Pet peeves

When we picked up our brand new 177 back in March 2011 the first and foremost issue was the awful mattress, after 3 attempts, nights, trying to sleep on it, I put up the white flag and purchased a Eurotop mattress.  Now 8 plus years later, just as comfortable and firm as the day we first got it.

Right up there, I think it is a tie for 1st place, was the poor engineering of the rubber flaps underneath the slide.  We live in mosquito, black fly, gnat territory in northern Michigan.  Our first ccouple attempts at camping in the UP of Michigan was a disaster - I would be up all night swatting full-blooded mosquitoes (mine) and by morning, it looked like a massacre with blood all over the walls and ceiling, my wife was NOT happy, neither was I.  Firgured out after the second night that the little blood sucker came in under the slide where there was a good 3/4 " gap between the rubber and the metal slide.  So I took off my undershirt, stuffed it in the "hole" and prayed to see good results, which I did.  Now, 8 plus years later I still use that old t-shirt to stuff the opening closed and NO MORE MOSQUITOES, BLACK FLIES, or GNATS nipping my blood during the night.  Yahoo!