After several months of research in this Forum, we got R-pod 172 in May 2015 driving 4 hours from Seattle area to Salem, OR.  We are totally new to RV.  We go to hiking mostly State and National parks and forests, so R-pod 172 is a best much to our camping style.  I sleep on the lower bank bed and my hubby found comfortable sleeping on the dinette bed.  So we can put all gears, food, and clothes on the upper bed (removed a mat).  We didn’t know anything about RV at all but learned everything from this forum.  If not this forum, we didn’t purchase R-pod. Thank you guys!  We did 4 nights dry camping at Jasper, Canada in August.  Next April we are going to National Parks in Utah for 2 weeks including dry camping for 7 consecutive nights.  So we are researching solar panels and already learned a lot from this forum.  Oh, one thing we noticed when travel.  People seemed to like Pod.  Some people smiled at us, well actually at our Pod on a road, some came to talk to us about Pod at a campground, someone drove back and forth to take a good look of our Pod at a rest area, and someone stood for a couple minutes behind our Pod checking a detail.  Yah, Pods are cute!