My rig for camping
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jonesy66 said:
You don't get it. Having a roof top tent on your vehicle lets everyone know that you mean business and that you're pretty fucking serious about camping.
The only thing more serious than a moron with a roof top tent on his truck is a moron with a roof top tent on his expedition trailer.
My wife wants one 'cause she thinks it's cool. The whole teardown every time you go some where would be a pain, cheaper to buy an old popup.
The "tear down" takes as long as a standard tent at most. The main drawback that I see with a RTT is not being able to drive your vehicle anywhere once it is set up.
The weight on the roof is not an issue. Especially since people carry more weight on the roof in fuel, spares, gear, etc. They just don't weigh that much.
The weight on the roof is not an issue. Especially since people carry more weight on the roof in fuel, spares, gear, etc. They just don't weigh that much.
ptschram
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Tugela said:
I've never seen anyone eating a Pierogie north of Hamtramck. Yoopers are all about the pasties dammit!
I dont get it, I mean in Africa you camp on your roof to stay away from animals. Whats the point of setting a tent up on your roof other than being a bit of a poser? Don't mean any offense, I think they are pretty cool, but I dont see any advantage to a standard ground tent....
ptschram said:
Clearly I've been away for too long and the lack of Bell's beer has crossed the wires. But Hamtramck? Holy obscure geographical reference. There used to be a decent bar there...ska bands trying to break into the Detroit scene would sometimes play there.
I think camping in a ground tent in Africa is way more interesting than sleeping on your roof. I have survived both an elephant uprooting a tree next to my tent one night and a hippo stampede when I set my tent up too close to the Chobe River the following night. Plus the hyenas that stuck their heads into my tent in Kenya. I would have missed out on all that fun had I been on the roof.
What's funny is that a lot of campsites in South Africa and Namibia are way more developed with better amenities than campsites in the US. I remember rolling into a campground in the middle of the Great Namib desert one evening and talking to the woman who ran the place. She offered to send a fax to confirm my reservation at the campground I was planning to stay at next. A radio fax! In the middle of the freaking desert! And I didn't see a single roof top tent the entire 6 years I lived in Africa.
I really like my roof top tent for the quick set up and how comfortable it is. Getting up high allows you to take advantage of any cross breeze and its sort of reminiscent of the tree houses we built as kids. My wife doesn't like heights and needs to get up to pee a couple of times a night so the roof tent doesn't work for her. That's why we also have a camper - although the camper does limit the choice of roads I can explore.
a couple weeks ago we did a extended weekend trip up in the UP of Migh, sleeping on the shores of lake superior on sharp rock. The total mileage was about 1200 for the weekend.
I missed the living hell out of my rooftop tent. I had left the rack and tent off because the $4 a gallon gas and I regret that I opted for the ground tent.
call me a moron or what ever, I like my RTT and it is a fast comfortable camping option. we never stay at actual campgrounds. Most often they are free primitive campsites on state lands and they are most often really rocky as the whole UP is either a swamp or jagged rock. IMHO RTT's have a place for sure.
I missed the living hell out of my rooftop tent. I had left the rack and tent off because the $4 a gallon gas and I regret that I opted for the ground tent.
call me a moron or what ever, I like my RTT and it is a fast comfortable camping option. we never stay at actual campgrounds. Most often they are free primitive campsites on state lands and they are most often really rocky as the whole UP is either a swamp or jagged rock. IMHO RTT's have a place for sure.
