Hi, potential R-Pod owner but...

Oh, and as an introductory,  wife and myself have only ever camped in tents or taken advantage of some pretty nice inn's that the state parks of Indiana have. A little camping down in Kentucky also.  Now that  I'm semi-retired we hope to do a lot more camping and state park visiting here on out. The Pod looks like a really nice way to do that.

If the kids end up at opposite sides of the country, this looks like a viable mode of transportation. Gotta take your time getting there, eh? ;) I'm going to be scouring the search mode here, and everywhere, on the maintenance and mods to these Pods!

Even more congrats, then, on retirement being in your sights.  And Indiana looks like it has some awfully nice scenery.  When we picked up our Pod in Ohio, our return to TX took us through Indiana on the way to in-laws in MO.  Spent a lot of time on IN 46 (to get off the interstates for awhile).  Saw some nice camping areas .. Don't recall whether they were state or NFS.  Nice though.  It was early Oct so I think we were just ahead of most Fall colors.  Pretty country.

Nevermind, I found out that is an E2 that a bunch of ya'll use and are happy with.

Picked up the 179 yesterday! A few observations....

-Man, this trailer sits low! Had to get a different longer shank  on the WDH to lower the ball to the correct height. The dealer suggested an axle lift kit but I went with the longer shank....for now.

- The trailer pulls really nicely with the E2 WDH that they installed. It was rather windy yesterday and most of the 2+ hour trip home was on an interstate with lots of semi traffic but the effects from both were negligent.

- I mainly had the truck in overdrive with the cruise set and the only time I had it looking for different gears was when I hit somewhat hilly terrain and then I disengaged the overdrive until it flattened out again. But on flat terrain the rig drove smoothly.Driving that way seemed not to make my gas mileage suffer as much as expected.

- I'm gonna need to lengthen my x-mas list considerably as really no accessories were thrown into the deal ;)

Just bought a cover for it so that I can protect it from ole man winter and will be anxiously awaiting spring. Oh, I took a video of the guy that showed us the features, how they worked, and testing what could be tested as they already winterized the unit.

Congrats on our 179!!