R-pod Owners Forum : Liking our R-Pod http://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Introduce Yourself : Liking our R-Pod Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 03 May 2026 03:52:24 +0000 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:30:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=10821 R-pod Owners Forum http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://www.rpod-owners.com/ Liking our R-Pod : Wendell, Greetings from northern... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101167#101167 Author: jato
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017 at 9:30pm

Wendell, Greetings from northern Michigan, welcome and glad to hear you had a great trip.  Last month we went to RMNP in Colorado, 4000 miles in 2 weeks so . . . . that is a lot of driving, glad to hear you made it safely w/o incident!]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:30:25 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101167#101167 Liking our R-Pod : Sounds like a great trip!We started... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101162#101162 Author: Leo B
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017 at 6:52pm

Sounds like a great trip!
We started with a 171 back in 2009 and really liked it!
]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:52:15 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101162#101162 Liking our R-Pod : Wow! Did I read that right? 10,000... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101161#101161 Author: GlueGuy
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017 at 6:50pm

Wow! Did I read that right? 10,000 miles in 6 weeks? That's over 1,600 miles per week. I'm exhausted just reading about it. Yowza.

We have been to Alaska a couple of times, but not in our R-pod. It looks like we have something to look forward to! I think we will take it a bit slower though.
]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:50:59 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101161#101161 Liking our R-Pod : Hello,We became R-Pod owners... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10821&PID=101159#101159 Author: Wendell
Subject: 10821
Posted: 20 Oct 2017 at 5:04pm

Hello,

We became R-Pod owners in July. Some time ago, we decided to visit Alaska since it was the last state we hadn't at least driven through and we're celebrating major birthdays and an anniversary this year. We also recently purchased a 4x4 capable of taking us places many don't get to visit. After much debate about tents, small motor homes, and fifth wheels, we decided a small travel trailer, that our 4x4 can tow, was what we wanted.

We are in Mid-Michigan near Lansing and found our RP-171 at a local dealer. They said it was "last year's model", but it's a 2017. Because it's small and weighs less than 2500 lbs(empty), but has a "queen" bed, it's just what we wanted.

So, we brought it home on July 7th and left for Alaska on the 18th. Before leaving we made two "mods" to accommodate my CPAP: a shelf over the bed and a 12V outlet to power it when "dry camping". We also had axle risers, a second LP tank, an Equal-i-zer hitch, and a brake controller installed by the dealer.

We towed it 10,000 miles in July and August over all kinds of pavement as well as occasional unpaved roads with no problems. There were perhaps 4-6 locations where we were more than one night and two of those were campgrounds we chose to visit again on the return trip.

We've really enjoyed our R-Pod during the short time we've had it, and we're looking forward to enjoying it much more!

Wendell and Kathi


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