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Mike Wendland
All about the RV Lifestyle – News, Interviews, Tips, Trip and camping resources
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Jan 8, 2025 • 39min
RV Show Tips, Ford Truck Recall & Dangers of Overconfidence
This week on the RV Podcast:
It’s RV Show Season, and if you’re planning on visiting a show, we have RV show tips to save you time AND money.
If you use a late model Ford Heavy Duty truck to pull your RV there’s a major recall that you need to know about
In Mike and Jen’s storytime, the dangers of bad weather and overconfidence
All this plus the RV News of the Week, and answers to your questions coming up in Episode 529 of the RV Podcast.

Jan 1, 2025 • 39min
2025 RV Travel Goals: Ideas, Tips, and Help
This week on the RV Podcast:
We’re On the Road Again: We share our 2025 RV Travel Plans and Goals. Maybe you can get some ideas for your RV trips, too.
By popular demand, we bring back the Mike and Jen’s Story Time segment, this week, focussing on our trip to Plains GA a while back where we encountered Jimmy Carter. As the nation celebrates the former Predsident’s 100-year life we remember a sweet encounter with a very decent man.
All this plus the Social Media Buzz, the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 528 of the RV Podcast.

Dec 18, 2024 • 29min
What’s Ahead? Our Honest, Unfiltered Predictions on 2025 RV Camping and Travel
This week on the RV Podcast:
We share our no-holds-barred predictions on 2025 RV Camping and Travel. We’ll tell you what to expect and identify 10 trends that will impact your RV Lifestyle in 2025.
Plus the Social Media Buzz, RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 527 of the RV Podcast

Dec 11, 2024 • 41min
How to Handle RV Warranty Disputes
This week on Episode 526 of the RV Podcast: How to Deal with RV Warranty Disputes - perhaps the industry's best-kept secret.
Plus, RV News of the Week, the Social Media Buzz, and answering YOUR questions about the RV Lifestyle.

Dec 4, 2024 • 45min
RV News Update: Now they say it’s not a “Ban” but may just be Motorhome “Unavailability”
This week on the RV Podcast: We answer all your questions about the controversial clean air regulations in California that are threatening to limit the availability of all large motorhomes in a bunch of states starting next year.
Is an all-electric, no water RV toilet right for you? Maybe… we’ll tell you the pros and cons
Plus, the Social Media Buzz and your questions coming up in Episode #525 of the RV Podcast

Nov 20, 2024 • 34min
More Confuson over Motorhome Ban
This week on the RV Podcast: There's more confusion over the so-called Motorhome Ban: The California Air Resources Board now denies there is a ban coming in 2025. The RV industry still insists there is.
RVers are urgently needed in North Carolina…to help those displaced by the hurricane to learn about their temporary RV housing.
In our RV Conversation of the Week: 7 Red flags about bad camping neighbors that may make you want to leave a campground.
All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode #524 of the RV Podcast.

Nov 13, 2024 • 42min
More Bad News! 2025 California Motorhome Ban even includes Class Bs
There’s more bad news about the 2025 California Motorhome Ban, which even includes Class Bs, as well as some Heavy Duty Trucks. The fallout from these California clean air regulations threatens to have a major impact in the RV industry. We detail the latest. Also, in the podcast, news of RV recalls, off-season suggestions, and a warning about traveling toll roads in an RV.

Nov 6, 2024 • 31min
Breaking News! Motorhome Sales Banned in Six States
Big motorhome sales banned in California and five other states, effective Jan 1, 2025!
This is a special edition of the RV Podcast involving a breaking story that we need to get out there. California and five other states have a controversial regulation in place that will effectively ban the sale of most large motorhomes starting January 1, 2025. How could this happen? We dig into this in this Special Episode of the RV Podcast.
PLUS other news of the week, the Social Media Buzz, and answering your questions.

Oct 30, 2024 • 43min
Campground Theft: Is it Getting Worse?
This week on the RV Podcast: Campground theft: How to Protect Your Gear while camping
Somebody is trying to keep folks out of an Oregon national forest by burying planks booby-trapped with nails on forest roads.
How RVers can get a nice break on diesel prices.
All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode #521 of the RV Podcast

Oct 23, 2024 • 41min
An “UNBEETABLE” Workamping Experience – The Sugar Beet Harvest
This week on the RV Podcast:
An UNBEETABLE RV Experience. And we spell Beet BEET. Were talking about RVers who Workcamp the Sugar Beet Harvest. We'll explain all in the RV Conversation of the Week
Brinkley RV is continuing to set the pace in the RV industry, this time with an all-new luxury Ultralite Travel Trailer that can be towed by a large SUV.
A Major RV manufacturer has shut down its two California plants because it's just too expensive to do business there. And this comes as the state proposes a clean air fee that could add another 65 cents a gallon to its sky-high fuel costs.
All this, plus the Social Media Buzz and your questions coming up in Episode #520 of the RV Podcast.


