To convert the cargo pod – the penthouse – into a bedroom, you push a button. The lid tilts open like a giant clamshell. In the San Leandro lot, I eyed the ladder and the tent suspiciously, then crab-legged my way up. It was surprisingly comfortable and well ventilated, but the entry and exit scared me.
“I am not climbing down this ladder in the middle of the night,” I said. “You try it.”
Gardner, a big guy who crests 6 feet, stepped on the bottom rung of the ladder. The van tilted ever so slightly.
“This seems like a bad idea,” he said.
The whole story is in the San Francisco Chronicle, here.