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    Posted: 12 Aug 2015 at 11:44am
We live in San Diego, and travel a lot along 395. One of our favorite spots (usually last or first) is Tuttle Creek, a BLM campground near Lone Pine.  Rate is only $5 per night (or $2.50 with the Golden Geezer pass).  Beautiful views, never full, and you can explore the Alabama Hills nearby (lots of movies filmed there).  We're heading back to Yosemite next week, and our first stop is Tuttle Creek.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Aug 2015 at 12:56am
Nice, Dropkick. We enjoyed that trip and the scarcity of traffic and cooler temps. Post some pics if you can.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Aug 2015 at 12:44am
I hope to be headed up that exact piece of road in the next couple weeks :)  We NEED that weather!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Jul 2015 at 11:03am
Hi,
In that photo we are towing with a Toyota Tacoma. It did strain a bit going over mountain ranges. So I traded up to a 2006 Tundra with a 4.7 litre V8 which should do better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jul 2015 at 9:37pm
What are you towing your RP 179 with?  Your pickup looks a lot like hours (ours is a Nissan Frontier). We are brand new to the 179, and finding it feels just a bit heavy behind our 6 cylinder Frontier. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Jul 2015 at 3:03pm
Scenes like that bring back memories of some notorious camping trips in the tent trailer.  One can hardly hear the wind blowing in the rPod.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Jul 2015 at 1:44pm
Thanks- yes, it was looking real ominous and stormy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2015 at 11:15pm
very ominous...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2015 at 8:13pm
Nice picture!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2015 at 6:24pm
we took our 179 on a maiden voyage up into the Sierras from Az. This was early June. The plan was to explore Colorado but the weather was so bad we re-routed west. As you can see we caught weather there too.
Pod pulled fine.

Morgan & Tammy


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