Thanks you for the advice everyone. As far as the racks on the top go, I'm basically transferring over my old Yakima system to the roof of the Alaskan. Yakima are already at Alaskan awaiting to be put on the roof while it is being built.
I have two load warriors on the top now, but will take the front one off to allow for the two solar panels that are being mounted instead.
One problem with the rack is that the curvature of the Alaskan roof is such that the cross bars will be closer together. The Yakima towers are short and don't allow for much clearance. Anyone see any solutions to this? I've thought about putting a gentle curve in the cross bars to match the roof, but
don't know how this will affect the mounting of the basket or how it work for the kayak and bike?
I agree whole heartedly about lighting in the camper. I'm hoping that the LED'S being mounted in the camper will give good lighting. If not, I'll be mounting more. I have found that the little round battery powered LED's are great in dark spots. I have in in closets and all over the place in this camper and will do the same in the new one. I even put one in the bathroom so that I can see when the top is down and need to run to the back and get rid of a bunch of filtered coffee.
The Hella Matador is a great idea and had thought about it. Instead I have a set of PIAA 1500 back up lights being mounted high on the rear of the camper. They turn on automatically when I go in reverse (very nice), and the over ride switch will be just inside the door. I have this arrangement on my current camper and it works great. When someone/something is around at night I switch them on and it's instant illumination. One thing I have thought of though is to have the Matador lights on the sides and front for cooking and lighting up the campsite when something suspicious is going on.