I truly love this setup. Jeep Gladiator Rubicon with a James Baroud "Space" rooftop tent. I gave it a good test on my November trip to the southwest, and I have to say that it is so nice to not be sleeping in a tent on the ground anymore. Yeah, its a little bit of a pain to have to climb up and down the ladder to access the tent. But that is a minor thing compared to the benefits.
I love waking up in the morning and opening the tent windows to a nice elevated view of the landscape around me. Never again do I have to worry about the tent being level... the off-road pitch-and-roll gauges in the Jeep's instrument cluster make leveling super easy. Never again do I have to deal with the tent getting dirty by being set up on wet/muddy ground. Perhaps the best thing, though, is how easy and fast it is to set up. It literally takes less than a minute to have the tent popped up and ready for use. Closing it up takes a little more time, but nowhere near as long as taking down and packing a ground tent.
Being that its mounted to a Jeep Gladiator Rubicon, I can get to some pretty rugged, remote and awesome places that many other vehicles would struggle to get to, if they can get there at all. As I enter my 50th year of life on this planet, I never would have guessed that I would have so much fun discovering a new way to camp! Here's to many more adventures with the Jeep, James Baroud tent, and my camera gear.
