After several months of research in this Forum, we got R-pod172 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 Nationalparks and forests, so R-pod 172 is a best much to our camping style.  I sleep on the lower bank bed and my hubbyfound comfortable sleeping on the dinette bed. So we can put all gears, food, and clothes on the upper bed (removed amat).  We didn’t know anything about RVat 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, Canadain August.  Next April we are going toNational Parks in Utah for 2 weeks including dry camping for 7 consecutivenights.  So we are researching solar panelsand already learned a lot from this forum. Oh, one thing we noticed when travel. People seemed to like Pod.  Somepeople smiled at us, well actually at our Pod on a road, some came to talk tous about Pod at a campground, someone drove back and forth to take a good lookof our Pod at a rest area, and someone stood for a couple minutes behind ourPod checking a detail.  Yah, Pods are cute!