ABOUT THIS PHOTO:
This is what the sleeping area looks like during the process of "putting the bed away." The white laundry bag holds my pillow. The cream-colored fabric swatches are pieces of non-skid fabric for anchoring my slippery air mattress. The folded rug goes on top of the air mattress as a sweat inhibitor. The reddish sack holds my Therm-A-Rest air mattress. My dark green sleeping bag is wadded up behind the yellow duffel bag.

ABOUT SYSTEM 2:
My second system came into being in mid-2005 when I built a carpeted plywood floor in the Subaru. It occupied all of the car’s interior except for the driver’s seat, the center console, and the floor area of the front passenger seat. This required me to remove the front passenger seat and the bench-style back seat, pretty easy to do because of the simple way they were attached to the floor and their light weight.

The new floor eliminated the discomforts, and eased the space problems, of the first system. Now I was able to lie parallel to the car's long axis, lessening the need to move things around for sleeping. This issue became even less bothersome when I discovered I could store things during the night on the hood of my car (a tarp kept them dry).