At 90, Still Rolling, Anchorman Mort Crim on RV Life, America, and Aging
RV Podcast - Stories From The Road
Mike Wendland
4.5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As he approaches his 91st birthday, legendary broadcaster Mort Crim proves that curiosity and adventure do not retire.
Last summer, while in the middle of a cross-country RV journey, we caught up with Mort as he traveled America in his Class B Winnebago Travato with his cat Groucho. That journey is now complete, and in this follow-up conversation in RV Podcast Episode 578, Mort reflects on what the road revealed about America, aging, grief, and healing.
Mort shares how seeing the country firsthand, through campgrounds, small towns, and everyday conversations, gave him a very different perspective than the one often portrayed in the media. He also speaks openly about how RVing helped him work through the grieving process after losing his wife, providing space, movement, and purpose during a difficult season of life.
Now, with that chapter behind him, Mort is already making plans for a busy 2026 RV travel season, proof that living small and moving often can keep life expanding at any age.
This is a thoughtful, deeply human conversation about resilience, perspective, and why the RV Lifestyle can change far more than your address.
Also this week, Mike and Jen answer your RV Questions, including how much snow an RV roof can handle.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 587 of the RV podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | And this week on our stories from the road edition. |
| 0:09.1 | I talked to my daughter about this trip, and she said, Dad, you know, you live a half a mile from Mayo Clinic. |
| 0:16.1 | You're going to be out on the road and through the deserts and places where you won't have any medical. |
| 0:20.4 | I said, yeah, I've thought about that, but I said I've never allowed the what-ifs in life to deter me or keep me from doing what I could do. |
| 0:30.6 | In this episode's Conversation of the Week, we're going to hear once again from our friend and our former co-worker broadcast legend Mort Crim. |
| 0:40.2 | After completing the cross-country RV journey that we talked about last summer, |
| 0:44.9 | Mort returns to the RV podcast to share what the road taught him about America, |
| 0:51.0 | aging, grief, and why, as he approaches his 91st birthday, he's already planning a very full |
| 0:57.9 | 2026 RV travel season. Plus, we'll dig into your RV lifestyle questions, including one about |
| 1:05.7 | how much snow can your roof handle. This episode is number 587. |
| 1:11.4 | It's being released on January 28, 2026. |
| 1:15.5 | Hello, everybody, and welcome. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm Mike Wedlin. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm Jennifer Wendland, and this is the RV Podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | Stories from the Road. |
| 1:23.7 | And as a reminder, you can find complete show notes for this episode at RVpodcast.com, our central content hub for everything we do, podcast, blogs, videos, and our RV community. |
| 1:35.7 | We also want to remind you that if you have a comment or a question about anything you hear in this podcast, use our voicemail feature or drop us a note. You can find ways to do both |
| 1:46.4 | at RVpodcast.com. As we prepare this podcast, the nation is still assessing the damage from |
| 1:53.8 | winter storm fern. Some 20 deaths have been blamed on the storm so far, and damage estimates are |
| 1:59.7 | set at over 100 billion. |
| 2:01.7 | Cripling snow and massive icing has left many areas without power. |
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