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Welcome to episode number 243 of RV Miles, I'm Jason.

And I'm Abby and we are two full-time travelers who have been criss-crossing North America on one epic road trip since 2016.

Here at RV Miles, we talk all things RV and outdoors from industry news to travel destinations, our national parks, and today you're black tank.

You know, every week you mention that we're two full-time travelers and I was just realizing that like,

oh, well, you counted us. That's good. There's one, two.

And it's accurate. I am capable of doing basic math.

I wanted to kick off the show today with a little update on a new story that was in our most recent news episode.

I didn't really get to get as far into it as I would like, but I've now been able to talk to somebody from Keystone RV company.

So you may have heard the story if you didn't hear it from us. You've heard it elsewhere.

The Keystone has laid off some employees. They're closing two plants down and laying off some employees.

And I tried to put it in a little context in the news video, but I want to add a little bit more here now that I've

actually been able to talk to reps from Keystone. There is a lot of doom and gloom out there about how

these two plant closures that Keystone means really despair for the RV industry.

Feels almost like an apocalypse, doesn't it?

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