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Topic: New R-Pod 180 owner

Posted By: Nlconner
Subject: New R-Pod 180 owner
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 6:23pm

Hello to the group! I just picked up a lightly used 2017 R-Pod 180. Very impressed with it as I just got back from a 2500 Mile round trip vacation with no major problems! Hope to learn AND teach a lot here!!

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Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 7:20pm

Welcome and Congratulations! You dove right into the deep end with a 2500 mile trip. We recently completed one almost 6500 miles. I hope you have many fine adventures and make many great memories in the process.

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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,...

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Former RPod 179
Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS

Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 8:25pm

Welcome to the forum. Great to hear you had a grand shakedown journey! Where did you go and what are your likes and dislikes of the 180?

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God's pod
'11 model 177
'17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost
Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake
"...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free."

Posted By: OldNeumanntapr
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 2:39pm

Congratulations!!! We recently bought a new 180 and we love it. Going to be heading to Carmel this weekend for the ‘Carmel Weenie Roast’, the Carmel Dachshund Club’s big meet up. There will be 300 doxies on the beach. The Oscar Meyer wiener mobile will be there. We have a reservation at a private park in Felton, in the redwoods near Santa Cruz. This will be our first trip away from home in the new rPod. Going to try out my new Equalizer WDH.

Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 9:44pm

Go to the Sanddab Restaurant on the commercial pier in Monterey, really good food great service. I've been going there for over 30 years.

http://sandbarandgrillmonterey.com - http://sandbarandgrillmonterey.com

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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost

Posted By: VictorVance
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 4:58am

Welcome and congratulations.

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Victor J Vance

Posted By: Live2Camp
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 8:09pm

Originally posted by OldNeumanntapr

Congratulations!!! We recently bought a new 180 and we love it. Going to be heading to Carmel this weekend for the ‘Carmel Weenie Roast’, the Carmel Dachshund Club’s big meet up. There will be 300 doxies on the beach. The Oscar Meyer wiener mobile will be there. We have a reservation at a private park in Felton, in the redwoods near Santa Cruz. This will be our first trip away from home in the new rPod. Going to try out my new Equalizer WDH.

I'll mention this in case you're not familiar with the area - be sure you get an early start to drive from Felton to Carmel. Traffic on any summer day, and especially a weekend, is extremely heavy between the Hwy 9 corridor (Boulder Creek, Felton) and Carmel/Monterey. Also check out the angle into your RV park before you commit to trying to turn in. The one I'm familiar with, because we have friends who live there, has such a sharp right turn into the park when coming from Hwy 1, that I had to jockey my pickup truck (no Pod) to make the turn. Feel free to send a PM if you want more details and don't want to include the name of the park here. In any case have a great trip! Sounds like a fun event and a great shake-down for your RPod!

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2017 R-Pod 179 HRE (the green one)
His:Ford F150 double cab 4WD; Hers/mine:Tacoma V6 double cab 4WD
Still love rugged, diggin' comfy too

Posted By: Live2Camp
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 8:13pm

Originally posted by Live2Camp

I'll mention this in case you're not familiar with the area - be sure you get an early start to drive from Felton to Carmel.

Hah! Never mind ... just saw that you already made the trip, sorry about not noticing the date. Trust it was great!

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2017 R-Pod 179 HRE (the green one)
His:Ford F150 double cab 4WD; Hers/mine:Tacoma V6 double cab 4WD
Still love rugged, diggin' comfy too

Posted By: OldNeumanntapr
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 8:38pm

Originally posted by Live2Camp

Originally posted by Live2Camp

I'll mention this in case you're not familiar with the area - be sure you get an early start to drive from Felton to Carmel.

Hah! Never mind ... just saw that you already made the trip, sorry about not noticing the date. Trust it was great!

Yes. It was fun but an exhausting weekend. We were up until 1:00 am Friday night / Saturday morning getting things ready. Up at 6:00 am and hitched up and left town at 7:30. Gas and breakfast in King City, then got to Carmel at 11:00 am. Had to find a residential street to park on because I had the trailer with me. The Dachshund meet up started at noon and check in time at the campground, in Felton, wasn't until 2. Wife wasn't happy with the location I chose to park. It was three blocks from the beach, but it was a good location. Wide enough street and no driveways to block. Plus, the trees were high enough that they wouldn't take out the top of the pod. Carmello street three blocks up from 12th and Scenic.

(I carried everything and had to make three trips. All she had were the dogs to deal with.)

Left Carmel at 5:30 pm and promptly got lost trying to find Hwy 1. Siri was NO HELP AT ALL! Traffic was plentiful but not too bad. It took about 90 minutes to get to the camp ground. (Smithwoods).

Checked in and immediately had to bathe the doxies because they were covered in sand. I set up my outside table under the outdoor shower and filled a plastic bin with warm water. After she would wash each dog I would off load the used sudsy water to a five-gallon bucket and dump it into a funnel I inserted into the sewer drain. (Didn't spill any water on the ground!)

After each of us took showers it was time to cook dinner. At this time it was after 11:00 pm. We wanted to cook something easy so we settled on bean, cheese, and turkey burritos. After grating the cheese and cooking the beans and meat She tells me that she forgot to pack the tortillas!!!!

So, We opened a bag of tortilla chips and made nachos!!!

I was planning on taking a bike ride in the morning but I was so tired that I slept until 10:30!

Had breakfast in the rPod and cleaned up, then packed down. Gas in Salinas and home by 6 pm. I would have liked to have stayed longer and ridden the steam train through the redwoods but I wanted to be home before dark to put the trailer away and I had to work the next day.

It was a fun weekend but...very rushed and exhaustive. Dogs had fun. They slept like logs!

Posted By: crw8sr
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 9:26pm

Congratulations!

Enjoy.

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Chuck & Lyn
Izzy, Morkie. RIP
Zoe Joy & Gracie, Yorkie
2018 R Pod 190
2019 Traverse

In moments of adversity;when life's a total wreck, I think of those worse off than me and really feel like heck.

Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2018 at 11:02pm

Originally posted by OldNeumanntapr

Had breakfast in the rPod and cleaned up, then packed down. Gas in Salinas and home by 6 pm. I would have liked to have stayed longer and ridden the steam train through the redwoods but I wanted to be home before dark to put the trailer away and I had to work the next day.

We hadn't ridden the train in years; decades actually, until we went down there last year and spent the day in Roaring Camp. We had a great time. We even enjoyed the mock "train robbery". At one point, we walked north along the old tracks and followed them north where they fade into the woods. Interesting history of the train route through the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River
2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost

Posted By: Live2Camp
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 12:31pm

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You should buy a lotto ticket for the simple fact that you were able to find street parking in Carmel at all, let alone on a Saturday, let alone with your RPod. You really lucked out! Quite a trip, glad you enjoyed it.

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2017 R-Pod 179 HRE (the green one)
His:Ford F150 double cab 4WD; Hers/mine:Tacoma V6 double cab 4WD
Still love rugged, diggin' comfy too