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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

RV Tire Maintenance, What NOT to Bring on an RV Trip and How to Sanitize your RV Freshwater

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on the RV Podcast: * RV Tire Maintenance. When do you replace them? How do you maintain them? * We all have seen the lists on what to bring on an RV Trip. But in the  Social Media Buzz segment, we’ll tell you what NOT to bring, the things real RVers say are a total waste of space. * How to sanitize your RV freshwater system for the new camping season. We’ll give you a concise step by step guide. * And in Mike and Jen’s storytime, the Tale of the Tape Measure… or how to get off the fence of indecision. * All this and more coming up in Episode 543 of the RV Podcast For a video version of the podcast, watch below: For an audio version, listen through your favorite podcast app or via the player below: We have another giveaway for you. If you travel with pets we’re giving away two prizes: Countdown for our Sweepstakes - just a few days left! We are very happy to work again with WAGGLE. And for this sweepstakes, they are giving away TWO prizes! The first winner gets a Waggle Pet Monitor, which sends alerts to your phone if the temperature inside your RV becomes unsafe for your pet. The second winner gets an RV Mini Cam that lets you check 360-degree video from inside your RV. It has two-way audio and motion tracking so you can visibly monitor the inside of your RV from wherever you are on your phone. Just go to RVLifestyle.com/sweepstakes to enter. We’ll announce the winners on April 20, 2025. You can also get a great discount if you don't want to wait and choose to purchase either device. Details at https://rvlifestyle.com/sweepstakes/ RV NEWS OF THE WEEK Gas Prices Falling — Just in Time to Hit the Road!​  Gas prices are coming down even though this is the time of year they usually go up. AAA says the reason is that  OPEC is increasing oil production much more than expected. Prices nationwide are $3.22 per gallon currently. Last year at this time they were $3.61. ​National Park Service Purge? 1 in 8 Workers Take Trump Admin Offer  ​An estimated 12.5% of the NPS's workforce took one of the three Trump administration offers to resign or retire early. How this will impact park visitors is not immediately clear, but the National Parks Conservation Association, which is collecting these numbers, says it is greatly concerned. ​Grand Design & Winnebago Slammed with Class Action Over ‘Deceptive’ Frames: Owners Demand Justice​  The frame flex debate just ratcheted up a notch with a class action lawsuit being filed against Winnebago Industries and Grand Design, claiming the company not only knew the frames were deceptive but marketed them deceptively. The suit is seeking a recall and monetary and punitive damages on behalf of the thousands of owners whose lives were "upended."

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0:00.0

This week on the RV podcast.

0:02.0

RV tires, when do you replace them and how do you maintain them?

0:06.6

We all have seen the lists on what to bring on an RV trip.

0:11.3

But in the social media buzz segment, we'll tell you what not to bring.

0:15.6

The things real RVers say are a total waste of space.

0:20.4

How to sanitize your RV freshwater system for the new camping season will give you a concise

0:26.5

step-by-step guide.

0:28.6

And in my congenced story time, the tale of the tape measure, or how to get off the fence

0:34.6

of indecision.

0:35.7

All this and more coming up in episode 543 of the RV podcast.

0:41.8

Hello everybody. I am Mike Wendland and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride.

0:47.0

Jennifer, hello my dear. Hello, my Michael. Should tell everybody that we are on the road again.

0:52.9

I should sing that song like Willie Nelson. We are eventually

0:56.6

going to make our way down to Nashville, Tennessee, as our RV community is hosting our first

1:02.4

rally of the year, our spring rally in Music City. We're all going to go to the Grand Old

1:07.1

Opera, among other things. That's going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait to get down there

1:11.2

and see everybody. I can't believe that. We're going to be there before we know it. We will.

1:15.4

We have another giveaway for you. If you travel with pets, we are giving away two prizes you need

1:21.1

to know about. First winner gets a waggle pet monitor, which sends alerts to your phone if the

1:26.8

temperature inside your RV becomes unsafe for your pet.

1:30.6

And the second winner gets an RV minicam.

1:34.3

It lets you check 360-degree video from inside your RV.

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