Worst RV Camping Fails Ever! Misery Loves Company
RV Podcast - Stories From The Road
Mike Wendland
4.5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Jennifer and I got brutally honest about some of the dumbest, most expensive, and most embarrassing mistakes we've made in 15 years of RVing. We talked about broken gear, costly blunders, rookie mistakes, and the kind of RV disasters that make you want to crawl under the camper and hide.
And wow... did that strike a nerve.
RVers from all over the country wrote in with stories of their own. Bent tailgates. Sewage explosions. Torn awnings. Backing disasters. Fuel mistakes. Near misses. And plenty of “please tell me nobody saw that” moments.
So this week, Misery Loves Company.
In this episode of the RV Podcast, we're sharing some of the funniest, most cringe-worthy, and painfully relatable RV mistakes sent in by fellow RVers, along with what caused them, what they learned, and how you can avoid making the same mistakes yourself.
If you've ever:
• Dumped your tanks wrong
• Forgotten to retract something before driving away
• Misjudged a turn or campsite
• Backed into something
• Made an expensive RV mistake you'll never admit publicly...
...this episode is for you.
Because every RVer has a story. Usually more than one.
Plus in this episode:
• RV tips to help you avoid costly mistakes
• Listener stories from the road
• Smart lessons learned the hard way
• A few laughs at our own expense
Listen now and discover why sometimes the best RV lessons come from the worst RV mistakes.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week on episode 6.08 of the RV podcast, we learn that misery loves company, and we're not alone in making dumb, expensive, and embarrassing mistakes as we shared in last week's episode. |
| 0:16.4 | That episode opened the floodgates, and our audience came through with some of the most relatable, |
| 0:22.5 | cringe-worthy RV mistakes we've ever heard of. But by hearing them this week, hopefully |
| 0:28.0 | you will avoid the same expensive lessons. That's coming up in this week's conversation |
| 0:33.5 | of the week. So hello everybody and welcome to the RV podcast. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my |
| 0:39.4 | co-host, my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer, hello, my dear. Hello, Mr. Mike. |
| 0:46.4 | And this is the RV podcast Stories from the Road Edition. You can find complete show notes for this |
| 0:52.0 | episode at RVPodcast.com. And remember, we release two episodes every week. |
| 0:58.0 | This edition, Stories from the Road, focuses on RV Lifestyle, |
| 1:02.1 | the people, places, and experiences that make life on the road so special. |
| 1:06.8 | And every Monday, we bring you our RV News edition, |
| 1:10.4 | covering the biggest stories of the week that impact your travels. |
| 1:14.4 | This episode is making us feel not quite so dumb. |
| 1:19.4 | Oh, now we can't call our listeners dumb. |
| 1:21.8 | No, but we felt pretty dumb when we went completely clean with all the mistakes that we've made last week. |
| 1:29.3 | And boy, everybody was so encouraging because they said, hey, you're not the only one. |
| 1:34.2 | And we collected so many of them. And it's interesting as we read them, some of them are pretty |
| 1:39.8 | funny, but some of them are pretty sad. But we realize that most of those mistakes, if not all, could be avoided by just following some procedures, a checklist. |
| 1:51.8 | And we're going to talk about that a whole lot, too. |
| 1:53.9 | So we're going to get right to that in just a moment. |
| 1:55.9 | But a quick reminder, peak travel season is coming up fast. |
| 2:00.0 | The Memorial Day weekend's almost here. You still have time to come up, though, with an RV protection plan. |
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