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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Empty Nest, Open Road: How One Couple Found Freedom in RV Life

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week on the RV Podcast: We have a great interview for you that we’re calling Empty Nest, Open Road: How One Couple Found Freedom in RV Life. You’ll meet our delightful friends Don and Karen, who share their RV retirement adventures and challenge us all to make every mile count, making friends and memories all across North America. Plus we have the pros and cons of an on-demand water heater.. The RV News of the Week, and much more coming up in Episode #567 of the RV Podcast

Transcript

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This week on the RV podcast, we have a great interview for you that we're calling

0:07.2

Empty Nest, Open Road, a one couple found freedom in RV life.

0:12.9

You're going to meet some delightful friends of ours, Don and Karen.

0:17.0

They're going to share that we RV retirement adventures and challenge us all to make every mile come,

0:23.2

making friends and memories off Christ America.

0:25.8

And that is what Don and Karen do.

0:28.2

You'll meet them, and even just watching their interview, you'll be their friends.

0:33.2

And we have the pros and cons of an on-demand water heater.

0:37.8

The RV News of the Week and much more coming up in episode 567 of the RV podcast.

0:43.9

Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Wedland. This is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer,

0:48.7

and we have been traveling, my dear.

0:50.8

We have been traveling and a good time.

0:53.7

Yeah, good times let them roll because we are in Nola,

0:58.0

New Orleans, Louisiana. At the very end, can you believe it, of our 34-day RV adventure from RV

1:07.2

Fantasy Toures, Fantasy RV RV tours, Mississippi River Adventure.

1:12.0

We started up in northern Minnesota.

1:15.3

Remember that river back there?

1:16.8

Midgie.

1:17.5

Yeah, by Midgie, Minnesota.

1:19.6

Yeah, it's been a really fun trip.

1:22.6

Do you remember how small that river was up there?

1:25.4

Yeah, it was fun.

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