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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

All about RV Caravan Tours!

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered about RV caravan tours? To find out, listen to our interview of the week with the operations head of Fantasy RV Tours. Also this week on the RV Podcast: A massive hatch of billions of creepy crawly bugs is about to invade large sections of the country. Yes, we really mean billions! Love’s truck stops are greatly expanding overnight camping spots at its service centers. The company is adding electric and water hookups for weary RVers. All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 490 of the RV Podcast.

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0:00.0

This week on the RV podcast, a massive hatch of billions of creepy crawly bugs is about to invade large sections of the country, and yes, we really mean billions.

0:12.3

Love's truck stops are greatly expanding overnight camping spots at a service centers. The company is adding electric and water hookups for weary RVers.

0:22.5

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be part of an RV caravan tour? Well, you can find out

0:28.9

by listening to our interview of the week coming up in a few minutes with the operations head of

0:33.2

fantasy RV tours. All this plus the RV news of the week and your questions coming up in episode 490 of the RV podcast. Hello everybody. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer. Hello, my dear.

1:07.1

Hello, Mr. Mike. Well, we should tell everybody before we get started that this podcast comes

1:12.2

to you in audio and video form. If you want the video version, you can find it on our RV

1:18.1

Lifestyle YouTube channel. And, of course, the audio version, as always, is available on your

1:22.9

favorite podcast app. So, greetings for everybody. We're in. And we've spent most of the past three months here.

1:31.9

This week we're finishing a major project reviewing five Class B models and testing them by driving

1:38.5

and actually camping in them. This has been a huge project and it has seen us drive a couple thousand miles.

1:46.7

We've tested out gas and diesel engines, two-wheel drive, four-wheel drive, four-by-four models on three different chassis, the Ram Pro Master, the Ford Transit, and the Mercedes Spritter, and we've done it in lengths of 20, 22, and 24 feet.

2:05.1

And thanks to Nick Schmidt of Sunshine State RVs for providing us with the units to test.

2:11.8

Yes, he trusted us greatly, didn't he?

2:14.5

He certainly did.

2:15.9

Well, maybe not a whole lot because he did have an air tag in

2:18.7

each one of those vehicles, so he knew where we were. But we really do appreciate Nick. And Nick is a

2:24.8

wealth of information about Class B's. I think one of the largest Class B dealers in the country.

2:30.5

And he really helped us take a good sample of what the latest in technology is and we had a

2:37.7

great time so right now our challenge is we've got to edit these five in-depth video reviews and

2:45.2

these are different than most video reviews because not only do we just show you a tour of inside

2:49.7

and outside but we drive it and we

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