RPod 173 - new to forum
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Topic: RPod 173 - new to forum
Posted By: G_Mitt
Subject: RPod 173 - new to forum
Date Posted: 14 May 2012 at 10:10pm
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Hi, This in an introductory message. I am a retired librarian and my wife is an elementary school teacher (hint - summers off). We bought a used RPod 173 in February 2011 to take a long trip showing the western part of USA to my son, and re-acquaint myself. We bought a used Suburban for a tow vehicle. Summer 2011 we took a trip from the southern tip of Texas to the NE corner of N Mexico then through all the national parks north of Colorado Springs to and including Glacier NP. Then headed west to Seattle and Olympic NP and south through the Redwoods area and San Francisco, Yosemite and northern Los Angeles. About that time we needed to get home for my school teacher wife to set up her classroom for the next school year... so we hurried on home through ElPaso - Alpine - Laredo and home. details linked from http://www.stexboat.com/vacation/vacation.htm (hobby website) A link to a page listing various modifications we made is also there... as is a how-to on the very interesting microwave/convection oven. We have not weekended in the RPod. From where we live it is a long way to anywhere the weather is not hot. - Gerard Mittelstaedt McAllen, Texas ------------- Gerard Mittelstaedt McAllen, TX USA gmitt@ymail.com |
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Posted By: tpierce220
Date Posted: 15 May 2012 at 9:39am
Gerard, it's great to find you here!  Tim ------------- Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys. |
Posted By: Panama Red
Date Posted: 15 May 2012 at 2:40pm
| Really enjoyed your blog/pictures and welcome. |
Posted By: Snowbound
Date Posted: 15 May 2012 at 3:16pm
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Sounds like a nice trip. We enjoyed ourselves in that part of North America last fall. Welcome to the forum. Tom and Bette ------------- Tom and Bette in our 177 "The Gastropod" |
Posted By: rex
Date Posted: 15 May 2012 at 9:24pm
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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PODDING,SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME,ENJOYED YOUR PICTURES,HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU rex pHp stuart fla ------------- jrr |
Posted By: Hodge-PODge
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 8:26am
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Welcome - and thank for sharing! ------------- 2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge 2011 Mercedes ML350 "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 10:57am
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Welcome. We plan on doing the same as you in a year or two. Just bought a Suburban and bought the pod, both specifically for 1 or 2 tours around the US. Plus all of our usual weekend and week-long trips.
If you have any questions, fire away. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: Hawkeyes
Date Posted: 16 May 2012 at 1:29pm
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Really enjoyed your website and pictures. Thanks so much for sharing. We are going to camp in Colorado this summer and any ideas of "do or don't" is appreciated. ------------- Hawkpod 2013 Surveyor Sport 189 2017 Chevy Silverado |