Welcome to the RV podcast number 401.

And in this episode, among other things, we're going to talk about how Jen and I do trip planning.

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

And this is episode 401 of the RV podcast. It's officially summertime.

It's nice and warm out there.

Yes, yes. This is the second week in a row. We have had really warm temperatures in the upper Midwest, which is where we happen to be coming to. This is from our studio. And we have been on the road. We were on the road over the Father's Day weekend. And we're getting ready for a big trip to Elkhart, Indiana soon for our Elkhart encounter. That'll be coming up in the middle of July.

And we got something else to tell you about a big gathering that we're going to have very soon in October,

in Tennessee, and this is the first official to everybody gathering announcements. So stay with us. That's coming just a second or two. But

last week at this time, we were talking about the unprecedented damage done to Yellowstone National

Park by floods. And there's some really good news today as this podcast episode is released,

because it looks like the park is partially reopened.

Four entrances are open and the north entrance is closed and they don't know when they'll get that open again.

Yep. They opened the Southern Loop entrances today.

Now it's going to be different because rangers are talking, they know they're going to have

to limit visitors. They're considering a couple other things. One of the things I think about is

using license plates to allow even numbers on even days and odd numbers on odd days, but

just be patient with them. It was amazing that they could get

the southern part open because crews have been working all week long, all last week after the

storms and the floods. They're doing excavation and repairs and repaving of a section of road in the southern part.

I'm amazed.

I am too.

I mean, if you looked at any of the video, we showed some last week in the podcast, but this massive storm washed out major sections of the road in the northern part of the park.

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