I wrecked our escaPod

Glad to hear of the progress being made! You will just have to double the amount of summer camping you do, to make up for the lack of spring camping!

The latest updates are:
The Escape finally got finished. Our son-in-law and daughter went and picked it up. I gave them power of attorney, and the took it over to CarMax and sold it for us. It turns out the damage was not as bad as it appeared. Not that it wasn't bad, but just not as bad as it could have been. I really liked the Escape. However, since we bought the Frontier and we don't need two vehicles, it made sense to sell the Escape.

Second, I got a more exact estimate of when our escaPOD will be leaving here to go to the factory for repair. It will be the 24th of April. It is scheduled to go into the factory on the 1st of May. I was told to expect it to be there a month, although it could possibly be done sooner.

I asked if while it was there, it could be modified (with me, not insurance paying the difference in price) so that one of the awnings could be retrofitted. The answer was no. I figured it didn't hurt to ask. I'll just keep using my homemade awning.

The good thing: Our escaPOD is going to be repaired.
The bad thing: We will miss out on any camping trips this spring.

Originally posted by StephenH The main thing we will need quickly is a way to get our R-Pod to Camping World in Salt Lake. The car will take some time to repair. The tow operator said it would probably be three weeks or more. The R-Pod can probably be patched up enough temporarily to get it home, provided we can get the TV fixed or replaced. I have a dash cam, and have the video of the incident. If the 'Pod's rear end had not hit the guardrail, we might have slid straight enough to recover. I think it was that hit that kicked us around the other way and caused the jack knife that did the damage to the Escape. <snipped out photos> The lift-gate is also pushed over and out of position. I think the Equal-i-zer hitch kept it from continuing to swing around and cause more damage based on the damage to the bumper at the lower-right of the picture. In that respect, I am glad I got the Equal-i-zer hitch instead of the Andersen, which I don't think would have limited the swing in the same way.

I'm so sorry.  That must have been scary.  Thankful you are all okay and no one was hurt.   Save

It would be nice if we could coordinate being there at the same time. Our escaPOD won't be ready until around the end of May though unless they can get it into the factory earlier than 1 May. Thanks for the recommendation.

Thank you for the suggestions. We had not gotten that far in planning yet.

Edit:

I got an update from the insurance and Forest River. Our insurance will pay for the R-Pod to go from our house to the factory (estimated departure is the first week of April), but not for the return trip. We will go and pick our escaPOD up when repairs are completed, hopefully before the end of May.

On a per-mile basis, the trip from here to the factory is based on $0.87/mile. However, the return trip would be based on $1.47/mile. So we will combine retrieving our escaPOD with a camping trip after we pick it up.

We will have a full truck on the way up. There will be a lot of things we will need to put back in before we can use it. Other things can wait until after we get back home.