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    Posted: 28 Apr 2017 at 12:30am
Hi. My girlfriend and I have just acquired a 2011 RP-172 from my daughter who is moving to Europe.
I sold my truck camper and will use the pod to camp up in the high country in southern B.C. near the Idaho border. We enjoy the boondock type camping in forestry sites up in the Purcell and Selkirk mountains. Because of the high clearance,  we can pull it over rough logging roads. My tow vehicle is a Dodge Ram diesel so no issue there. We spend our winters in Arizona and Mexico but in a larger rv.
The pod will just be used in the summer for our "get off the beaten track" type camping. Will be spending most of our summer hanging out in the Kootenay's in some pretty remote areas.
Will be following this owners forum to get ideas re: addons/mods for the pod and maybe boondocking tips.
Thank you. Terry and Kathy (AKA Kootenaypod.)
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Location: Lyndonville, VT
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Posts: 4518 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Apr 2017 at 6:11am
Welcome to the group!! Congrats on your 172!
Leo & Melissa Bachand
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Posts: 15 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Apr 2017 at 5:05pm
Congrats to you, sounds like the best kind of camping. I just spent my first night last night in our new178, little shake down cruise...will watch for your posts, my wife and I would love to see Canada. We're dowm on the Central Coast of Calif. 
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Posts: 9 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Apr 2017 at 8:23pm
Hi everyone! I recently purchase a second hand RP- 183 G but it need some repair so I can't use it yet. For now. I would like to know more information about owning an R-Pod so I joined this community.
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Hi. I'm kind of a desert guy so we spend a good part of the winter in the Arizona desert. The only part of California that I have spent some time in is the Palm Springs area. Nice but a little too busy and crowded.
So if you're ever up our way, you will see nature at it's best. No tourists, no box stores, no traffic but lots of back country/mountain camp sites. We take the atv with us to really get off the beaten track.
Take care. Terry  
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Posts: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 May 2017 at 10:50pm
Greetings Martinmyer, pods are great and you will meet some really cool people.  Forest River will leave a reasonable mind awash in bewilderment when searching for the answer to "why did they do that" .   They are light and inexpensive.  Their attention to detail is if you peering through a hallucinating haze.  I have a 176t with the tent.  The screws were missing holding the tent in place. I know this because to repair the tent you have to remove the screws.  Its little things just like that, nothing catastrophic, just annoying.

Love my Rpod and I tell people to get one because you can buy a more expensive trailer and the trim still falls off.  They are the biggest, nicest, lightest TT you can get for the money.  Its that simple.  Bring a glue gun and some patience.  Maybe they don't use glue guns at the factory because of habitual sniffing !

They go everywhere and I laugh at others with their fully assembled trailers trying to find a camping spot big enough.  

Favorite feature:  R POD people are really cool people

Derek 
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Posts: 9 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2017 at 9:58am
Hello All,
Just bought "Peas-in-a-Pod" (RPod that is) and a used Honda Pilot with which to tow it. Runs wonderfully together. The other "peas" in this 'pod' are 2 elderly collies. Anyone know whether or not there is an accessorie that would cover the top of the 2-burner gas stove while we are working on the counter so as not to get the burner space messy? Can't wait to roll . . . .
Carolyn
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2017 at 2:56pm
Originally posted by Carolyn

Hello All,
Just bought "Peas-in-a-Pod" (RPod that is) and a used Honda Pilot with which to tow it. Runs wonderfully together. The other "peas" in this 'pod' are 2 elderly collies. Anyone know whether or not there is an accessorie that would cover the top of the 2-burner gas stove while we are working on the counter so as not to get the burner space messy? Can't wait to roll . . . .



This is what I have: 2 burner stove cover

Shop around, as you may find it for less.
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Posts: 6418 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2017 at 8:16am
I built one. Take a cutting board that is a little bigger than the stove. Add legs to it at the corners so it sits just above the top of the pan holders. If you get one big enough, you could make a rim all the way around and then when inverted, it becomes a serving tray.

I have pictures of the one I made in my mods (link below).
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Posts: 9 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2017 at 10:17am
Great idea. The knobs on my 2-burner are higher than the burners, so I could go to that height. Thanx so much.
Carolyn
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