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Update: Thanks for the insights! I’ll accept that taking it in at the hotel is the way to go and load the vehicle accordingly. - I’ve got an absurd amount of stuff we’ll be shoving in the vehicle for our adventure so I just had my fingers crossed. Lol.

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Anyone have experience plugging a 12V car cooler into their Ascent?

My real question is: If I leave it plugged in overnight in the vehicle, will I find my car battery depleted? I have a camping trip coming up but we are spending the first night of the trip in a hotel. I’m trying to plan accordingly with the least amount of effort at the hotel stop.

Update: Nevermind. We’re just gonna assume they shrunk the *actual space and handle it accordingly. Yes, I’d already scoured the website. Yes, I understand well. 5th Roo. Wanted specific responders just so people didn’t start giving me the textbook instead of the qualitative feedback. ;)

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I need input from someone who did VIP camping in what is now Moon Colony and who has also been since it changed.

Can you clarify - are the camp spaces like they were when it was VIP and we could easily get four 10x10s in our campsites? I’ve got my canopies set aside for this but I’m looking at some aerial photos and thinking they’ve seriously shrunk the camp spaces.

If so… I’ll bite the bullet and our group will purchase and plan accordingly to have a second camp spot+second vehicle (I understand the rules) but we were planning like it was 2013-2019 size spaces at least. 😳

I’m a “flatlander,” who just loves visiting Vermont. I’m passionate about your state and its beauty and the beautiful interactions I’ve had with strangers. I’m looking at you art person in the shop in Newport, and you the Shaw’s employee that loved my GodAintPettyButIAm shirt. Anyway…

I live in KY. I have a Subie and my nearest dealership is in TN. I was waiting for my oil change and wandering just outside the building when a salesman started chatting with me. He asked if I’d taken my Subie for a trip and I enthusiastically shared that we’d traveled to Vermont last summer. His eyes LIT UP!

We spent the next hour have joyfully tearful conversation about VT. Apple cider, maple syrup, ice cream, cheese, waterfalls, places, and such. He told me stories of his experience growing up, about the congressperson who secretly put in a call to UVM and suddenly the man had an acceptance letter + a two year full scholarship. (He’s probably late 50s-early 60s so this would have been many moons ago for him.)

I shared with him how my husband and I have absolutely fallen in love with the state, its beauty, its people, and its way of life. It’s likely never in the cards for us to transplant there as we live in a low COL part of the country and don’t know how people make the leap. I know outsiders are seen as suspect. But I just want you all to know how much I appreciate what you all have and I recognize the hardship that it can be for those who live there trying to navigate the housing market, and all the costs of living, while being so resilient and dedicated.

I have two tiny baby pinecones I keep in my Subie that I pocketed on two separate trips. I know… I apologize for swiping from nature. But after the exchange with the salesperson today, as I was driving away, I felt like I should have turned around and given the man one of them as a token of my appreciation for our connection for that hour. A piece of VT to put on his work desk, maybe.