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RV Podcast: Campgrounds are getting ready to reopen

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Campgrounds across North America are getting ready to open as we’re seeing many places in the US adopting a three-phased process to ease mandatory stay at home orders and travel prohibitions. The question is… when? Some campgrounds in a handful of states are planning to book new campers starting in May. Others have tentatively set reopening dates to a little later. Still, others say they have no idea. But whenever they do open, as we learn in our Interview of the Week segment, camping as we know it will be different, sometimes vastly different, with new procedures and policies that may be with us long into the future. We update the current open and closed list of campgrounds and hear from two industry experts, both of whom are voicing cautious optimism that the 2020 camping year will soon be starting – in one form or another. Plus, we have RV News of the week, your questions, and an off the beaten path report. But first, my lifelong traveling companion and my bride… Jennifer. Show Notes for Episode #291 of The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK Like you, Jen and I have pretty much been staying at home during this pandemic and while we are not in as strict of a lockdown as other places, we are starting to feel the strain of no travel and closed businesses. While there is a strong glimmer of hope that things are starting to improve and some of those restrictions will be lifted, I think we all have at least a couple more weeks yet where unnecessary travel will be prohibited by health and governmental authorities. But I am very optimistic now that, come summer, we will all be able to get back on the road. To that end, while we're all hunkered down, we now are doing two YouTube live streams. Our regular Sunday evening "Ask Us Anything" show on our RV Lifestyle YouTube Channel has been joined with a Friday night Virtual Campfire. Both start at 7 PM Eastern time and are a great way to stay connected and interact with the online RV Lifestyle community. Join us at https://youtube.com/rvlifestyle We invite you to pull up a chair and join us for the live streams! Here’s hoping that soon we'll be able to have real campfires again! We’ve been watching the Super B RV Show online this past week Like all in person RV shows, this year’s annual Super B Show I Phoenix was canceled. So the event organizers – LaMesa RV -moved it online and have been featuring video tours of various small motorhome models, along with live Q&A on their Facebook Page and YouTube Channel. The online Super B Show will continue all week. Here are the ones we’ve watched so far. The Pleasureway Ascent TS  - https://youtu.be/_pOmtyH0sDI The Pleasureway Tofino - https://youtu.be/MFqmsBWZqE8 The Leisure Travel Unity - https://youtu.be/iye_CPe0Dqw LaMesa is doing a live broadcast each day of different Class B units at 10 AM PT at https://www.facebook.com/lamesarv RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK Homeowners association refuses request by COVID-19 treating physician's assistant to live in RV in her driveway A New Jersey physician's assistant treating COVID-19 patients was denied the right to live in an RV in her driveway by her neighborhood homeowners association in Burlington County. The physician's assistant and her husband have a 6-year-old daughter, so the couple thought if she lived in an RV in the driveway she could see her daughter and husband and be close, but have the separation needed to protect their child. But apparently the homeowners association still denied the request.  Gary Bunzer, widely known as the RV doctor, dies after four-week fight against COVID-19 Last weekend we shared over our RV Lifestyle Facebook group, the very sad news that Gary Bunzer, known far and wide in the RV Community as "the RV Doctor," died in a Washington hospital after a four week battle with COVID-19. Gary was a frequent guest on our podcast and he made appearances in several of our videos. We last saw Gary in October in Elkhart,

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to episode 291.

0:04.4

Welcome, fellow travelers.

0:05.9

It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.

0:09.0

Answering your questions, sharing tips, suggesting great trips and off the beaten path adventures,

0:14.7

and always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about about with great interviews and inside industry information.

0:22.5

Here's your host, award-winning journalists, Mike and Jennifer Wendland.

0:26.8

Hey, everybody.

0:28.7

Cross North America, campgrounds aren't getting ready to open, and we're seeing many places in the U.S.

0:34.9

adopting a three-phase process to ease mandatory stay-at-home orders and

0:39.5

travel restrictions. The question is, is when's this going to happen? Some campgrounds and a

0:44.6

handful of states are planning to book new campers starting in May. Others, well, they've

0:49.3

tentatively set reopening dates for a little later. Still others say they have no idea.

0:55.1

Today, we're going to talk about that in our interview of the week segment,

0:58.2

give you a full rundown of the status of campgrounds across North America,

1:03.4

and lots more.

1:04.5

Off the Beaten Path Report from the Burkets, RV News, your questions,

1:08.6

and lots of RV lifestyle conversation. But first, my lifelong traveling

1:14.4

companion and my bride, Jennifer, hi, my dear. Hello, my Michael. Well, here we are. We have been now

1:22.1

sheltering in place. That's what some people call it. Staying at home, stay at home orders for how long

1:29.2

now? I think we're going on our second month. I well into our second month. And we are in,

1:35.6

for those of you who haven't been regular followers, we are in Florida on the Emerald Coast of the

1:41.4

Florida Panhandle on Okalusa Island.

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