So the Van is still on the wishlist and i have the feeling it will be there for a while, the astra is going strong.
Everything does fit with the seats down but i am starting to feel sorry for the car taking on all the mud and mess i keep throwing in.
So my Trakker is great and the Westlake does its job on the long trips but i am looking for something in the middle with a zip-in ground sheet. Sonik have a AXS v2 which i am now keeping my eye on as its all Sonik. The issue with the Trakker is that it has no door without using the extension and i would like the zip-in ground sheet to try and keep things tidy and bug free.
My NGT bed is getting thin, i can feel the bars and stacking sleeping bags to stay comfortable and warm, the only thing that puts me off a larger sleep system is the size of them when putting them in the car or the Trakker. i do not have a vendor in mind so i am open to anything and the NGT bed has done well so maybe ill keep it cheap.
I dont know if its a curse at the moment but the Vader alarms that i really wanted are a problem, the blue alarm will not stay sync’d to the receiver overnight and this causes an issue for me and the fish safety. i have pulled the wires out of the cheap alarms that i have (lixeda i think they were) to make the alarms silent as they had no volume control, this has worked great but i feel like i would like alarms that are not tampered with. but i am fussy in what i want and need to see all the alarms out of the box so i do not buy something too bulky as i do not want dials all over the alarm.
so my NGT rod and reel have been good but the handle feel off the reel and needed some repair and the reel is starting the grind. the rod is also really thick its like launching a telegraph pole. so i am thinking about the Sonik Hero of the SK-47 spod and marker sets but i am in no rush until the next France trip.