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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

The Last Trip: A Husband’s POWERFUL Message After Unexpected TRAGIC Loss

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on the RV Podcast: * The Last Trip: A Husband’s Powerful Message After THE Unexpected Loss of his wife during an RV Trip * That Massive wildfire near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is STILL uncontrolled and is now the single worst wildfire in the entire nation. * RVers share the weirdest things they’ve seen in a campground - would you believe a pet kangaroo? * All this plus the RV News of the Week, Mike & Jen’s Storytime, and your questions coming up in Episode #558 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. RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK ​Grand Canyon's Megafire Now Largest of 2025 & So Intense, It Creates Its Own Weather​ The fire still burning through the north rim of the Grand Canyon is now officially the largest wildfire of 2025, a megafire, so hot it is creating its own weather patterns. The fire, which has created "fire clouds," has torched more than 116,500 acres as of Sunday and is about 12 percent contained, according to InciWeb. The north rim is closed for the remainder of the 2025 season, and the fire is still out of control and growing in size. ​Distressed Camper Nope—Just a Lone Guy Belting Out Nickelback​ Rescue teams rushed to help what they thought was a camper in distress in British Columbia, but it turns out those screams were from a guy rocking out to Nickelback in the middle of the woods. The man was solo camping in the Boulderfields, singing his heart out, when two nearby hikers called 911 after hearing what they described as “repeated cries." Members of a Search and Rescue crew were practicing nearby, so they brought in the drone team and enlisted two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers only to find the solo camper singing away, blissfully unaware. ​Birthday Camping Trip Ends in Deadly Explosion at Maine Campground​ Two friends celebrating a birthday by camping together at the Power Horn Family Camping Resort in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, were tragically killed after their camper exploded from a suspected propane leak. The women, ages 57 and 58, smelled a rotten, garlic-like odor in the camper so they opened the windows and lit a candle to mask the smell. But fire officials believe the bad odor was likely caused by a liquid propane leak which ignited when the candle was lit.  ​Father And Daughter Camping Trip Ends with Horrific Violent Attack and Father in Intensive Care​ A 58-year-old Georgia father remains in intensive care after suffering severe injuries durin...

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0:00.0

This week on the RV podcast, the last trip, a husband's powerful message after the unexpected loss of his wife during an RV trip.

0:09.9

The massive wildfire near the north rim of the Grand Canyon is still uncontrolled and is now the single worst wildfire in the entire nation.

0:19.7

RVers share the weirdest things they've seen in the campground.

0:24.2

Would you believe a pet kangaroo?

0:26.9

All this plus the RV news of the week.

0:29.3

Mike and Jen story time and your questions coming up in episode 558 of the RV podcast.

0:36.1

Hello everybody.

0:37.3

I'm Mike Wendland. This is my lifelong traveling companion

0:40.7

and my bride and the co-pilot of my lifelong adventure, Jennifer. How are you? I am doing

0:48.4

fantastic. It is an absolutely beautiful day. How could I be anything other than fantastic? August

0:53.5

is a great month. It's when the

0:55.9

nights start to cool off just a little bit. Maybe you want to wear a sweatshirt. The days are

1:01.7

gloriously warm. The sun seems to shine more in August. And coming up is September, which I think is

1:09.1

absolutely the best, September and October, the best months.

1:12.1

They're my favorite weather months. Yeah, yeah, mine too.

1:16.0

We're, let's see, we're on the road this week, taking another cruise in our new Class C, Cape C, from Embassy RV that we bought about a month or so, a month and a half ago.

1:26.2

And then actually, we got a couple of trips we're going to do.

1:29.2

And then we're ready to hook up the Montana Fifth Wheel

1:31.9

and take off for our major trip of the year,

1:35.2

which is tracing the Mississippi River from its origins up near Bimidgee, Minnesota,

1:40.9

all the way down to New Orleans.

1:42.2

We're doing that in September and part of October. Then in October, we got a big event too. Yeah, we've got one of our rallies coming up in Texas. In Fredericksburg, Texas in the Hill Country. So we are pretty excited about that. Yes, we do have two RVs. People always say, wait, I thought you were in a Class C. No, I thought you were in a fifth wheel. We have both.

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