My R Pod

Podding in the snow!! Gotta like it!!!

Hi, I'm Julie!
I live in Alaska and bought my 179 in August. I used it every weekend until two days before the snow flyed. Here, we have to thoroughly winterize our RVs and make sure that they are covered to prevent snow load damage and absolutely no water in the system. I found this was pretty easy do do with the low point drain lines with the exception of the water heater! Geez! Try having the weight of the bed on top of you as you are trying to find the shut offs. Only my legs sticking out, wagging around. Probably looked pretty comical! I'll learn a better way of doing this, I'm just a novice.

My J Pod, that's what we call it, is all tucked in and it's little cozy, ordered that from the dealer, fits perfectly. I miss it and will pull it out as soon as I can in spring. So meanwhile, I am ordering a vintage awning, deluxe mattress, and vintage folding aluminum chairs for it. Good thing our winters aren't any longer cuz on line shopping can get to be a bad thing!

I wanted to attach pictures but they are too large and couldn't figure out how to resize them on my phone. Maybe when I get to my laptop I can figure it out, or any advice from you guys would be appreciated.

So jealous that many of you are still camping!!

eiluJ
and Pearl, yellow labrador

Bravo Julie,  I think all of us have had the 'honor' of swimming, wagging around under the mattress on our maiden voyage of turning those 3 valves :):):) ! As you will see on other posts an opening cut-out above the valves will make this chore much easier and using a short 3' piece of 2 x 4 or 2 x 6 propped up under outside edge of the mattress works wonders.  We are fortunate that we can park our pod in our old horse barn during the winter months.  We have to be careful backing in and pulling out however in that we only have about 10" on either side to get it in.

Spend some time on this site and navigate around on the various posts.  Much expert advise will direct you on your dilemma on resizing your photos so you can post. 

Have you had the joy of giving tours with your 179?  We have had our 177 since March of 2011 and rarely do we go anywhere where we don't give at least one tour.

Welcome.  Be sure to actually drain the water heater using the low point drains before turning those 3 valves (or you can drain it using the anode rod plug).  See the link in my signature for winterizing instructions.

We live in Alaska too. Super excited to buy our rpod 182G and go camping this summer :)