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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Retired and Loving RV Life: How They Did It!

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week on the RV Podcast, we’ll meet two couples who have made the RV Lifestyle a huge part of their retirement and hear how they are now living the Best Chapter Yet. Plus the RV Industry News, the Social Media Buzz, and a great question from one of our readers on where to get his rig washed. You can read, listen to, or WATCH the podcast right here...

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0:00.0

This week in episode 568 of the RV podcast.

0:04.0

So your kids are grown.

0:05.5

You've done the 9 to 5.

0:07.4

It's your time now.

0:09.0

Well, this week, you'll meet two couples who have made the RV lifestyle a huge part of their retirement.

0:14.6

And hear how they are now living the best chapter yet.

0:18.7

Hello, everybody.

0:19.5

I am Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion

0:23.1

and my bride, Jennifer. My dear, we have been on the road for pretty much two months now.

0:29.9

And enjoying it very much. Yep. Our Mississippi River tour has ended from its unimpressive start up in the woods of northern Minnesota to where

0:39.9

it disappears in the swamps of southern Louisiana. We had a great time. And now we are in

0:46.8

Fredericksburg, Texas. In the heart of the hill country for a week-long RV lifestyle rally.

0:53.4

It's like everybody's coming to visit.

0:57.1

Like when you got family coming and you know how much fun you're going to have.

1:01.2

We came a couple days early and a couple of them are here already.

1:06.9

But we're waiting for everybody and a few more are coming today, a few more tomorrow,

1:11.2

and then officially it starts on Tuesday.

1:14.3

We're recording this on Sunday a little earlier so that we can have some uninterrupted time with everybody.

1:21.6

This is our third rally for RV community members that we have done so far this year. We did a spring rally. We did a

1:31.3

summer rally and now here we are in Texas. What a great town Fredericksburg is. We've been exploring

1:37.8

it a little bit. We've had a little free time to go out and see some of the things that we'll be

1:43.2

looking at as a whole group this week.

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