Survived and enjoyed our first weekend away to Voyageur Provincial Park, Ontario in our new 2014 R-Pod 178.

 

The only modification we made before we left was to put an Ikea Lycksele Havet mattress on top of the queen bed.  (Another poster suggested replacing the queen mattress with a Lycksele Lovas mattress but it didn't suit us).

 

A highlight of the weekend was to drop in to see ron_whitt in Chesterville on the way home.  (I'm on the left in front of our 178 with Lily, our golden retriever.  Ron is on the right with his 177.)

 

Many thanks for the hospitality, Ron.  See you at Murphys Point Provincial Park next year!

 

David

Dockguy

Rpod 171 

w/ 2005 Toyota Tundra Crewcab

 

Would love to include a photo with my online signature but I am not sure how to do that.  Could someone please help.  And remind me how to re-size the photo so that it fits.

 

Many thanks,

 

David  

 

Sorry that we won't be at Murphys Point this weekend.  It is actually our favourite Provincial Park.  Our preferred site was 147 in Fallows but it doesn't allow travel trailers.  We typically went on the long weekend before school and took in the Perth Fair and picked up some local corn to boil.

 

We have booked Murphys Point for mid-September and will be in 61 in Hoggs Bay.

 

We also went back to Charleston Lake last year and discovered that they have an area away from the beach where dogs are allowed to swim off leash.  Needless to say we are heading back there at the end of August.

 

Coupled with Bonnechere at the beginning of August and Grundy Lake near Sudbury for the Thanksgiving Weekend we don't have many weekends left ;-)

 

If this schedule doesn't give the R-Pod a work-out, I don't know what will.

 

BTW, I hear that there was a mini-convention of R-Pods last year at Murphy's Point.  Sounds like a plan.  Maybe there are more of us in Ontario than I thought.  (Yes, we are getting ours from Travel-Mor).

 

Cheers,

 

David 

 

 

 

BTW, I will be driving past Oshawa en route to Scarborough for the Robbie Soccer Tournament in Scarborough next weekend sans R-Pod.

 

I'll give you a wave from the 401!

 

David

As you say, when the table is used as a bunk, there isn't enough room.  My dog tends to curl up at the r-pod's door or right in front of the queen bed.

 

I forgot to mention that we also have the almost obligatory 2-year old Golden Retriever (Lily).  I was going to have her sleep where the table goes but that won't work when we use the dinette as a bed for our daughter.  I guess we will have to follow everyone else's lead and step over Lily in the middle of the night.

 

(Bodie55 - maybe you can help me decide whether a sleeping bag works best on the dinette bed, or whether an extra foam pad and/or sheets and a blanket would work?) 

 

Anyway, we have picked Voyageur Provincial Park, half-way to Montreal, as our first test in the middle of July.  Nice easy 1-hour drive on a 4-lane highway so everyone can pass me.  And a pull-through camping site with electricity so that I don't have to back in (and have Liz wave frantically at me as I do so!) and can test out all the features of the R-Pod.

 

Cheers,

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 178's length will still let us get into some our favourite camping sites and the inclusion of the U-shaped dinette over the 177 will make life more comfortable when our younger 14-year old daughter decides to join us.

 

Our older daughter is off to Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario this fall and I can see many road trips in our future. 

 

Cheers,

 

David