I was in the same boat as you at one time.
I wanted to use a 23' marine vertical with a tuner but it dawned on me that with that antenna fixed to my RV it could limit my parking as I would not be able to use it without the absence of trees.
Many campsites that we have had in the nearly 40 years of RVing that we have did have trees and having such an antenna was not an option in my opinion.
At one point I did have an EZ-UP tri-pod that I could move around and I had an Outbacker on it and then changed to hamsticks later.
That afforded me more mobility but then I had to set it up and take it down.
I also had to set radials out needless to say.
I also wandered about kids wandering in and around it in the campsite.
I am quite happy with my 102" whip mounted high up on my rig. It's fed by an AH-4 tuner and the FT-897D. It's out of the way except for travel. I do have to tie it down (or remove the whip) as it's mount is only 1' from the top of the rig. On the other hand it tunes 6-40 and I get good signal reports.
I can also had a length of wire to it with an alligator clip to tune more bands if I want to.
But as you well know as a ham you have to adapt.
Gook Luck
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