Sunday, Mar 15, 2015 at 21:38
My experience with tents is different. Our rooftop tent is far quicker to put up & pack away than any ground based tent including the very quick to erect centre pole type & ones like the OzTent. Dome tents with their threaded or clipped fibreglass poles take more time.
Any ground tent also requires being set up inside, unpackin & putting in the bedding, & packing again when leaving etc. Each little thing like this adds to set up time. Every minute added to set up time for long term travellers becomes a tiresome chore day after day. Very different to short trips.
The pop up type of rooftop tents like the Baroud are indeed very convenient when ‘out bush’, but they don’t provide shade/shelter in windy & wet weather (unless you want to lay down all day), have no shelter over the ladder - a problem in the rain, & lack any area of privacy when staying in
places with others - getting dressed in a sitting position in a small RTT is a pain.
It is of course all a horses for courses thing.
6 to 12 months will go very quickly. We took 18 months to go around & thought we would look for work as we went. Before leaving we envisaged stopping in
places for a month or so at a time. Reality was quite different, didn’t feel like we had enough time to do that, at least not if we wanted to travel at a pace which allwed us to savour the country we were exploring.
We now have a 2006 Nissan Patrol 4.2TDi & are looking forward to taking it around Australia.........but will take our time & maybe even work next time
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