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Gonna be interesting fitting a rooftop tent ...... guess you must be planning to remove the solar panels?
I’m thinking about doing the opposite, havent totally decided yet. I have a ShippShape rooftop tent, good tent with it’s own ‘built in’ awning. However I find that when we are camped in places where I can’t get out of the tent to get dressed, getting dressed in a sitting position with nothing to lean against is a PIA. My wife doesn’t mind but I know that for anything more than short trips it will become something I grow to truly hate. Long term travel has different requirements to occasional weekends or even annual holidays. So I’m now thinking of removing the RTT & putting our currently portable panels up there. We carry an OzTent in one of the compartments under the pod for use as a ‘living room’ during longer camps. I am now thinking about building an ultralight off road rigid walled ‘towable bedroom’, (like a teardrop but without a kitchen) & keeping the Oztent for times when we want to leave the bedroom behind. Our goal is to spend 9 to 12 months a year on the road for a decade or more. (We also have an old converted Nissan bus to alternate the Patrol with & in which we spent 18 months doing a figure 8 around Oz in 08/09.).
Enough about me, what I’m really interested in is what your dreams of travel & adventure look like.
2006 4.2TDi ex-Telstra Remote area Camper. Patrol Sold after 11 years of ownership Replaced with 2006 OKA NT Expedition Truck. Cummins, Allison & lots of goodies A Nomadic Life (Blog)