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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Surviving 80 mph winds in an RV!

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on Episode 539 of the RV Podcast: * Surviving 80 miles an hour winds in an RV. You’ll hear one couple’s harrowing tale of a dark and stormy night * There are growing indications that a lot of Canadians are deciding not to take vacations in the US this year because of the Trump administration’s ongoing issues with Canada * In this week’s Storytime with Mike & Jen segment, the tale of Mike’s Great Awakening * All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 539 of the RV Podcast You can watch the video version from our RV Lifestyle YouTube Channel by clicking the player below. If you prefer an audio-only podcast, you can hear us through your favorite podcast app or listen now through the player below. Two Personal Decisions about our RV Lifestyle We've made two big personal decisions that we want to share with you since they directly impact our RV adventures moving forward. So, you know our beautiful "Loblolly Ridge" property down in Tennessee? Those five acres at the Woodlands at Buffalo River near Linden? Well, with heavy hearts, we've decided it's time to let it go. Truth is, our travel schedule has just gotten so crazy busy that we haven't been able to enjoy that special place nearly as much as we wanted to. And honestly, this year's looking even crazier, which means getting down there would be pretty much impossible. For those of you who've watched our YouTube videos about the property, you know how much we absolutely love that land and the awesome neighbors we have there. It's got those three full hookup RV spots, tons of privacy, that nice concrete pad, city water, and the county even maintains the road right up to it. We've talked about how special this place is in so many of our videos! We've asked our good friend Troy Rindy, who's a local realtor, to help us with selling it. If any of you might be interested, you can reach Troy through his website at twabr.com or just give him a call at 931-218-6350. Troy's handling all the details for us. But you might be wondering, "Why else are y'all selling?" Well, that brings us to our second big announcement... We're adding a motorhome to our family! (Eventually) Now don't worry - we are absolutely keeping our Montana fifth wheel! It's our "condo on wheels" and perfect for those longer adventures we love so much. But here's the deal - we're planning to use the money from selling the Tennessee property to help buy a Class C or B+ motorhome for shorter trips. The best part? This will give us the flexibility to share it with family who want to join us on our camping adventures - especially the grandkids! They can use the motorhome while we camp in our fifth wheel. As for which motorhome we're getting - we're still shopping! We've been researching like crazy and have lots of options we're looking at. We're open to both new and used models, and we promise we'll share our decision once we find "the one." For now, we've got plenty of shopping ahead of us! RV CONVERSATION OF THE WEEK - A Night of High Winds Today, we're talking with Susie and Wayne Smith, a couple from Michigan whose RV adventure took an unexpected turn when they found themselves facing nature's fury at an RV park near the Texas-Oklahoma border. Just two weeks ago, the Smiths experienced what many RVers dread - mass...

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0:00.0

This week on the RV podcast.

0:02.1

Surviving 80 mile an hour winds in an RV, you'll hear one couple's harrowing tale of a long and stormy night.

0:10.4

There are growing indications that a lot of Canadians are deciding not to take vacations in the U.S. this year because of the Trump administration's ongoing issues with Canada.

0:22.5

In this week's storytime with Mike and Jen, we'll talk about Mike's great awakening.

0:29.4

All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in episode 539 of the RV

0:36.0

podcast.

0:37.6

Hello everybody, I'm Mike Wedland and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride

0:42.4

looking pretty spiffy. Are we not in our new hoodies? Yeah. RV lifestyle merch on it.

0:53.0

I got to say, I like not having black.

0:56.0

Yes.

0:57.0

I like this is a green and I like the green.

0:58.0

We haven't be recording this.

1:00.0

Thanks in St. Patrick's Day Week, so you're in your nice green.

1:05.0

It looks good.

1:06.0

And I'm in my favorite black hoodie, so we're there.

1:10.0

We're delighted to have you guys with us. We are still

1:12.8

down in Florida. We are going to be down here for probably another two, maybe three weeks,

1:18.4

and then we'll be making our way north where we got a lot of traveling to do under our belt,

1:24.0

put under our belt and under the wheels of our RV as we get the rest of the travel season started here.

1:31.3

Hey, we want to tell you, we mentioned this on Ask Us Anything the other night.

1:36.3

And you guys don't know what Ask Us Anything is, that's our Sunday night live stream that we do on multiple platforms.

1:42.3

But we mentioned it there that we have made a couple of big decisions that we do on multiple platforms, but we mentioned it there, that we have made a couple of

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