/C, walk in a couple different models and get the most truck you can buy under it,,,gregg