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RV Podcast 239: Making your RV dreams come true

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Coming up in the interview of the week is Dan Miller, a New York Times best-selling author whose amazingly successful books and podcast about setting priorities and achieving your dreams has greatly influenced Jennifer and me and helped us find the way to make the RV Lifestyle a reality. For all those of you out there dreaming about doing the same thing…. “someday”… Dan Miller is going to inspire you and motivate you to also make that “someday”…today. You are going to love Dan Miller. Also this week, RV News, an update on what Jennifer and I are up to these days, an off the beaten path report from the Burketts and listener questions in which we tell you the three most important things to do before you take possession of a new RV. But first, my lifelong traveling companion and my bride…Jennifer. Show Notes for Episode #239 April 24, 2019 of The RV Podcast WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK JENNIFER We’re back home in Michigan after being on the road for most of the past four months. In all we have covered more than 8,000 miles since the first of the year in 16 states. Catching up with work around our sticks and bricks house up here for the next week or so and then we’re off again. MIKE It was quite a trip back… with non-stop rain for the better part of 36 hours as we traveled north from Florida. Our route coincided with the track of a storm front. There’s a post on our RV Lifestyle blog about that you can read. We just took our time and stuck to our 330 Rule of traveling no more than 330 Miles or stopping b 3:30 PM. JENNIFER By the way, while we say “our” rule we mean it in the sense of it’s a rule we follow as best we can, not something we claim to have originated. It’s been around in various forms… a 2/2 Rule…  3/3 rule… that sort of stuff…for years. So we have no idea who first came up with it but we gladly embrace it as a rule we follow. Our 330 Rule sticker pack MIKE And that resonates with a lot of you. So much so that we printed up a variety of fun Rule 330 stickers that we’re selling on our online shop. We have a four pack of the 330 Rule stickers that a lot of folks have been getting, as well as coffee mugs and T-shirts. Just fun stuff that reminds us all to slow down, that it’s all about the journey, not the destination. JENNIFER Meanwhile, we’re looking forward to our next RV … to take in the fun of the Tulip Time festival in Holland, MI in early May. It runs from May 4-12. It’s a big annual event, with more than 5 million tulips of every possible color and shade in bloom throughout the city, along with parades, Dutch wooden shoe dancers and lots of local entertainment. We’ll be hanging out May 9-12 with a group of Leisure Travel Van Owners there for a rally sponsored by the local dealer, Holland Motor Homes, and we’re looking forward to meeting other LTV owners and getting ideas from them on how we can personalize or new 2019 Unity FX. Holland, MI's Tulip Time MIKE We haven’t had much of a chance to add a lot of extras or install things like a cell phone booster yet. We’re looking at new cell boosters soon to come of the market that is engineered specifically for Class B and Class C RVs. We’re thinking we want to try this when it becomes available in a couple of weeks. And we’re also considering replacing our coach batteries with lithium batteries and an upgraded inverter. But we’re in no rush and as we have bought this new RV ourselves, we want to do things right and only install extras. To be frank, right now, it’s performed so well that I’m not sure what, if anything, we need to improve. JENNIFER I’m still finding a place for everything and putting everything in its place. There’s always an adjustment and discovery period with a new RV in which we figure out where things should go and how things should be organized. As we start our second month of ownership of our coach, I’m adding little things like a silverware holder, a wastebasket, putting shelf paper down,

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0:00.0

Get ready. Here comes episode number 239.

0:07.0

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

0:13.0

Exploring, camping, boondocking, embracing the RV lifestyle,

0:18.0

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

0:23.1

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

0:29.6

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the RV podcast. You know, it doesn't make any difference what kind of an RV you have, whether it is a motor home, a towable trailer, a tent.

0:42.0

Even if you're just dreaming about getting an RV someday, this show is for you because on this podcast, we talk about getting out there.

0:51.8

Enjoying God's amazing creation. Meeting interesting people, boondocking, discovering

0:57.3

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

1:05.0

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

1:11.6

Well, coming up in the interview of the week this week is Dan Miller, a New York Times bestselling author

1:19.8

whose amazingly successful books and podcast about setting priorities and achieving your dreams has greatly influenced Jennifer

1:30.4

and me. In fact, Dan Miller's principles and teachings have really helped us find a way to make

1:38.5

this RV lifestyle that we're now living a reality for us. Now for all of those out there dreaming about doing the same

1:47.4

thing someday, Dan Miller is going to, I am sure, inspire you and motivate you to also make that

1:56.2

someday today. You're going to love Dan Miller. He's coming up in just a few minutes here. But also this

2:03.2

week, we've got RV News of the week. We have an update and what Jennifer and I are up to these days.

2:08.5

We have an off the beaten path report from the Burkets and, of course, listener questions. And this week,

2:14.9

we're going to tell you the three most important things that you

2:19.6

can do before you take possession of a new RV. But first, my lifelong traveling companion and my

2:27.3

bride, Jennifer, hi dear. Hello, Michael. Well, here we are. Easter has come and gone. Spring is

2:33.2

firmly entrenched and even in the northern

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