New member and maiden voyrage
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Topic: New member and maiden voyrage
Posted By: historysteve
Subject: New member and maiden voyrage
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 10:55am
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Taking off in our only slightly used but new to us R-POD 179 (2017). We are calling it our shakedown cruise and we will be more daring and stay longer on another trip later in the month. Glad to meet everyone. Steve and Tracy
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Posted By: mjlrpod
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 11:19am
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Welcome and congrats. Do you have the Green model, or the Blue? there are several differences. ------------- 2017.5 Rp-172 2020 R-pod 195 2015 Frontier sv 4.0L 6cyl I'll be rpodding |
Posted By: historysteve
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 11:56am
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Blue, with the fishing frog on the side! Off to the mountains.... Steve
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Posted By: Monopod
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 11:59am
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Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 12:23pm
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Welcome and congratulations on your RPod. I hope you have many fun adventures and make many great memories with it. We've enjoyed our 2016 RP179 even though our planned trips for this year were cancelled/postponed. I'm hoping we can get a local camping trip in this month.
------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: mjlrpod
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 2:52pm
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Kewl, the blue model has some good add ons, like electric tongue jack, shower surround, longer dump tube storage etc.. Enjoy the mountains. ------------- 2017.5 Rp-172 2020 R-pod 195 2015 Frontier sv 4.0L 6cyl I'll be rpodding |
Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 7:17pm
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Enjoy your time in the Rockies! That is our favorite place to camp. Last September we spent a month between Cotopaxe, RMNP, and Arches. Is the air quality beginning to improve?
------------- 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: PilotPodder
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2020 at 8:43pm
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Congrats on the new to you 179! I still greatly enjoy my 2017. All the best! ------------- Portage, MI — 2017 RPod 179 - sold / 2017 Toyota Tundra — https://johnmarucci.com/r-pod-video-list/ - My RPod YouTube Videos |
Posted By: historysteve
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2020 at 10:50am
| Back from Maiden Voyage in the nearby mountains of Colorado. Learned a great deal about the 179 and had a great time. Still much to learn. Saw lots of deer, a few mountain goats, and smaller animals, including a squirrel who seemed to want to go home with us! Came home at the right time, since today it is snowing about 10 inches up there at 9,800 elevation where we were, and the weather down in the valley where I live has cooled forty-five degrees from our recent overheated temperatures of mid to high 90s.. There will be better fall camping weather ahead. |
Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2020 at 9:17pm
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Welcome to the club Steve (and crew)! What are you pulling your pod with? ------------- bp 2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
Posted By: Dirt Sifter
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2020 at 9:46pm
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Welcome! Our first Rpod was a "barely used" 2017 179. Over time we found evidence that it'd been to Alaska and all over the west. We towed it thru OR, ID, and western MT without any issues other than a tail light that went off till we took it out, then it'd stay on till it didn't. I added a shelf over the bed on the valences for light storage and a longer sewer hose holder. We liked it well enough we moved up in space with the same general layout. I thru a set of cable chains in the back of the storage compartment for just what you were talking about. Have fun! ------------- Greg n Deb 2020 195 HRE '07 Tundra 5.7L., '17 Tacoma 3.5L. Both with tow packages 1 Puggle, 1 Chihuahua support staff |
Posted By: historysteve
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2020 at 7:58am
| A 2009 Kia Borrego, only made in 2009 and a brand victim of the Great Recession. It is an SUV on a truck body. Pulls it nicely but I will not set any speed records (nor should I) climbing over the mountains. |