The company that started the Van Life Movement 50 years ago!

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Greetings from sunny Florida for Episode 482, where we're spending a couple of weeks decompressing from the Florida RV Supershow and editing the videos we shot of all the new RVs. This week in the RV Podcast: Inside info on a new development in the Southwest where RVers can buy their own multi-acre RV property. A look at the RV company that started the whole van life movement – half a century ago! News about an RV company that instituted a very successful 4-day work week for its employees with no change in productivity or their pay. All this, plus the Social Media Buzz, the RV News of the Week, and your questions coming up in Episode #482 of the RV Podcast.

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0:00.0	This week in episode 482 of the RV podcast, Inside Information on a new development in the Southwest where RVers can buy their own multi-acre RV property.
0:12.5	A look at the RV company that started the whole van life movement half a century ago.
0:18.1	News about an RV company that instituted a very successful four-day work
0:22.9	week for its employees with no change in productivity or their pay. All this plus the RV
0:29.8	news of the week and your questions coming up in episode 482 of the RV podcast.
1:15.6	Hello everybody. I'm Mike Waddlin and this is my lifelong travel companion and my bride, Jennifer, coming to you today from beautiful Okalusa Island, Florida in the sunshine state, bright sun. We should have recorded this two hours ago because it's the noon sun kind of focusing on us. Back out there is the Gulf of Mexico, which you would have seen if we had done this earlier this morning, or we could wait around until sunset and do it then.
1:17.6	But no, we are going to do it now. So anyway, we are enjoying Florida.
1:22.6	The weather is about 65 degrees or so, which isn't too bad.
1:28.7	No, today has really shaped up to be a beautiful day.
1:32.0	The entire couple of weeks we've been down here, we've had foggy rain, warm, but not what you think of as Florida weather.
1:40.9	Here we want to remind you that this podcast is available in audio form, of course,
1:45.6	on all of your favorite podcast apps, and on video form, in video on our RV Lifestyle YouTube
1:53.1	channel. So you get it both ways. Hey, we want to first of all talk about just the phenomenal
2:00.4	growth that we have experienced in our brand new RV Lifestyle community.
2:05.6	And you find that at community.rvylifestyle.com.
2:09.6	We soft-launched that. It seems like it was just yesterday, but it was about a month ago.
2:14.6	And we are well over 7,000 members now.
2:20.0	And it is growing at the rate of close to 200 a day.
2:26.4	That is how amazing this has been.
2:29.3	And the feedback that we get from people is that they appreciate how friendly it is, how warm it is,
2:35.8	that there's none of that nastiness that you see on Facebook, and we have really enjoyed all of that.
2:41.6	It's free, and we invite you to come and be a part of it.
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