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Originally Posted by nikstep
One of the bigger investments is the tent, we are right now thinking of buying a
MSR Mutha Hubba NX 3-Person Tent. My thoughts:
- 3 person, so we have room for gear in the dry and a bit more room if we need to spend a day in the tent.
- The Mutha Hubba is light
- Fair price
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I won't pretend like I'm a master long-term camper. But.
1) I would worry about packed size more than weight. You're on a motorcycle - you don't care if the tent is too heavy for a backpacker to carry on a month-long hike. You can trade off the lightness for cheapness and/or ruggedness in other models.
2) 500 euros seems like an awfully big part of the gear budget. Unless you and your partner are very keen campers, you may find that for a large part of your RTW trip, you will have options for sleeping indoors that will be much more preferable. Developing countries will simply be cheap by Western standards; developed countries will have restrictions on wild camping, and official campsites will often cost the same as a decent hostel.
This is not to say "don't carry a tent" - more to say "don't make camping the center of your strategy". Spend a hundred euros on a *fine* tent instead of five hundred euros on an *excellent* one. Those four hundred euros will get you much further in experiences. (Speaking as some whose hundred-euro Coleman Darwin 2 tent has lasted fine through multiple trips.)
3) That particular model seems to have a lot of unhappy owners on Amazon at least.
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