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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Episode 145: The Power of a Dream

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week in our interview of the week, we meet Alicia Crabbe, a retired woman and solo traveler who is living her dream as a guide and naturalist, leading people on hikes and wilderness experiences for an organization known as Road Scholar, which is a not for profit group dedicated to providing educational travel. It offers 6,500 educational tours in all 50 states and 150 countries. And while Alicia, who everyone calls “Lish,” has a dream job of working much of the year at Yellowstone National Park, her story is one about the power of a dream. In her case, it was a dream that involved traveling the country by RV and experiencing nature in all its marvelous beauty. She began living it at retirement, after leaving a long professional career. Lish’s story is one of inspiration and joy, all focused on the RV lifestyle. Plus Jennifer and I answer your RV questions, we have the RV news of the week, RV Tips and a great offf the beaten path report. Click the player below to Listen Now or scroll down through the show note details. When you see a time code hyperlink, you can click it to jump directly to that segment of the podcast. [spp-player] MONOLOGUE Mike and Jennifer share their current location, near Glacier National Park and how much they love this area of the country. [spp-timestamp time="2:35"] We’re here on one of our Roadtreking gatherings, periodic get-togethers in awesome locations for photography and exploration. About 50 Roadtrekers in some 30 different RV’s and towables are with us, staying at the Chewing Blackbones Campground and RV Resort on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, right outside the park gates. JENNIFER'S TIP OF THE WEEK Jennifer The saga of making the interior of our RVs dark continues. Regular listeners know that we’ve been tossing around various ideas for covering up or reducing the light levels of the various LEDs, indicators and operational lights that shine from control panels while we are trying to sleep at night. We’ve talked about several solutions but a listener named Jan, who started the whole discussion a few weeks ago, has settled on a solution that works for her – and may very well also work for you. Liz explains how she uses small felt patches and sick-on Velcro to cover up the lights. [spp-timestamp time="7:00"] And for the rest of you out there in the audience, be sure to send me your tips and suggestions for the RV lifestyle. You can use the “Leave Voicemail” link at Roadtreking.com. Just click it and then use the built-in microphone on your computer or mobile devise to record a message to me. You can do it over as many times as you want, until you are satisfied. And then you just click a button and it comes right to my email inbox. I love hearing from you! Jennifer's tip of the week is brought to you by RadPower Bikes (www.RadPowerBikes.com_… an electric bike manufacturer offering direct to consumer pricing on powerful premium electric bikes. Now with free shipping! LISTENER QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK: Listener Dan knows Jennifer is an exercise nut and that finding a place for us (her especially) to work out is a very important part of our travel plans in any given day. So he asks for her advice in finding a solution to finding workout spots in different locations around the country. [spp-timestamp time="11:39"] Listener Tessa wants to know where to ride on a prairies schooner like the pioneers took out west Mike refers her to his post at https://rvlifestyle.com/rv-sidetrip-ride-covered-wagon-along-oregon-trail/ and a guy named Morris Carter in Casper, WY.  [spp-timestamp time="17:17"] Sponsoring this part of the podcast is Van City RV in St. Louis, and their Partner Dealerships Creston RV in Kalispell, Montana, and Wagon Trail RV in Las Vegas. Bringing You the largest Inventory of class B’s from three locations. PET TIP OF THE WEEK Mike and Jennifer talk dogs talk about why most National Parks don’t allow dogs in most areas and trails,

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody. This is episode 145.

0:04.4

It's time for the RV podcast. Traveling North America in an RV.

0:10.9

Exploring, camping, boondocking, embracing the RV lifestyle.

0:16.1

And sharing tips and where to go and how to keep things running right.

0:20.5

Here's award-winning journalist Mike Wenendland and his network of RV reporters.

0:25.8

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the RV podcast, and it doesn't make any difference

0:33.0

what kind of an RV you have, whether it's a motorhome, a towable trailer, a tent, even if you're

0:38.2

just dreaming about getting an RV someday, this podcast is for you because on this show we talk

0:45.0

about being out there, enjoying God's amazing creation, meeting interesting people, boondocking,

0:51.3

discovering fun places, and using the right gear and technology to enhance our RV lifestyle.

0:58.3

So welcome, everybody. We are honored that you chose to put us in your ears this week.

1:08.5

This is episode 145, and as it comes to you, we are recording it in, oh, my goodness, perhaps the most beautiful country that we have ever been in.

1:20.0

We are in upstate, upper Montana, the northern part of Montana, right near Glacier National Park.

1:27.9

We'll talk a little bit more about that in a second.

1:29.7

But hey, this is a very fun program.

1:31.8

One of the people we met up here is somebody who I just had to share her story with you.

1:37.7

And she will be our interview of the week this week.

1:40.7

Her name is Alicia Crabb, and she is a retired woman and a solo traveler who is living

1:46.6

her dream right now as a hiking guide, as a naturalist, you know, teaching people about nature

1:53.5

and leading people on hikes and wilderness experiences. But it's not so much that. It's about

1:59.4

her dream. She left a long career as a professional and retired at retirement age and followed a dream that she had had for 40 years to get an RV and to travel. And I can't wait to share her story with you. That coming up a little bit later plus we've got an off

2:17.7

the beaten path report about a great spot jennifer and i found in north dakota that we just have

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