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RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Turning RV Adventures Into Photo Books

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

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

4.5704 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with an RVer who took more than 5,000 travel photos on her smartphone in just one year. She shares a surprisingly simple and creative way to turn those forgotten images into organized, meaningful memories you will actually enjoy, share, and keep for years to come.

Plus, we will dive into the RV News of the week, including a look at a major and costly change to national park admission fees for visitors from outside the U.S.

And in our Question of the Week, we’ll talk about tow/haul mode and why it's such a great feature for Rvers towing travel trailers and fifth wheels.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody, to episode 579 of the RV podcast. We're Mike and Jennifer Wendland.

0:06.5

And this week on the RV podcast, I spent all winter working on it. I do put a lot of time into it,

0:13.3

but it's fun because it gives me a chance to relive those memories. And oh, yeah, I forgot we had

0:18.2

gone here, we had gone there. And so it was fun to relive it and then start planning, yeah, we haven't made it to this

0:23.6

campground yet.

0:24.4

Let's plan that for next year.

0:26.1

In this week's conversation of the week, we're going to talk with an RVer who took

0:30.0

more than 5,000 travel photos on her smartphone in just one year.

0:35.6

She's going to share a surprisingly simple and creative way to turn

0:39.4

those forgotten images into organized and meaningful memories that you'll actually enjoy, share,

0:45.2

and keep for years to come. Plus, we're going to dive into the RV news of the week,

0:50.5

including a look at a major and costly change to national park admission fees for visitors

0:55.7

from outside the U.S. And in our question of the week, we're going to talk about toll hall mode

1:01.5

and why it's such a great feature on trucks for RVers who are towing travel trailers and

1:07.5

fifth wheels. This episode is being released on December 31st, 2025, and happy new year.

1:14.4

Yes, happy new year to everybody. It's hard to believe it's going to be 2026, and we're excited

1:20.3

to welcome it because we're going to start big. In fact, it all starts tomorrow night.

1:25.4

January 1st, 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

1:29.2

I'm going to kick things off with a special live online workshop that we're calling the RV

1:34.7

shopping survival guy.

1:37.2

Now, if you're planning to attend RV shows or you're thinking about buying an RV this year,

1:42.0

this is one workshop that you're not going to want to miss.

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