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RV Podcast 240: How to RV fulltime as a family

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s estimated that there are a million plus fulltime RVers out there, traveling North America and living pretty much fulltime in their RVs. And those ranks are growing more and more every day. Jennifer and I have noticed this in our travels. We are meeting more fulltimers on seemingly every trip and many of them are families. Mom and Dad work from the road, the kids are educated on the road and the families are thriving, seeing all the wonders of North America, together. Does this idea intrigue you? Then stick around. We talk to an expert who has helped hundreds of families discover the joy of fulltime RVing. She’ll tell you who this is for, who it is not for and how to test if out for you and your family. Also this week, your RV Lifestyle questions, RV news of the week and a great off-the-beaten-path report from the Burketts. Show Notes for Episode #240 May 1, 2019 of The RV Podcast WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK JENNIFER April showers bring May flowers. Well, now that it is May we're sure hoping the steady dose of cold, wet, soggy weather we've had in the Upper Midwest lately will indeed give way to May flowers soon. MIKE Especially Tulips as Holland, Michigan and its famed Tulip Time Festival is where we're headed next week.  JENNIFER This week, we're still outfitting and organizing our RV for the summer travel season. People can check out our Thursday video on the RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube for an update on just what we've been doing. MIKE What are we doing here? Catching up, mostly. I’m editing, writing and organizing all the video photos and stories we’ve collected in the road over the past four months. We have family to visit and some yard work to do to get our home up here ready for the warm weather. JENNIFER I’ve been trimming rose bushes. Mike’s been trimming trees… largely so they don’t scrape up against our new RV, which we just purchased a few weeks ago. We’re also hard at work in our next Seven Day Adventure Guide eBook, to join the ones we’ve already done on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the southern part of Utah. MIKE The next guide should be ready in the next two weeks. It’s about one of favorite places to explore by RV… Colorado. Like the others in the series, it will suggest seven must see attractions, tell you routes to follow to get there, where to stay and what to do in the area. We price these guides very low, at just $7 each and being eBooks, they not only give you a curated guide for the trip, but they link to all sorts if other resources that will help you in your RV journeys as you visit the area. Colorado will be the next one. And we have a whole bunch mire planned. RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK  JENNIFER A woman at Grand Canyon National Park last week falls to death - fourth such death in a month Another visitor fell to death last week at the Grand Canyon National Park, bringing to four the number of deaths there since late March. Officials are warning visitors to stay on clearly marked trails and not get too close to the edge. MIKE Baby birds discovered living in a nest in the front of a Winnebago  RV after family stopped just 3 weeks to camp  A family making their way north from southern Florida had quite the surprise last week when they made a pit stop in Naples, heard sounds from the front of their RV and discovered three baby birds in a nest in their grill. The family spent three weeks camping around Homestead, which apparently was enough time for the parents to build a nest in there, lay eggs and the eggs to hatch. JENNIFER Man spends $10,000 on RV but never given title, says he was duped A man in Arizona says he paid $10,000 to an RV dealer and drove off the lot with his purchase, but never given the title. Now five months later, he still has no proof the RV is his. The dealership went out of business and without the title he can’t get the RV permanently registered. He’s hired an attorney but the owners of the now closed Scottsdale RV dealership in Phoenix are now...

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode number 240.

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It's time for the RV podcast.

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Traveling North America in an RV.

0:12.0

Exploring, camping, boondocking, embracing the RV lifestyle,

0:17.0

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

0:21.6

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

0:26.8

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the RV podcast.

0:31.8

It doesn't make any difference what kind of an RV you have, whether it's a motorhome, a towable, a tent, even if you're just

0:39.7

dreaming about getting an RV someday, this is for you because on this podcast, we talk about

0:46.0

getting out there, enjoying God's amazing creation, meeting interesting people, boondocking,

0:52.7

discovering fun places, and of course always using the right

0:56.6

gear and technology to enhance our RV lifestyle. So welcome. We are very honored that you chose to

1:06.0

put us in your ears this week. Well, thank you so much for being a part of the podcast again on another week.

1:14.2

And, of course, it is a brand new time for us because it's May.

1:19.4

May.

1:20.3

Well, May 1st is when this edition of the podcast is being released.

1:26.5

You know, it's estimated that there are a million plus

1:30.5

full-time RVers out there traveling North America and living pretty much full-time, all the time,

1:37.2

365 days a year in their RVs. And those ranks are growing more and more every day. Jennifer and I have noticed this in our travels

1:47.2

over the last couple of years. It seems like every place we go, we're meeting more full-timers

1:51.8

on seemingly every trip, and many of them are families. Mom and dad work from the road.

1:59.7

The kids are educated on the road and the families are thriving

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