Welcome to episode 454 of the RV podcast.

And this week, we talk about finding missing hikers in America's national parks.

You'll be surprised how many there are.

And a mystery gas sickens campers in a Colorado campground.

We have expert tips on how to properly take care of your RV awning.

And ingenious and simple hack on how easy it is to make an RV bed.

And the dismal facts that show RV shipments to dealers are down almost 50% this year, leading some manufacturers to be on extended shutdowns.

All this and more coming up in episode 4.54 of the RV podcast. Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Wedland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer.

And this is the Fourthth of July weekend everybody is

kind of making their way back as this episode is being released and that was a very busy camping

weekend for a lot of people yeah man everybody was on the road but to be expected I don't know

how it was all over the country but in michigan there

was some beautiful hot weather too hot but of course we had the smoke that kind of dampened everything

but uh man if anybody saw that picture our mackinaw bridge people lined up to get over that bridge

we uh we put a picture of that up uh on the r Lifestyle Facebook group and it was like a massive

lineup to get in.

I mean, a couple hours to get in.

The whole bridge was jammed.

I also saw a picture from Yosemite that showed a two-hour backlog of people.

It was a rolling video of just cars and dead stop waiting to get into Yosemite.

So a lot of people were camp, but we don't camp on the big weekends like that.

No, we're fortunate that we don't have to camp them, but woe to everybody that that's the only time they can camp,

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