Head Tale

Hard to believe we’ve had our 2012 rPod for five years now having bought it used during summer 2014.

Through the first couple years of pulling it around the province, one year in a provincial seasonal site and the last couple in a regional park, I continue to feel like we made an awesome decision to buy this amazing little camper (and a lucky one too – the particular floor model we have is hard to find at the best of times and it appears Forest River is no longer making models with rear garages at all so it’s not like we could upgrade to a newer year of the same model, even if we wanted to.)

On that note, occasionally, we think about whether to upgrade to a larger camper, especially now that we have a permanent seasonal site.  But we got an amazing deal on the rPod so its paid for, we’re in the same campground as Shea’s parents so spend a lot of time in their much bigger camper as it is, and I love that having a smaller camper sort of forces us to be outside instead of inside sitting by the fireplace or in a hot tub or whatever other crazy features some of those large campers have! 😉

Anyhow, our camper is small but mighty but has a lot of things we love about it:

1. The rDome side tent add-a-room is easy to set-up and basically doubles your floor space.  We use ours for everything from a place for extra storage to a shelter during the heat of the day, during rainstorms or when bugs are particularly bad to a place where we can easily increase or decrease our privacy whether we have the sides of the tent open or closed.
2. The rear kitchen is where we prepare most of our meals (and cocktails!), do all our dishes, watch the occasional movie with the TV that’s easily moved from inside to out and back again and store a large amount of supplies (mostly cooking related but there’s a few uncracked glow sticks back there too!)
3. Our model has bunk beds which was great when the kids were small and is even better now that pre-teen Pace has moved out into a tent which leaves us a whole bunk open for extra storage (very valuable!)
4. Full wet bath with toilet and shower.  With as small as it is, it’s amazing to have a spot where you can even have a shower (well, Shea and the kids can – I’m just a bit too big for that!)
5. This isn’t as obvious as the other things on this list but rPods are very well made with a lot of thought put into their design and construction to make sure they’re long-lasting (but still lightweight) which means they’re less likely to have problems over the years.

Here’s a tour of a model that’s very similar to ours…