It started here.

How to build a Tire Table for smaller SUVs or Crossovers
(as opposed to a ‘Tailgater’ tire table for 150+)

A tire table is a piece of shaped metal designed to fit over a tire and slide out into a flat surface. It’s a good idea and a low priority.

It did lead me down a distraction alley about camping in very small vehicles, and in particular:

Subaru Sleeping with Carson (using a crosstrek as a camping platform)

That’s a YouTube channel. If I were a better person I would link it. Anyway, Carson has a two-piece camper insert.

Longest Folding Sleeping Platform for Car Camping Ep. 24

Compact Storage for Car Camping Ep. 28

It’s not a completely novel idea. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52YaEo48OTA

If you have, at minimum, a sleeping platform in your car, you’ll want to study other essential items to use it.

Honey and Me (Honey is her 1992 Toyota motorhome)

How to Make Reversible Window Covers for Your Car Camper — CHEAP and EASY!!!

You CAN Poop And Pee In A Car Camper – Car Camping

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I love the concept. But just as with the guy I saw in Silver with the fancy bike-based rig, tiny-car camping is not a thing that would work well for me. I want to carry more stuff with me than that. The Starlink alone would take up a major chunk of the leftover real estate in a Subaru, and … I ain’t pooping in one either. Not even me.

If someday we do buy a newer Crosstrek, and if that Crosstrek could be set up to tow a trailer with a mattress in it instead … then it would move up to a Maybe, maybe.

But if I were driving a larger SUV, like, say, hmm … a Jeep Grand Cherokee? I could see an internal folding sleeping platform as very nearly viable.

Until then, it’s one more interesting idea that I don’t actually have to think about, once this post is done.