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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Frank Conversations about RV Frustrations

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for some straight talk: The RV Lifestyle is not as idyllic as you may dream it is. At times it can be quite frustrating. We surveyed our RV Podcast Community and in this episode, we’re going to tell you what bugs RVers the most and what can be done about it! Plus, we’ll talk about carrying a gun in an RV and whether it’s time to bring back CB Radio! Show Notes for Episode #257 Aug. 28, 2019 of The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK Mike and Jennifer at the beach MIKE We’re coming to you this week from Okaloosa Island, on the beautiful Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida. This is our base for some wide-ranging travel across the Gulf States and into Southwest Georgia, where we will be catching several high school football games to watch our grandson, Matthew, Play. JENNIFER Yes, it is beautiful down here on the Emerald Coast. But it is also very hot and humid this time of year. The temperatures are in the 90’s and the humidity percentage pretty much matches it. The only place where you can get some relief is if you are on the beach. MIKE And that is exactly where we plan to be this Sunday, Sept. 1 for a meet and greet for our Fellow Travelers who are able to join us on the Gulf Islands National Seashore. We’ll meetup in the first parking lot of the National Seashore, heading west from the Navarre Beach bridge. Show up at 3PM and bring your beach chairs and whatever refreshments you want. We’ll hang out till 6PM when we do our weekly Ask Us Anything live stream on the YouTube RV Lifestyle Channel. Once that’s over, for those who want, we’ll head to a nearby restaurant for dinner. We love doing these meet and greets as we travel and we’ll have some RV Lifestyle stickers to give away and we’ll do tours of our RV. And you can meet Bo, too! JENNIFER Speaking of meet and greets, we’re a little over a month away from America’s largest RV Show in Hershey, PA, and once again, Mike and I will be there. The show runs Sept. 11-15 and we will be doing a meet and greet from noon on Saturday Sept. 14. We’ll be hanging out in the Leisure Travel Vans Display area and we’ll do a special live YouTube broadcast from there about 3PM. So if you’re coming to Hershey, please come and say hello! MIKE For those of you on the west coast who can’t come east to Hershey, look for us at the California RV Show in Fontana, California October 4-13. We’ll be doing meet and greets there throughout the day on Saturday October 5, opening weekend of this big two week show. JENNIFER And while we’re talking about get togethers, maybe we should talk about one more: Our annual Winter Campout in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula at the beautiful Tahquamenon Falls State Park. We just booked the dates -January 9-12, 2020. This will be the sixth year we have gathered up there to play in the snow and hang together in the beautiful UP. MIKE This is an informal gathering, which means you have to make your own reservations with the Michigan DNR. Go to their website at https://midnrreservations.com/. Book the dates you want (some of us are coming Thursday, some are even staying over to Monday). After you make your reservation, be sure to join our special winter campout Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1697339513886451/ and introduce yourself and tell us what site you booked. All communication, announcements, etc as we get close to the date will be done through that group. JENNIFER Those are just some of the events and things we have planned over the next several months. There’s also the Elkhart Open House, in Elkhart, Indiana in late September. That’s a closed event for industry members but since so many new RVs are being shown, we always try and get down there to do a couple of reports for you. Elkhart, of course, is the RV Capital of the World, where the vast majority of RVs are built and where many of the major suppliers and parts companies are located. MIKE Then there is Matthew’s football movie,

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0:00.0

Hey, fellow travelers, it's time for some straight talk. The RV lifestyle is not as idyllic as you may dream it is.

0:09.2

At times, it can be quite frustrating. We surveyed our RV podcast community, and in this episode of the podcast,

0:16.8

we're going to tell you what bugs RVers the most and maybe what can be done about it.

0:22.9

Plus, we'll talk about a controversial topic carrying a gun in an RV and whether it's time to bring back CB Radio.

0:33.3

Welcome, fellow travelers. It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.

0:38.0

Answering your questions.

0:39.6

Sharing tips.

0:40.6

Suggesting great trips and off the beaten path adventures.

0:43.8

And always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about with great interviews and inside industry information.

0:51.6

Here's your host.

0:52.7

Award winning journalists, Mike and Jennifer

0:54.7

Wendland.

0:57.3

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition, 257, to be exact, of the RV podcast. And no matter what

1:05.0

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

1:10.3

you're just dreaming about getting an RV someday,

1:12.9

this show is for you because here we talk about getting out there,

1:17.5

enjoying God's amazing creation, meeting interesting people,

1:20.8

boondocking, discovering fun places,

1:23.3

and always using the right gear and technology to enhance our RV lifestyle.

1:28.4

So welcome.

1:30.0

We are very, very honest that you chose to put us in your ears this week.

1:40.5

Hey, before we get started, just a quick reminder, all of the links, the news stories, the resources and websites that we mentioned in this podcast, they can be found in the show notes for this episode.

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