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    Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 4:41pm
Hi, 

It's Kristy, I just wanted to check and get advice from r-pod owners.  I want the r-pod but my husband wants something else.  Can anyone give me a success story I can give him about the Rpod?  

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Welcome.  Just about everyone here is probably a "success".  Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 6:08pm
What does hubby want?  Maybe someone from here went from the same camper to the r-pod.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 6:28pm
Welcome, what kind of camper do you have.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 8:41pm
   I think everyone would agree that the r-pods are easy to tow and back into small spaces. You do not need a large tow vehicle and you get good MPG considering you are towing a camper. The quality is good as far as campers go and you have a lot of comfort features in a small camper. The only down side and not everyone may agree and that is they are a little small but being small has advantages. Hope this helps. Would like to add the shape attracts attention and you may have people asking you to have a look inside or wanting to have a picture of it. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 10:10pm
Welcome Kristy T....I am new here too. Like you I want the R-pod so bad I can almost taste it. My problem is we have a camper I have to sale first! Since 2006 we have gone from a 28ft toy hauler,downsized to a 24 ft and again to a 21 ft. I want to go smaller to the 179 R-pod,there is just the 2 of us and mostly we just week end or week long trips.
All the reasons we want the R-pod are listed by others above so I will not re-list them. Good Luck in your search,keep hanging out here to learn lots of great things about the great little R-pods.

Happy Camping
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Sep 2014 at 3:29am
Originally posted by David and Danette

  The only down side and not everyone may agree and that is they are a little small but being small has advantages.


I think our 179 is just right for a couple.  We just spent 30 days in ours and I could have done it forever.   We aren't just a couple but travel with two 50+ lb dogs too!  No problem.
Small is an advantage- we camped in several spots where we simply could not have gotten in the spot with something much larger-   that is priceless late in the day when the only spot available is small because others had to pass it up that couldn't fit their 30 ft'er and massive pickup in the spot!
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Welcome to the group!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Sep 2014 at 1:11pm
Definitely advantages to the size.  Speaking of tours, which David and Dannette mentioned above, wait until each person realizes you have all the same stuff as the big rigs - bathroom, kitchen, etc.  Each tour you'll get the same amazement.  Everyone now is lucky though, many people have seen the pods, we don't give as many tours as we used to.  The first few years we gave 2-3 tours every day we were in camp.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Sep 2014 at 7:03pm
I just got an idea- since I spent around $3k for gas on our 30 day trip-

I figure a tip jar for tours would be in orderBig smile
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