Alternate Sleeping
Not much to report right now of the JK, except that my appreciation for it has moved beyond respect to a little itty bit of love. I am trying to not get too attached. . .
One of the recent projects was testing interior sleeping options. As you all know, I would sacrifice a little comfort for performance (which is why you buy a Jeep, not a camper), so I usually end up sleeping in a ground tent or just on the ground. However, I wanted to try a little high-speed option - sleeping inside.
I have a 5' long AT drawer, which is 12" tall. The drawer hight is fine, but the flat floor installed in the JK robs about 4 more inches. If it was my own buildup, I would delete the flat floor and just mount the drawer to the vehicle, gaining more headroom for ingress/egress and moving about. You still wouldn't be able to sit up.
Over the drawer, I am using my
Nemo pads
I have a Nemo Cosmo with Pillowtop on order, which will make it a one-pad operation. The particularly cool part is that I can just keep the bed set-up, with no tear-down in the morning - high speed.
For me to fit (6'1"), I need to tilt and slide the drivers seat all the way forward, and then lay my kitchen kit (pelican) down and add something else on top. For this trip I used my garment bag, which was just about right.
Yes, it is cramped, but I have lived out of a bivvy tent for months - it is all perspective
. However, it is very comfortable once in the bag. I enter/exit through the DS passenger door and then do a bizarre modified barrel roll twist to get my legs pointed towards the back. By night two, I was good at it, even with a midnight pee after too much Malbec (thanks Dave).
My preference is still sleeping out under the stars, but this was surprisingly good for the mixed weather we had. I digg it, and thought some others would like to see how it was set up.
In fact, I digg it enough, that I am going to have Mario make me a custom top for the drawer that will be wider and longer, and included a hinged, flip up head section - nice! :box:
