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Great info in here, I just sold my travel trailer and plan to use the Excursion for smaller trips we don't want to take the Motorhome on. I bought a side by side and figure we can head out to more remote areas with the EX and camp out of it.
We just completed our third month long camping trip to the Yukon and Alaska.
Screens: The best solution for us was to use the weatherTec rain guards on the two rear door windows and duct tape to secure the noseeum screens. It lets the air flow through and keeps the rain out. The bears haven't figured it out yet. The first year I screened the rear two wing windows and that was not efficient or weather proof.
Sleeping: Two of the inexpensive Coleman foldup cots will fit side by side in the Ex with the 3rd row removed and the 2nd row down. Walmart strorage crates will hold gear and food under the cots and make it easy to get to what you want. The cots are 6 feet long, leaving 2+ feet for a 12V cooler near the rear power port, 5 gal water, Canadian Tire kitchen, lodge charcoal BBQ, and the popup and instant tent lay across the top of them. I use a camping pads and a twin mattress pad on top to the cots with sleeping bags on top of that.
The tent is used for living, popup is first up when we stop so if it is raining, we can unload covered. Then it is used for the outdoor kitchen or if weather is an issue, covering the entrance to the tent.
Camping in the Ex is great because there are very few limitation as to where you can go. I have camped in remote canyons chasing german brown trout, on the beach at the coast casting for surf perch, river side and first casts while the Winter Steelhead are in, bluffs of all sorts just taking in the sites around me. No place where you'll find an RV or campground. I can throw my Flycraft inflatable on top of my 4 "chuck boxes" on the roof rack and just point in a direction and go. The Overlanding purist will say she's too long and heavy to go where the billy goats do, and to some extent that is true, but the Ex is the perfect platform for Overlanding in my humble opinion because she is so big and quite capable. I have pulled three 4 runners outta difficult situations with my winches to date and then I continued on to my destination, they went home to do repairs.
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