Well ... this weekend I got to do some experimenting. This doesn't involve the Mirage. But it was in alignment with this thread.
I spent the weekend with my sons in the middle of no-man's land alongside a river. A relative of mine bought a tiny little cabin on stilts there about 12 years ago. The river overflows the banks frequently. And has slowly been adding and changing stuff there.
His place and all his changes has made the place awesome. A 2WD truck can make it, but only if it is dry. It has deep sections of silty sand. A 2WD can get stuck there if you don't keep the momentum up. Anyway, back to the experiment.
I towed my ATV there on my 5'x10' utlity trailer. Not with my Mirage (another son was using it) but with my blue Cummins truck. I also carried a bunch of supplies. The blue truck made mince-meat out of the work.
After unloadeding the ATV, I put my utility trailer in a cute little level spot, under some trees, and then put my canopy up, and moved the canopy over the trailer. I then used the tie straps that were used to hold the ATV on the trailer, to gently tie-down the canopy to the trailer (so no winds could blow it off). I had a small narrow pad, laid that down then put a large moving blanket over that. Then I used regular home bedding on top of that. The comfort was ok, but the pad was too narrow. The temp outside dropped to the low 60's I guess. My temp under the bedding was PERFECT.
The biggest problem, bugs kept landing on my face, hair and buzzing me in the ears. I slept not so great.
2nd night, I added a bigger thicker wider pad to the deal. I also lowered the canopy down. The outsides of the canopy were somewhere in the vicinity of the floor of the trailer. The center of the canopy was somewhat like a teepee, so plenty of space between the trailer floor and the canopy. The bigger thicker padding was much better. But mainly, the canopy being lower like that, I guess the bugs were too stupid to find their way to my face. No bugs bothered me with it set up like this and I slept like a friggin baby.
This is an excellent setup if towing a utility trailer. Not something many Mirage owners are going to do. At some point I still want to make an inside the Mirage sleeping setup like this thread is intended. Sleeping inside such a small cabin though could wind up with stifling conditions. Either too hot in the summer, or too cold and damp in the winter. I wonder if it would hurt the engine at all to idle it for 6 to 8 hours to keep the inside comfortable...
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