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Saying a 1/2T can't tow 9000-lbs is like saying a 1T ton can't tow 24k. Your experience isn't any longer than mine, and possibly not deeper. You can make your own investigation into what proper hitch rigging can do for you, or not, that is your choice. (But your argument is easily picked apart).
So, go back to basics. How much money did your family spend on transportation fuel last year? If that number isn't available, then start up the log books that record it. None of what we try to accomplish around here can be done without accurate, complete records. Some see it as a method of controlling costs, reducing them to a minimum. My take is that I wish to be able to predict fuel costs (as a variable; thus my signature).
As DD pointed out above, there is more than one way to skin a cat. And one of those ways is to reduce the gallons used as the dollar price per gallon rises. I cut annual city miles from 12k to 10k while still getting everything done. And increased in-town mpg from 18 to 23 in that same period.
From $2,670 to $1,740 (at a constant fuel price). Same "work" in less miles and with less fuel burned. Fewer trips driven more skilfully. That $900 could pay for a good bit of pleasure travel.
So, with the same point I tried to make above about a WDH -- approach from a different angle -- see where (as DD notes) 18 becomes 19 becomes 20. One could also say, "I've banked 4-gls this week towards travel." For me it was to cut out an average of 40-miles per week. Increased mpg was icing on the cake. Trip plan, route plan . . terms you're already familiar with.
This is just an example.
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