Recent content by jtakau

I have been considering James Baroud Falcon Awning to go with my JB Explorer tent. Unfortunately I have no possibility to see one in person, so I have to trust the information that I may find online. I have been using Thule Bars with my tent (and regular JB Awning) so far. Would it be feasible...

Most of my camping with my RTT has actually been on various campinggrounds and I have always checked in as "car and a tent". Never had any questions.

I add this to here as well: In Norway

My ride on roadside parking lot near Oxsfjord, Norway Ride to Moon mosquito net fitted to keep mosquitoes from the car during night at Kilpisjärvi, Finland (dogs were sleeping in car)

I am planning to upgrade my fridge (to compressor cooler, currently thinking either about Waeco CDF 25 or CFX 35/40), add second battery (in order to get ease of mind to keep fridge plugged overnight even though a compressor cooler should help with that anyway) and I am also thinking about...

I though that at leastthe new Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV would have the necessary qualifications, but I have not checked its true off-road capabilities.

Any experience on using a plug-in hybrid as expedition vehicle? Can on benefit from the car's inherent energy storing capacity and forego dual-battery set-up or is the electric motor (and perhaps limited fuel capacity) only a hindrance for expedition travel?

Any experience with Maggiolina/AirTop changing room? How those measurements should be read? Due to the location I don’t really have an option to see the product in person, so have I understand correctly, that I should get the height (155-170 / 171-185 / 186-200 / 201-220) that matches the...

I wonder how a bubble window on top would affect the mileage. Currently we experienced a little to no increase in consumption (BMW X5 with diesel engine, no off-road travel) and we could drive almost at European highway speed (110 km / h, at higher speed it felt that the rack was starting to...

After spending some three weeks on a road with my JB RTT (love it, at least for my quite civilized use), a thought hit me in one of the camping sites: Why isn't there a skyview window on the top shell of a hard shell RTT? That would give you absolutely amazing views and increased light. Now, I...

We got a custom made cage for the dogs. It takes most of the trunk, but leaves the back seats for our stuff (mostly) and still give us option to transport people as well. There is some space on top of the cage and in our last trip we used it to store two additional folding cages which were set...

First test drive showed that something in the set-up starts to make whizzling noice at speed of 90 km per hour. I was hoping that my set-up would allow drive at motorway speed, so next step is to check that there is no unnecessary gaps anywhere and perhaps try plain nuts instead of butterfly...

I am using BMW X5 with Thule load bars, so I end up attaching the awning to the end of the load bars with bolts. A little bit of work, mostly because the space is a bit limited for tools, but I think that end result is quite nice. I suspect that I will have to come up with some solution to...

I recently purchased James Baroud Explorer Evolution RTT and awning. What is the best way to fix the awning to the tent/roofbars/roofrack?

Would such a Maggiolina tent fit with Baroud tent? The Maggiolina changing room does look quite attractive (from practical point of view), but I have found way better deal for Baroud.