Winterization

As I just mentioned on another thread, removing the intake hose is an awful idea.  All campers must be winterized.

Mountain Mist, welcome back.  I have mine up for sale but I don't have pics.

Sounds like you are seeing my pic in my signature.  I don't have any pics in my for sale listing here.  We love our pod but there are several things we need to find solutions for, unfortunately a mod would only fix one of them.

Our kids are getting bigger.  We thought they could share the dinette until they were done with camping but the complaints about X being on Y's side of the bed have been non-stop.  I've considered adding a temporary bunk above the dinette.  Wouldn't be too hard and would solve the problem.

I'm tired of climbing over my wife when I get out of bed in the middle of the night.  This might be tolerable if we had the 177, I could climb out at her feet, but no easy solution for this in the 171.  We put a step stool on the floor every night which helps a lot, but it is still a pain.  A walk-around queen would solve this and you don't need to go much larger to get one.

A dry bath would be great.  I could live with the wet bath if this was my only complaint.  It isn't a huge issue, but moving to a slightly larger trailer will solve this too.

I've hated the noise of the A/C in the pod since day 1.  I have a long thread here discussing alternatives but I'd rather not have to.

I responded to your questions about winter camping in another thread, bottom line, it isn't a big problem but you might have to winterize depending on how long the temps will be below freezing.