How much headroom for over-cab beds?
I am thinking about a TC someday -- not very soon -- but I like to sit upright in bed to read, and I need a lot of headroom. How much clearance is there? Does it vary a lot from one unit to another?...
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Dan,
Since we have the least tall, and narrowest TC frame that Lance made, it's about 32". No sitting up in bed and reading. However, I read into the night in the laying down position on my back with a neck pillow and that works for a while. Some of the days i would read sitting in my assigned seat around the dinette table and that worked fine. It was really narrow up there when we used two, 4" mattresses during the winter one year. Great insulation but it was like slithering into an envelope. The M.O. is: roll over onto your front; get up on your haunches; back track to the bed steps; tip and slide down to the first step. We're used to it.
Just returned from a pass-hoping trip on the spine of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. 3 days we camped at + or - 9500 feet, one night at 8300, and two nights at 8400 feet. This is at 9600 feet above Conway Summit. About a quarter mile south of the end of the Virginia Lakes road. Eerily quiet. Not another soul around:
jefe
Since we have the least tall, and narrowest TC frame that Lance made, it's about 32". No sitting up in bed and reading. However, I read into the night in the laying down position on my back with a neck pillow and that works for a while. Some of the days i would read sitting in my assigned seat around the dinette table and that worked fine. It was really narrow up there when we used two, 4" mattresses during the winter one year. Great insulation but it was like slithering into an envelope. The M.O. is: roll over onto your front; get up on your haunches; back track to the bed steps; tip and slide down to the first step. We're used to it.
Just returned from a pass-hoping trip on the spine of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. 3 days we camped at + or - 9500 feet, one night at 8300, and two nights at 8400 feet. This is at 9600 feet above Conway Summit. About a quarter mile south of the end of the Virginia Lakes road. Eerily quiet. Not another soul around:
jefe
