R-pod Owners Forum : Successful "Shakedown" https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Camping Adventures : Successful "Shakedown" Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:26:04 +0000 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:37:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2943 R-pod Owners Forum https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ Successful "Shakedown" : Kind of like the postal service,... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2943&PID=27922#27922 Author: techntrek
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Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 8:37pm

Kind of like the postal service, neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night....]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:37:35 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2943&PID=27922#27922 Successful "Shakedown" : Sounds like it went pretty well... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2943&PID=27913#27913 Author: this_is_nascar
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Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 3:56pm

Sounds like it went pretty well considering the weather.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 2:57pm

As mentioned in another post, we spent a night in the delivery campground of our selling dealer, but this was our first attempt to see if we learned everything they tried to teach us.

We only ventured about 40 miles from home to Manatee Springs State Park outside of Chiefland, Florida.  We had a beautiful wooded site.  The only problem was it was raining cats and dogs!  We decided that if we were to be real campers, (RV'ers, actually...), we had to plow on, and everything ended up fine.

I got the R-Dome up, by myself, in the rain, in about half an hour.  (Including the screen skirt, which was actually the hardest part.)  Actually, I had to have Joyce steady the front arch while I got the center top strut positioned.  Thank you everybody who has posted R-Dome instructions and experiences.  It really helped.

Then, the rains quit, the sun peeked through, and we had a great time.  Joyce had everything "inside" under control.  The Campin' Cocker Spaniels were introduced to "nature", including a number of very nonchalant deer that greeted our morning walk.  

Breaking everything down this morning was just as challenging, and maybe more tiring.

One more one-nighter to fine tune our "kit", and we're off to Anastasia State Park for a couple of nights next month.
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