MKish wrote:
I have a Northstar 800 popup. It's short on storage because cabinets don't go all the way up (obviously!) and we travel with 2 children and sometimes a large dog. The fridge is a little small. It's nice and airy and I prefer the tenty feel to the RV feel. It fits in my garage (NOT on the truck though). It's warm and waterproof. We've been in heavy rain and wind and stayed dry. Only taken it down to about 30F but it was fine (we don't sleep with the furnace on).
We can have lunch without popping the top. (I can actually stand with the top down but I'm short.) I don't think I'd use the stove without popping up though. It doesn't take long to pop it up or down. Northstar claims that their new models allow use of the toilet with the top down (when I was looking you couldn't).
x2. We've lunched, napped, used the stove, used the toilet, all with the top down. Having seen a bunch of hard-side campers and trucks not dealing well with crosswinds, winding corners where the whole truck looks like it's going to tip over, etcetera, helped steer us towards a pop-up.
