I’m currently gathering all of my camping equipment to take the kids on a trip up to a park in Pennsylvania, and I’ll be packing the Scout. This is not a problem; I love taking the Scout on adventures. But my end goal for the Travelall has always been to make it a proper touring\/camping rig, and one of the things on the list is to install a rooftop tent. Marketplace seems to be lousy with used examples, and while I’ve been tempted to buy one lately, I know I’m still at least a year away from being ready. For one thing, I still don’t have a platform built to mount a tent to, although I have the aluminum channel ready and waiting for a date with the TIG welder.<\/p>\n
That’s not to say I haven’t been doing my homework. I’m looking for a hardshell model, for several reasons: I don’t want a big flappy bag on the top of the truck slowing things down, I don’t want something that will require a PhD and a 2-hour video to install, and I’d like to have a place to mount solar panels to charge the battery and plug stuff into. I’ve seen several different options from multiple manufacturers, and over the weekend I stumbled across a listing for a Naturenest Polaris Plus<\/a> on Marketplace. This seems to tick all of the boxes I’m interested in: it’s light, it’s a hardshell, it packs down small, and it’s outfitted with some thoughtful amenities\u2014an external cooler-heater vent, USB plugs, lighting, and external racks to mount other gear upon. This looks like a strong contender\u2014and the price is reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m currently gathering all of my camping equipment to take the kids on a trip up to a park in Pennsylvania, and I’ll be packing the Scout. This is not a problem; I love taking the Scout on adventures. But my end goal for the Travelall has always been to make it a proper touring\/camping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-plans"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}