Bought the tent

As it turned out, the local Sportsman's show was happening about the same time I discovered CVT.  I heard they would be there, so we just went.  We were looking at the model like what I had seen pictured on the other xB.  It sets up and packs up in less than a minute.  I had no intereste in the models that looked like regular tents on your roof.  But Carol climbed up in one of them and said, "You need to come up here."  I went.  It was so much roomier than the model we had in mind.  We started thinking about the bad weather we sometimes get for days on end in the Fall and it soon became clear that we would be better off with one of the other RTT's  We eventually settled on the Mt. Shasta and that is what we bought.  Bobby not only gave us a great price on the tent, he also saved us some money on the Yakima roof rack.  Unfortunately, that rack didn't work out because you couldn't get the tent back far enough to open the hatch without hitting the ladder half way up.  I figured out that I needed a permanent rack, what Yakima calls "tracks."  No one wants to install those because you have to drill holes in the roof.  So I had to install it myself.  That took me several days, but the results were great.  I also made a small basket for carrying chairs, gasoline, and propane on top of the car.  The fairing is ridiculously expensive, but I broke down and bought one when REI had them on sale for 20 percent off.  The mounting of the fairing went through a couple of attempts that were not so great.  But I like the way it is set up now, well ahead of the basket and, hopefully, directing most of the air over everything that is behind it.

I have pictures of the installation of the Yakima tracks that I will eventually include in this post along with a description of how it was installed.  If you want to check out the CVT tents, here is their website: http://cascadiatents.com/   Last I heard, they are having the grand opening of their new showroom this month (August 9th I think).  They'll have other vendors and are giving away prizes and possibly a RTT.  Live music too.  Sounds like a great event.  Hopefully, we'll have to miss it because we will be on the road.  But we will definitely be there if we get delayed.