RV Horror Stories: Real RVers Share Real RV Fails

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This week on the RV podcast.

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RV

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horror stories. Real RVers are gonna share some

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of their most embarrassing fails

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and their operator errors.

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And is it right for state parks to

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give priority camping reservations and special rates

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only to in state residents?

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And getting rid of condensation

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stains on RV shades. There is an easy

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solution to make them look like you again.

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Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is

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my lifelong traveling companion and my bride,

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Jennifer. Hi, everybody out there. What happened to

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summer?

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Well,

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just like everything else, it doesn't stay forever.

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Seems like we're,

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we were just talking about the Memorial Day

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weekend camping,

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and then the 4th July, and now we're

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Labor Day's gone. Labor Day's gone.

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But I don't think we're disappointed.

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We're not disappointed because,

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fall is just our absolute favorite time to

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camp.

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And the parks and the campgrounds, you know,

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they're they're less filled.

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The weather is more comfortable.

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And the bugs

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are on their way out. And, plus, there's

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fall colors. Mhmm. And speaking of fall colors,

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we noticed the trees in Maine and now

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the trees in Michigan.

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They're, starting to turn as well.

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And no doubt, the seasons are changing.

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In fact, I should point out we just

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updated our annual

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leaf peeping map.

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We do a post on RV lifestyle every

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year about this time. And we give you,

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interactive

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maps, and you can plan your fall color

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adventures that shows you where the leaves are

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expected to, to show up, with,

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burst of color first.

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One map we have is from the smokymountains.com,

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and the other is from hip camp.

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And, we'll put,

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you can find that. We'll put a link

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to it in the show notes below, but

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they're right on our rvlifestyle.com

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blog.

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So we should tell them we got a

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big tour coming. We do, and we would

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love it if you joined us on the

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Great

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River tour, September 5th to October 8, 2025.

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A year from now. Now over the weekend,

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we announced

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that we are definitely doing another fantasy

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RV tour next year

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for our lifestyle,

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RV Lifestyle followers. We just came back from

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the Maritimes, and we said that we had

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such a great time.

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Fantasy RV put together a tour just for

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RV Lifestyle followers.

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And,

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we said we'll we'll we'll probably do another

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one, and we are,

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in those states, like Jen said, September 5th

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through October 8th. So what we're gonna do

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is we're gonna do the Mississippi River, We're

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gonna start in Northern Minnesota where the Mississippi

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River begins. You can literally walk across it,

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and we'll follow it all the way down

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to New Orleans where it flows into the

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Gulf of Mexico.

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So we're gonna explore the river's amazing history,

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the great river towns.

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And,

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we're gonna hang around the different,

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the banks of the river, both sides of

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it, learning all about it. We're gonna hear

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some great music, and we're gonna have some

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good food and experience the culture.

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And you can get all the details at

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rvlifestyle.com/rivertour.

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Now if you prefer,

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we'll put a link in the description below

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because many of you will listen to this

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podcast as you're driving.

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Come join us on the great river tour

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next year.

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Alright. We're gonna have,

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some fun here with the conversation we recorded

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around the campfire and our conversation

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of the week in just a moment.

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But first, we wanna talk about an opportunity,

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for you to,

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avoid those high service costs when you have

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to have repairs onto your RV.

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Do it yourself.

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I know that sounds kind of daunting to

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a lot of us, but through the National

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RV Training Academy, there are a couple of

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courses, online courses that you can do. They're

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taught by Todd Henson. We've had Todd on

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the podcast

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many times as guests before, and, he's just

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so made complicated things so easy to understand.

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But if you can learn to do some

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repairs yourself,

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no more long waits at dealers for maintenance,

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and it can literally save you 1,000 of

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dollars over the years. You will also get

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the confidence to

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diagnose and solve,

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repair issues because that's exactly what the National

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RV Training Academy does. They train RV techs

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around the country.

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Now there are 2 courses,

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and if you buy,

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either one of these, you get lifetime access

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to it.

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There are, 2 of them, the RV maintenance

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and repair course.

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We recommend that to every RVer.

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The other is the RV owner pro course,

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which goes into a little more detail.

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Here's the thing, though. You only have 2

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weeks to save 35%.

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They've,

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set up a deal just for our followers,

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the RV Lifestyle followers, those listening to this

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podcast

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or watching this podcast,

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if you go to rvlifestyle.com/rvtech35,

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rvlifestyle.com/rvtech35,

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you'll be able to get a 35%

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discount. It's only good till September 14,

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2024.

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You need to use this and you need

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to use the code, but this is such

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a great thing to have. You know, I

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consider this like owning a home or having

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a car. There's certain maintenance that you have

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to do, and you feel helpless when things

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happen to your your RV, and you think,

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man, I should be able to figure this

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out.

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And by taking a course or or both

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courses,

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I just think it would, help you. You

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wouldn't be at the mercy of trying to

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get it into a dealer or trying to

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get a mobile tech to come out wherever

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you are in preventative work

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so that these things don't happen to you

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when you're in the middle of nowhere. So,

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again, we can get 35%.

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The cost is always already very reasonable. We

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can get you 35% off if you order

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by September

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14th. You know what? I'm thinking about the

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people that are handy. You know, they're good

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with cars and engines and all this sort

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of thing, maintenance. Anyway,

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they get a taste of all this, and

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they'll be able to figure it out on

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their own. And who knows? Some of them

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might wanna become a mobile tech. Yeah. Yeah.

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That's that's a really it's it's a huge

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field. Lots of opportunity.

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Alright. Go check out the relay look in

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the description below. We'll put a link so

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you can, you can look up these courses.

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Time now for our RV conversation

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of the week, and, this is gonna be

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fun.

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You know, all of us have done things

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that we wish we hadn't done.

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when everybody sits around, well, oh, what up

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you? Let me tell you about what I

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did. Oh, man.

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It makes you feel better about yourself and

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you feel closer to them, you know, you're

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kind of brothers and sharing there.

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And that's what happened

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here. We were up I think we were

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up on Prince Edward Island Mhmm. With all

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these folks up in the Canadian Maritimes, and

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we were all hanging out around the campfire

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having a great time. Somebody did and says,

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well, I did this once. And they said,

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oh, yeah. Well, I did this. And, yes,

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I even share my own, but it was,

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it was very educational. It was also pretty

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funny.

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In in retrospect, a lot of mistakes are

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pretty funny,

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but they're also very educational. So, take a

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listen to the,

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conversation of the week about whether RV horror

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stories,

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but let's see what we can all learn

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from them.

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I was in Syracuse. I'm driving home, and

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all of a sudden,

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my GPS is taking me down one finger

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and up the next finger leg. And then

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down one finger leg

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and up the next finger. I said, what

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that?

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Why can't I go home on the throughway

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the way I came?

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This is gonna take forever.

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I finally figured out that I had accidentally

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set my GPS to bike

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instead of car.

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Thanks. Don't be there.

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So Sherry and I had just started work

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camping. We were working in a 5 star

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luxury resort. This place was 1st class.

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Most of the rigs were a $1,000,000 up.

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They had to buy their lots and very

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nice. So we wanted to impress

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some of our our coworkers and some of

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the people we had met,

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and a buddy and I had been out

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and caught a whole bunch of crappie, so

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we were having a fish fry.

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And, of course, we're getting ready and Sherry

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said, oh, you need to dump the black

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tank. It's full. Oh, Jesus.

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So I was dumping the black tank. Well,

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of course, somebody shows up early

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and gets talking to me, and I had

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turned on the flush.

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And I got busy and forgot all about

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it.

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Next thing I know, we're standing outside and

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this is Florida, So the air conditioner's on

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full blast, and it's constantly dripping off the

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edge of the roof.

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All at once, it just starts pouring out.

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I'm like, man, it's not that humid. Why

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is that water just running out of there?

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About that time, Sherry comes flying out of

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the RV. Tim, you forgot the black tank.

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So it had flooded

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just a little bit in the bathroom, but

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most of it went out the top of

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the vent stack and was running off of

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the roof.

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Of course, now several of our good friends

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at this place we're trying to impress are

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here watching.

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Everybody got a great laugh out of that.

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This tool here is going to help me

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because I still have a Cirrus truck camper

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sitting here tonight.

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Because we were just cooking a can of

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soup, heating it up on on the propane

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stove, which has a glass

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top.

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And I had taken the soup and poured

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it off, and I thought I had turned

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it off, but I had turned it to

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low. It's the other way. So it had

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gone so you couldn't barely see it.

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So Raj

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closes the lid, or maybe I did, and

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he's doing dishes.

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And we have a absorbent

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dish mat. Dish mat. Dish mat. He put

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that on top, and he puts the frying

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pan on top, and all of a sudden,

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smoke is coming everywhere.

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We now have a

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beautiful c of

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the letter c from a frying pan of

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red foam stuck on our glass

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countertop,

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which Goobie Gone did not take off and

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so which let me the razor blade to

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see if I could scrape off. So if

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you've ever done that,

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ever put your lid down and it was

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too hot,

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let me know how you cleaned off your

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glass top.

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The only early on in our

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RV adventures,

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we were kinda out just doing,

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short trips, 2, 3 day trips. And so

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we're in a state park in Texas, parked

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close to,

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another couple, and they had been real helpful.

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We've been chatting back and forth with them.

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Well, we were,

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I was kinda climbing around. Susan had been

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worried about mice getting in.

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And so we we saw something on YouTube

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that somebody had said, oh, well, you've gotta

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look at where the gray tank goes up

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in. There's a there's it's open up there.

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You gotta put foam in that to foam

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it up. So I bought some of that

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expanding

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polyurethane foam,

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and so I figured I'd put that in

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there.

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And so I crawled down underneath the RV

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and I'm laying on my back

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and I've got my foam

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container out

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and

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she's already shaking her. And so I I

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shoved the nozzle up in there and I'm

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blowing foam up in, you know. I'm thinking

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it goes in and expands and gets hard,

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you know. This is gonna work great. So

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I'm I'm putting it in there. I can't

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really see where it's going, but it's going

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up there somewhere.

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And then

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what happened was this big glop of foam

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comes down and goes plop on the ground

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right beside me. So I thought, well, that's

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a waste. So I grabbed onto it, and

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I'm shoving the foam back up in there.

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And Susan says, do you want me to

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help? And so I said, no. No. I

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got it. And so I I finished up,

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and so I got out, and I got

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foam all over my hands. Right? And it

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I'm rubbing it, and it's it's not coming

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off. And I'm thinking, how do you get

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this stuff off? So I'm looking at the

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the so I went inside

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and,

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ran my hands under soap and water. I

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figured that'll work.

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No. That won't come off. So then I

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read on the

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bottle what you're supposed to do, and I

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got as far as saying, well, you're supposed

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to use nail polish remover. Yeah.

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So you're getting nail polish remover. No. Don't

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have any nail polish. So I'm talking this

355
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by now, then my neighbor comes over and

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he wants to know what I'm up to.

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And so I'm telling him what I'm doing.

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He said, oh, I don't know about that.

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And

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so then they go off someplace. Well, I

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find out later on that that,

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I don't know if you know what's in

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that expanding

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foam.

365
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It's super glue, basically. Oh. It's the same

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stuff.

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It does not come off. The way you

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cure it

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and get it to set is you get

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it wet.

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It'll come off with toluene,

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but only

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right away.

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Later on, it doesn't come off. So how

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do you get it off?

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Who's the The humidity for You don't. It

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never comes

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off. It doesn't. The skin has to come

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off. I've already seen the skin peel off.

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I peeled

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foam.

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It was like my hand was inside of

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a plastic glove.

384
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And I peeled that stuff off for weeks

385
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afterwards.

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I don't know if there's any mice getting

387
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in there, but they they're welcome to it.

388
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I'm not going back down under there to

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do that again.

390
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The stories you guys have told have had

391
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some humor to it. I didn't find this

392
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funny at all when it happened

393
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to me. But we were trying to park.

394
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We just arrived at

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a campsite

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and it was raining.

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And we were relatively new. I'm pulling the

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5th wheel.

399
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The roads are kinda small and tight and

400
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the campground was pretty full. And there was

401
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a camper,

402
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trailer

403
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hooked to a Ford F150

404
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pickup

405
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that was out on an edge

406
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campsite.

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And the road,

408
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the way they have it set up at

409
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this campsite, you go it's directional like most

410
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places.

411
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So you go in front where you check-in

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and you make a curve around. Well, I

413
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had done that. She checked us in and

414
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I was coming around, and a person was

415
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going the wrong way, pulling the camper in

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the rain.

417
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So I wanted to be a nice guy,

418
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so I stopped. And I was hoping that

419
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they would move on up and move around

420
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and get out of my way. But it

421
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was raining, and they chose not to do

422
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that.

423
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So I said, alright. I will squeeze through

424
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there.

425
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So

426
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I was relatively new to pulling that 5th

427
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wheel and it kinda gets off to one

428
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side when you make a sharp corner.

429
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And I did that,

430
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and I I was moving along. I cleared

431
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the person that was in my way, and

432
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I felt

433
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like I hit a bump or something. I

434
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wasn't sure what it was. So I kept

435
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trucking and moving down,

436
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and I dragged my camper across the front

437
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of that f 150

438
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and moved it was hooked to their camper,

439
00:15:26,899 --> 00:15:28,679
and they were in their camper.

440
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I moved the front of that f 150

441
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probably 6 or 8 feet

442
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from where it was at there off the

443
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corner,

444
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and then I just went down and parked.

445
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It was like a hit and run through

446
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the campground. I didn't know what else to

447
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do.

448
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They were not happy about me disturbing

449
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their sleep or whatever they were doing in

450
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there.

451
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Oh my god. Oh my god.

452
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We'd ordered our camper, went up to pick

453
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it up in January or February, wasn't it?

454
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February.

455
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February.

456
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And so we drove back to Lafayette, Indiana

457
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and had liquid springs put on it. So

458
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they were gonna keep it a few days,

459
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went home, came back, got the camper, started

460
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down a 2 lane road,

461
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and got some speed built up. And then

462
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I don't know if you put your foot

463
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on the brake or No. It just It's

464
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all over. Bouncing bouncing. Anyway, the hood of

465
00:16:20,089 --> 00:16:20,570
our,

466
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engine

467
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went forward. So you couldn't see anything.

468
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Anything at all. It popped up. Popped up.

469
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It wasn't latched. Wasn't latched from Springs. So

470
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there was no shoulder, no place to pull

471
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off on this 2 lane road. So he

472
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looked in the rearview mirror, says, I think

473
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I can get out. Well, the time he

474
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got out, there was a school bus coming

475
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the other way. And so luckily, he got

476
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out in time and got it latched down.

477
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We got home safely. But it was a

478
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scary

479
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few minutes.

480
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All of my really big RV problems come

481
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when I'm hitching

482
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up or unhitching.

483
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And almost all of them start because somebody

484
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comes and talks to me while I'm doing

485
00:17:00,714 --> 00:17:01,214
that,

486
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which is really the rudest thing you can

487
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do to an RVer, because if you don't

488
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do things right, you're gonna forget something.

489
00:17:08,954 --> 00:17:11,194
So we're at the we had just bought

490
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our Montana,

491
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and we are at the Montana owners rally.

492
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And the Montana

493
00:17:16,930 --> 00:17:18,470
people, you know, they are

494
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all Montana owners. They're all experts in this.

495
00:17:21,730 --> 00:17:23,430
This is my first trip out.

496
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And I'm I'm coming in, and I'm hooking

497
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it up, and all these guys are standing

498
00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:29,884
around with the beer and they're hanging, uh-huh.

499
00:17:29,945 --> 00:17:31,545
Let's see how he does back in this

500
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thing.

501
00:17:32,345 --> 00:17:34,105
So I I got it in, and I'm

502
00:17:34,105 --> 00:17:35,644
hooking it, unhooking it,

503
00:17:35,945 --> 00:17:37,865
and people come up and start talking to

504
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me. Oh, we hear you about a Montana,

505
00:17:39,465 --> 00:17:40,365
and it's great.

506
00:17:41,144 --> 00:17:42,765
And I forgot

507
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to basically,

508
00:17:46,029 --> 00:17:46,929
put the tail

509
00:17:47,869 --> 00:17:49,490
on the truck down.

510
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And when I pulled away,

511
00:17:52,829 --> 00:17:55,789
the jacks had not had been pulled up

512
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a little bit, and the whole thing went

513
00:17:58,865 --> 00:17:59,365
kaboom,

514
00:17:59,825 --> 00:18:01,764
but the jacks caught it. It saved

515
00:18:02,224 --> 00:18:03,524
that much room.

516
00:18:04,065 --> 00:18:05,825
And they all were looking at me and

517
00:18:05,825 --> 00:18:07,524
watching this go and they're all going,

518
00:18:08,784 --> 00:18:09,764
you know, like this.

519
00:18:10,144 --> 00:18:11,849
And I heard one guy said,

520
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well, he'll learn that lesson.

521
00:18:15,450 --> 00:18:16,349
And I did.

522
00:18:16,650 --> 00:18:18,109
Don't talk to anybody

523
00:18:18,809 --> 00:18:21,529
when you are unhooking or hooking up if

524
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you have a tow of them. Don't talk

525
00:18:23,369 --> 00:18:26,404
to them. And, don't feel bad about being

526
00:18:26,404 --> 00:18:27,224
rude because

527
00:18:27,605 --> 00:18:29,044
they're the ones that are rude because they

528
00:18:29,044 --> 00:18:31,765
get you off track. I've got another black

529
00:18:31,765 --> 00:18:34,105
tank story. It's the first time I'm out

530
00:18:34,484 --> 00:18:36,484
and I'm gonna empty the black tank. I've

531
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had a harvest host or or a a

532
00:18:38,484 --> 00:18:38,984
boondockers

533
00:18:39,329 --> 00:18:40,950
welcome, never been in one before.

534
00:18:41,329 --> 00:18:43,269
And on the way out, the fella says,

535
00:18:43,490 --> 00:18:45,169
you know, we can empty that tank right

536
00:18:45,169 --> 00:18:47,029
here because I had never done it before.

537
00:18:47,569 --> 00:18:49,250
I said, yeah, I guess so. I'll pull

538
00:18:49,250 --> 00:18:51,250
right over here, we'll hook it right up

539
00:18:51,250 --> 00:18:51,674
and

540
00:18:52,315 --> 00:18:53,615
everything will be good.

541
00:18:53,994 --> 00:18:54,494
So

542
00:18:54,795 --> 00:18:57,355
this ties into what Mike says. He decides

543
00:18:57,355 --> 00:18:58,875
to stand there and talk to me while

544
00:18:58,875 --> 00:18:59,775
I'm doing it.

545
00:19:00,715 --> 00:19:02,335
And I've never done it before.

546
00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:05,340
And I've gotten all the advice from

547
00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,660
watching RV lifestyle and

548
00:19:08,039 --> 00:19:10,119
the fact that these things are pretty easy

549
00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,119
to use and they work pretty well. So

550
00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,380
I'm I've got it out. I'm pretty confident.

551
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,619
I'm gonna hook it up right over here.

552
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:17,240
And,

553
00:19:18,585 --> 00:19:20,284
again, the fella's watching me.

554
00:19:20,585 --> 00:19:22,345
I'm getting a little nervous about it. What's

555
00:19:22,345 --> 00:19:24,904
gonna happen, not having done it. So I

556
00:19:24,904 --> 00:19:27,065
got it all set to go. I turned

557
00:19:27,065 --> 00:19:27,724
it on,

558
00:19:28,105 --> 00:19:30,390
and I see this snake coming out, which

559
00:19:30,470 --> 00:19:32,150
it kinda that's kinda how it works. It

560
00:19:32,150 --> 00:19:34,490
was getting bigger and bigger. The hose.

561
00:19:35,029 --> 00:19:36,089
The hose. Yes.

562
00:19:36,470 --> 00:19:36,789
And,

563
00:19:37,670 --> 00:19:39,349
it it suddenly dawned on me. I hadn't

564
00:19:39,349 --> 00:19:41,369
take the cap on the end off.

565
00:19:44,384 --> 00:19:46,384
And maybe one of the worst part is

566
00:19:46,384 --> 00:19:48,484
I know someday I'm gonna do it again.

567
00:19:50,224 --> 00:19:53,044
So that happened. So somebody I know

568
00:19:53,664 --> 00:19:55,980
did the same thing Yeah. At one of

569
00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:58,559
our own rallies last year. And,

570
00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:01,579
that cap is under pressure now because you

571
00:20:01,579 --> 00:20:03,019
turned it on. The cap is under a

572
00:20:03,019 --> 00:20:05,019
great deal of pressure. You take the cap

573
00:20:05,019 --> 00:20:07,515
off, what happens? So I'm there, and I'm

574
00:20:07,515 --> 00:20:08,015
I'm

575
00:20:08,795 --> 00:20:11,115
got a lot of trepidation about taking this

576
00:20:11,115 --> 00:20:13,515
cap off. I I I see the hose

577
00:20:13,515 --> 00:20:15,434
is twice as big as it used to

578
00:20:15,434 --> 00:20:16,734
be in diameter.

579
00:20:17,035 --> 00:20:19,775
And that means it's filled with stuff. Stuff.

580
00:20:19,890 --> 00:20:20,390
With

581
00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:23,730
foam. In fact, I learned from now, from

582
00:20:23,730 --> 00:20:26,210
that point forward or or a similar point

583
00:20:26,210 --> 00:20:29,170
forward, I'm gonna do the gray tank first

584
00:20:29,170 --> 00:20:31,970
and make sure everything is just great before

585
00:20:31,970 --> 00:20:32,470
I

586
00:20:32,849 --> 00:20:35,404
do the other one. So anyway, I'm there.

587
00:20:35,404 --> 00:20:37,964
I'm going, okay. I take it back out.

588
00:20:37,964 --> 00:20:40,125
I got the cap. I go, oh, man.

589
00:20:40,125 --> 00:20:41,184
What's going on?

590
00:20:42,444 --> 00:20:45,164
And he's still standing there. So yeah. And,

591
00:20:45,804 --> 00:20:47,244
I didn't make too much of a mess.

592
00:20:47,244 --> 00:20:47,730
The cap

593
00:20:48,690 --> 00:20:51,269
explosively came off and went down the pipe.

594
00:20:52,369 --> 00:20:54,929
And, I was kinda hoping that no one

595
00:20:54,929 --> 00:20:57,009
other than the fellow watching me had seen

596
00:20:57,009 --> 00:21:00,210
it and, hoping I weren't gonna do it

597
00:21:00,210 --> 00:21:00,704
again.

598
00:21:01,825 --> 00:21:03,505
And he and he felt sorry, and he

599
00:21:03,505 --> 00:21:05,345
gave me a red cap to put back

600
00:21:05,345 --> 00:21:07,345
on there. So I still have the red

601
00:21:07,345 --> 00:21:08,244
caps that

602
00:21:08,625 --> 00:21:11,024
sort of reminds me about it. And I

603
00:21:11,024 --> 00:21:13,265
also have labels all over the place that

604
00:21:13,265 --> 00:21:15,289
says take cap off. Take cap

605
00:21:16,309 --> 00:21:17,769
off. Do great tank first.

606
00:21:18,309 --> 00:21:20,150
Do great tank at least a little bit.

607
00:21:20,150 --> 00:21:22,309
Get everything going good, and,

608
00:21:23,029 --> 00:21:24,650
life will be a lot better.

609
00:21:25,750 --> 00:21:28,470
This is not embarrassing for me quite as

610
00:21:28,470 --> 00:21:30,484
much as it was for the other person,

611
00:21:30,484 --> 00:21:33,444
but we had our small camper van, and

612
00:21:33,444 --> 00:21:36,424
the sandhill cranes nest in Northern Indiana

613
00:21:36,724 --> 00:21:38,184
on their way back to Florida.

614
00:21:38,565 --> 00:21:40,244
So we'd gone up there and,

615
00:21:41,285 --> 00:21:43,049
got in late at night because we watched

616
00:21:43,049 --> 00:21:45,712
the cranes. It was dark. I had to

617
00:21:45,712 --> 00:21:48,375
use the restroom really badly. So, while Dave

618
00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:51,037
was registering us, I go to the women's

619
00:21:51,037 --> 00:21:53,700
restroom. It's also hunting season. I open the

620
00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,362
door and there's a naked man standing there

621
00:21:56,362 --> 00:21:59,025
right in front of me. And he looked

622
00:21:59,025 --> 00:22:00,545
at me, and I looked at him, and

623
00:22:00,545 --> 00:22:02,325
shut the door, and ran out.

624
00:22:03,424 --> 00:22:04,244
So always

625
00:22:04,625 --> 00:22:07,045
be aware of where you're taking your showers.

626
00:22:08,545 --> 00:22:11,025
I had an f 250 crew cab with

627
00:22:11,025 --> 00:22:11,525
a

628
00:22:12,144 --> 00:22:14,849
38 foot 5th wheel. We pulled in the

629
00:22:14,849 --> 00:22:17,750
West Virginia campground not far from the

630
00:22:18,130 --> 00:22:19,670
state fairgrounds for

631
00:22:20,049 --> 00:22:21,509
the state fair show.

632
00:22:21,970 --> 00:22:23,250
And there was a guy that had a

633
00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:25,910
pickup truck that was sticking out a little

634
00:22:26,049 --> 00:22:28,285
bit further than I thought it was.

635
00:22:28,664 --> 00:22:30,345
So I said to Holly, oh, just pull

636
00:22:30,345 --> 00:22:32,444
the pin on the 5th wheel so it,

637
00:22:33,304 --> 00:22:34,285
does the extension.

638
00:22:34,825 --> 00:22:36,744
Well, I didn't pull it far enough. So

639
00:22:36,744 --> 00:22:39,224
when I started backing in, it cruncled the

640
00:22:39,224 --> 00:22:41,005
back of my cab on my truck

641
00:22:41,464 --> 00:22:44,000
on the back corner. So and poked a

642
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,140
little hole in the fiberglass

643
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:46,180
on

644
00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:48,240
the cab of the 5th wheel. So And

645
00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:49,539
Oh.

646
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,859
You didn't wanna be there.

647
00:22:54,559 --> 00:22:55,059
Yeah.

648
00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:58,535
He was salty about that for weeks.

649
00:23:00,994 --> 00:23:03,875
This is not, a nightmare horror story. It's

650
00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:06,755
just a that's a camping story. It was

651
00:23:06,755 --> 00:23:08,755
fall a couple of years ago, and we

652
00:23:08,755 --> 00:23:11,150
were going to, park in Georgia where Jack's

653
00:23:11,150 --> 00:23:12,910
sister was gonna go with her new camper.

654
00:23:12,910 --> 00:23:14,430
They bailed at the last minute, so we

655
00:23:14,430 --> 00:23:17,309
went on our own. Beautiful park. Former Army

656
00:23:17,309 --> 00:23:19,549
Corps of Engineers Park. It's now a county

657
00:23:19,549 --> 00:23:20,529
park and,

658
00:23:21,069 --> 00:23:22,210
right on the water,

659
00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:25,375
on a lake, and it's fall, and the

660
00:23:25,375 --> 00:23:27,214
leaves are changing. We have this big, nice,

661
00:23:27,214 --> 00:23:29,774
lovely, wooded lot, and it's just beautiful. The

662
00:23:29,774 --> 00:23:32,515
leaves are falling, all these oak trees around.

663
00:23:32,894 --> 00:23:34,494
And what did not occur to us, as

664
00:23:34,494 --> 00:23:36,274
charming as we thought all of this was,

665
00:23:36,335 --> 00:23:38,789
is that the acorns do not stop falling

666
00:23:38,789 --> 00:23:41,370
just because it's quiet hours. And so they're

667
00:23:41,430 --> 00:23:43,690
falling all night onto our camper

668
00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:45,130
with great velocity

669
00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:45,910
and,

670
00:23:46,710 --> 00:23:49,269
and, forward motion and just, you know, waking

671
00:23:49,269 --> 00:23:51,384
us up every single time they hit our

672
00:23:51,384 --> 00:23:51,884
camper.

673
00:23:52,744 --> 00:23:55,625
And so then, the wind stopped and we,

674
00:23:56,585 --> 00:23:58,265
we're there for one more night and we

675
00:23:58,265 --> 00:24:01,085
had forgotten about the acorns. Right. And so

676
00:24:01,464 --> 00:24:03,305
we, packed up. We're getting ready to leave

677
00:24:03,305 --> 00:24:06,265
on Sunday morning. As we drove out, the

678
00:24:06,265 --> 00:24:08,679
first stop sign, I put on the brakes,

679
00:24:08,679 --> 00:24:10,299
and acorns cascaded

680
00:24:10,599 --> 00:24:11,500
over my windshield

681
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,200
all down the windshield. It was like, oh,

682
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:14,700
gee.

683
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:16,940
Well,

684
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,980
we're not alone. Right? Don't make these mistakes.

685
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,625
Yeah. We can all share, and the best

686
00:24:22,625 --> 00:24:24,804
way to handle it is to laugh. Yep.

687
00:24:25,265 --> 00:24:26,244
Alright. Endeler,

688
00:24:27,265 --> 00:24:29,585
social media buzz time now from Wendy Boyer.

689
00:24:29,585 --> 00:24:32,085
Wendy keeps track of, all the hot issues

690
00:24:32,224 --> 00:24:35,044
most talked about on our various social media

691
00:24:35,265 --> 00:24:37,284
and RV lifestyle community groups.

692
00:24:37,850 --> 00:24:40,970
And, she's got some, some pretty interesting topics

693
00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:43,210
that we're getting a lot of buzz this

694
00:24:43,210 --> 00:24:45,070
past week. Hi, everybody.

695
00:24:45,690 --> 00:24:48,670
Over in our RV lifestyle community general discussion

696
00:24:48,730 --> 00:24:51,150
space, we had a recent question from Loretta

697
00:24:51,210 --> 00:24:54,305
about RV covers. Now Loretta and her husband,

698
00:24:54,305 --> 00:24:55,924
they recently purchased a 2024

699
00:24:56,305 --> 00:24:59,025
Grand Design Reflection 5th wheel, and they plan

700
00:24:59,025 --> 00:25:01,345
to be on the road from November through

701
00:25:01,345 --> 00:25:01,845
April.

702
00:25:02,224 --> 00:25:03,825
But the rest of the year, they plan

703
00:25:03,825 --> 00:25:05,984
to keep their rig on their property in

704
00:25:05,984 --> 00:25:06,484
Ohio,

705
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,980
where temperatures can fluctuate between 40 95 degrees

706
00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:12,099
during that time.

707
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,240
They made a cement pad. The cement pad

708
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,240
has some trees and shade over it. They're

709
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,159
thinking of getting a cover, but they wonder,

710
00:25:18,159 --> 00:25:19,220
under these circumstances,

711
00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:20,865
would you recommend it?

712
00:25:21,424 --> 00:25:23,345
Well, lots of great tips here. One was

713
00:25:23,345 --> 00:25:25,265
from Randall. He said that they used to

714
00:25:25,265 --> 00:25:26,944
use the cover, but they found that every

715
00:25:26,944 --> 00:25:28,464
2 to 4 years, they would have to

716
00:25:28,464 --> 00:25:30,005
replace it because of tears.

717
00:25:30,545 --> 00:25:31,525
It costs about $150

718
00:25:31,984 --> 00:25:33,664
a pop to replace it each time, and

719
00:25:33,664 --> 00:25:36,320
so they found building a carport. No. Only

720
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,059
worked better, but made sense financially for them.

721
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,519
Michael, he showed a picture of his travel

722
00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:43,840
trailer all neatly covered and wrapped, and he

723
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,259
said it worked great for the northeastern winters.

724
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,720
But he would be concerned about it being

725
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,940
a mildew trap

726
00:25:50,295 --> 00:25:52,775
during humidity in the summers, which was a

727
00:25:52,775 --> 00:25:55,174
very good thought. And then, Brendan Mark, they

728
00:25:55,174 --> 00:25:56,535
said they used to have a cover, but

729
00:25:56,535 --> 00:25:58,855
they found the wind or tree branches would

730
00:25:58,855 --> 00:26:00,695
rip it. So if Loretta and her husband

731
00:26:00,695 --> 00:26:02,134
end up going with the cover route, make

732
00:26:02,134 --> 00:26:04,059
sure you get one that's thicker so it

733
00:26:04,059 --> 00:26:05,200
will last longer.

734
00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:07,340
So lots of good things there for Loretta

735
00:26:07,340 --> 00:26:08,320
to think about.

736
00:26:08,779 --> 00:26:11,039
And then also in our RV lifestyle community

737
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:12,160
in the travel

738
00:26:12,539 --> 00:26:14,860
trips into our space, we had a post

739
00:26:14,860 --> 00:26:16,220
that was so much fun to read. It

740
00:26:16,220 --> 00:26:17,924
was from r and t, and they wrote,

741
00:26:18,085 --> 00:26:20,325
we just retired, and we're heading out for

742
00:26:20,325 --> 00:26:22,565
an RV trip to the Outer Banks, and

743
00:26:22,565 --> 00:26:25,045
they were just celebrating with the group. So

744
00:26:25,045 --> 00:26:26,585
lots of people were like, congratulations

745
00:26:27,125 --> 00:26:29,205
on your retirement. Have a great time. Way

746
00:26:29,205 --> 00:26:31,460
to go. And then they shared some pictures

747
00:26:31,460 --> 00:26:33,779
of, the 2 of them enjoying themselves, living

748
00:26:33,779 --> 00:26:35,379
their best life. I mean, there they are

749
00:26:35,379 --> 00:26:37,700
parasailing. 1 of them is windsurfing. 1 of

750
00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:39,859
them is with their really cute golden dog

751
00:26:39,859 --> 00:26:40,599
named Tucker.

752
00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:42,980
And these sorts of posts are so much

753
00:26:42,980 --> 00:26:44,359
fun to read and just

754
00:26:44,924 --> 00:26:46,684
builds community, which is what we're trying to

755
00:26:46,684 --> 00:26:49,164
do there in the RV lifestyle community. So

756
00:26:49,164 --> 00:26:49,664
congratulations

757
00:26:49,965 --> 00:26:50,865
on that retirement.

758
00:26:51,725 --> 00:26:53,965
And then over in our Facebook group, we

759
00:26:53,965 --> 00:26:56,365
had a post that got people talking from

760
00:26:56,365 --> 00:26:59,099
Heather. Now Heather had just booked

761
00:26:59,419 --> 00:27:02,619
3 night reservation in Wisconsin State Park for

762
00:27:02,619 --> 00:27:03,759
camping in 2025.

763
00:27:04,460 --> 00:27:06,299
And when she did this, she noticed there

764
00:27:06,299 --> 00:27:09,519
was a new charge, a nonresident charge, $15

765
00:27:09,819 --> 00:27:12,140
a night. And she wondered if anyone else

766
00:27:12,140 --> 00:27:14,325
knew anything about this. Apparently, this new charge

767
00:27:14,325 --> 00:27:16,664
was going into effect January 1, 2025,

768
00:27:17,365 --> 00:27:18,884
and she looked back, and she's never had

769
00:27:18,884 --> 00:27:20,644
to pay that before when she camped at

770
00:27:20,644 --> 00:27:22,105
a Wisconsin State Park.

771
00:27:22,565 --> 00:27:24,644
And she looked, and she's like, you know,

772
00:27:24,644 --> 00:27:26,565
this is adding up. You know? I'm paying

773
00:27:26,565 --> 00:27:27,059
the

774
00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:29,700
fee to camp per night there. I'm paying

775
00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,039
the state park fee. I'm paying the reservation

776
00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,500
fee. And now for 3 nights, there's an

777
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:35,400
extra $45

778
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:37,640
charge because I don't live in Wisconsin.

779
00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:39,960
And so she just wondered what people thought.

780
00:27:40,355 --> 00:27:42,914
And many people chimed in saying, wow. That's

781
00:27:42,914 --> 00:27:44,835
a lot of money. And, of course, more

782
00:27:44,835 --> 00:27:47,555
and more states are getting into this. They're

783
00:27:47,555 --> 00:27:49,795
having this 2 tier price system. We're seeing

784
00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:50,695
it in Oregon.

785
00:27:51,075 --> 00:27:53,234
We're seeing it in Massachusetts. In fact, for

786
00:27:53,234 --> 00:27:53,734
Massachusetts,

787
00:27:54,035 --> 00:27:56,210
Alice said she was recently looking at camping

788
00:27:56,210 --> 00:27:58,210
at a state park there, and the charge

789
00:27:58,210 --> 00:28:00,930
was $17 a night for a Massachusetts state

790
00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:01,430
resident.

791
00:28:01,809 --> 00:28:03,269
Same spot, nonresident.

792
00:28:03,730 --> 00:28:04,950
The charge was $54.

793
00:28:05,809 --> 00:28:07,650
So her family decided not to camp at

794
00:28:07,650 --> 00:28:08,309
that campground,

795
00:28:09,065 --> 00:28:11,464
and people, said the same thing's happening in

796
00:28:11,464 --> 00:28:13,865
Idaho. That's another place where the the fee

797
00:28:13,865 --> 00:28:14,845
is really high.

798
00:28:15,384 --> 00:28:18,025
Several Washington state residents said they no longer

799
00:28:18,025 --> 00:28:19,085
camp at the state

800
00:28:19,464 --> 00:28:22,070
parks in Idaho because of this. Kristen said

801
00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:22,970
it costs $40

802
00:28:23,269 --> 00:28:25,430
a night for the spot if you live

803
00:28:25,430 --> 00:28:26,250
in Idaho

804
00:28:26,549 --> 00:28:27,930
and out of state resident,

805
00:28:28,309 --> 00:28:31,210
same spot, same exact same spot, $80

806
00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:32,730
a night to camp there.

807
00:28:33,109 --> 00:28:34,170
And so

808
00:28:34,534 --> 00:28:36,214
this discussion went back and forth. You know,

809
00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:37,115
some people said

810
00:28:37,494 --> 00:28:39,815
state tax dollars pay for state parks and

811
00:28:39,815 --> 00:28:42,234
state park campgrounds. So it's only fair that

812
00:28:42,294 --> 00:28:44,214
maybe like Florida, you get a head start

813
00:28:44,214 --> 00:28:45,835
on your reservation, or

814
00:28:46,134 --> 00:28:47,654
maybe you pay a little bit more when

815
00:28:47,654 --> 00:28:49,509
you don't live there. But some people were

816
00:28:49,509 --> 00:28:51,849
saying this price difference is so steep.

817
00:28:52,549 --> 00:28:54,630
It's keeping it's gonna be a deterrent, and

818
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:56,890
maybe that's gonna hurt tourism in the area.

819
00:28:57,109 --> 00:28:58,250
So it was interesting.

820
00:28:58,710 --> 00:29:00,710
Wonder what you think. Do you think that

821
00:29:00,710 --> 00:29:03,695
this tube price system is fair? Have you

822
00:29:03,695 --> 00:29:05,075
run into it out there?

823
00:29:06,654 --> 00:29:09,215
Sometimes the difference is really steep. So just

824
00:29:09,215 --> 00:29:11,394
curious what what people's opinions are.

825
00:29:11,695 --> 00:29:13,855
And, that's it for me. I'm Wendy Boyer,

826
00:29:13,855 --> 00:29:15,535
and I'll see you over at the RV

827
00:29:15,535 --> 00:29:17,910
Lifestyle Community or Facebook group.

828
00:29:18,309 --> 00:29:20,410
Woah. There was lots of good sharing.

829
00:29:21,269 --> 00:29:23,509
Lots of things to get the blood flowing

830
00:29:23,509 --> 00:29:26,070
in people. Yeah. What do you think about

831
00:29:26,070 --> 00:29:28,950
this state park issue? State parks giving preferential

832
00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:31,190
treatment to their own residents. I don't like

833
00:29:31,190 --> 00:29:33,444
it, but I think the state parks have

834
00:29:33,444 --> 00:29:34,105
a right

835
00:29:34,644 --> 00:29:36,585
to do that if they want to

836
00:29:36,964 --> 00:29:39,525
because you know there's not enough places to

837
00:29:39,525 --> 00:29:40,025
camp.

838
00:29:40,804 --> 00:29:42,724
And I can see why there a lot

839
00:29:42,724 --> 00:29:45,140
of people get set. Well, all these people

840
00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:46,420
from out of state, I mean, it's a

841
00:29:46,420 --> 00:29:48,980
slippery slope because all the states are gonna

842
00:29:48,980 --> 00:29:50,119
end up doing this.

843
00:29:50,660 --> 00:29:53,000
And as far as those who say, well,

844
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,275
I'm just not gonna go there. Well, I

845
00:29:56,275 --> 00:29:58,295
don't think anybody's gonna miss you because

846
00:29:58,674 --> 00:30:01,075
it fills up. These that's half the problem.

847
00:30:01,075 --> 00:30:03,474
They fill up. So they're raising the prices.

848
00:30:03,474 --> 00:30:05,315
They hope to make a little extra money

849
00:30:05,315 --> 00:30:06,134
on it. But

850
00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:09,059
I wonder if all the locals

851
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,880
are gonna fill up the parks. There's gonna

852
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,480
be no room for any of the others

853
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,039
because the locals took advantage of that special

854
00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:15,539
reservation,

855
00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:19,119
break that they get. Don't worry. They'll figure

856
00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:20,180
out a way to

857
00:30:21,035 --> 00:30:22,794
raise the rates for the locals because it

858
00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:24,315
you know, they gotta have the money. There's

859
00:30:24,315 --> 00:30:27,375
so much the expense of running these parks

860
00:30:27,515 --> 00:30:29,674
and then the feedback you get when people

861
00:30:29,674 --> 00:30:31,855
can't camp in their own state because

862
00:30:32,234 --> 00:30:34,154
all these other state people are camping there.

863
00:30:34,154 --> 00:30:35,720
I mean, I don't know what the answer

864
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,700
is other than

865
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:38,140
more parks.

866
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,039
And the state parks handed to them. You

867
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:42,279
know, they they really need to upgrade the

868
00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:43,820
state parks. Most of them

869
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,779
are wholly inadequate in terms of the infrastructure.

870
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:47,500
So,

871
00:30:48,625 --> 00:30:50,304
if they can make a little extra money

872
00:30:50,304 --> 00:30:52,724
or if they have to raise fees to

873
00:30:52,785 --> 00:30:53,285
help

874
00:30:53,744 --> 00:30:56,244
make these parks come up to 2024,

875
00:30:56,865 --> 00:30:58,164
2025 standards,

876
00:30:59,265 --> 00:31:00,704
all the more for it. In fact, I

877
00:31:00,704 --> 00:31:01,204
noticed,

878
00:31:01,819 --> 00:31:03,579
the place where we usually like to go

879
00:31:03,579 --> 00:31:06,059
every winter and camp, the Kwame Nang Falls

880
00:31:06,059 --> 00:31:08,380
State Park in Mhmm. Michigan's Upper Peninsula Yeah.

881
00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:10,940
It's closed again this winter. You're kidding. They

882
00:31:10,940 --> 00:31:13,019
didn't have it done? Well, they had that

883
00:31:13,019 --> 00:31:15,519
done. They did some upgrades to the washrooms

884
00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:17,914
and all of that stuff. But now they're

885
00:31:17,914 --> 00:31:20,714
doing more upgrades to the Hemlock campground where

886
00:31:20,714 --> 00:31:21,375
we camped

887
00:31:21,755 --> 00:31:24,394
and also the the one that's down, the

888
00:31:24,394 --> 00:31:26,095
lower one by the lower falls.

889
00:31:26,555 --> 00:31:29,355
And, so they're close. They're doing more work.

890
00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:30,634
So 2 years in a row, you can't

891
00:31:30,634 --> 00:31:32,075
win or So in other words, if they'd

892
00:31:32,075 --> 00:31:34,200
left it charming with the rustic

893
00:31:34,579 --> 00:31:35,799
Well toilets.

894
00:31:36,259 --> 00:31:38,179
They're trying to make it better. Yeah. Yeah.

895
00:31:38,179 --> 00:31:40,179
But it's taken them, like, 10 years to

896
00:31:40,179 --> 00:31:41,799
do it. That's the way it is

897
00:31:42,339 --> 00:31:44,899
with government work. Right? Well Look at our

898
00:31:44,899 --> 00:31:47,535
roads. We never quite get them right, but

899
00:31:47,535 --> 00:31:49,295
there's a lot. But I feel really bad

900
00:31:49,295 --> 00:31:50,894
because we love winter camping. Now they did

901
00:31:50,894 --> 00:31:52,494
have a couple of spots open last winter,

902
00:31:52,494 --> 00:31:54,494
but it was they they closed a lot

903
00:31:54,494 --> 00:31:55,775
of them. For us to have a gathering

904
00:31:55,775 --> 00:31:57,615
because there just weren't enough. And now so

905
00:31:57,615 --> 00:31:59,934
there's still Yeah. There there's a There's still

906
00:31:59,934 --> 00:32:01,720
fixing. This is all around the country. State

907
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,880
parks are trying to trying to upgrade. So

908
00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:06,039
And We're on your side, state parks. We

909
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:07,720
really are. Yeah. We really are. And, you

910
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,640
know, everybody out there that you don't like

911
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,599
this because the price differentials are just huge

912
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:13,099
sometimes.

913
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:15,240
You don't have to go to a state

914
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,315
park. Okay. Question of the week. And this

915
00:32:18,315 --> 00:32:20,235
first one is is I'm gonna put it

916
00:32:20,235 --> 00:32:22,955
in your wheelhouse. And, this comes from Pamela,

917
00:32:22,955 --> 00:32:25,515
and she says, one of our travel trailer

918
00:32:25,515 --> 00:32:27,215
window blinds got stained

919
00:32:27,595 --> 00:32:28,414
from condensation

920
00:32:29,309 --> 00:32:31,470
in the window. Any suggestions on how to

921
00:32:31,470 --> 00:32:33,809
remove that stain other than replacing

922
00:32:34,190 --> 00:32:35,970
the whole blind from Pamela?

923
00:32:36,589 --> 00:32:37,089
Well,

924
00:32:37,630 --> 00:32:39,630
what seems to work best is it make

925
00:32:39,630 --> 00:32:42,429
a solution of warm water and mild dish

926
00:32:42,429 --> 00:32:43,490
soap or detergent,

927
00:32:44,265 --> 00:32:46,984
and you gently scrub the stain on your

928
00:32:46,984 --> 00:32:49,224
RV blinds with a sponge or a soft

929
00:32:49,224 --> 00:32:49,724
cloth

930
00:32:50,265 --> 00:32:52,184
and, to prep you know, to prevent the

931
00:32:52,184 --> 00:32:53,644
water damage, thoroughly

932
00:32:54,265 --> 00:32:56,744
dry it out. Don't, you know, don't roll

933
00:32:56,744 --> 00:32:58,470
it up when it's wet because then you'll

934
00:32:58,470 --> 00:32:59,529
have more trouble.

935
00:33:00,069 --> 00:33:03,109
Using an abrasive material or harsh chemicals, you

936
00:33:03,109 --> 00:33:05,429
know, they may damage the Savory, take the

937
00:33:05,429 --> 00:33:07,929
color out, give you more grief, then

938
00:33:08,390 --> 00:33:08,890
help.

939
00:33:09,429 --> 00:33:09,750
So,

940
00:33:10,505 --> 00:33:11,005
just

941
00:33:11,305 --> 00:33:13,404
slow and gentle and dry and

942
00:33:14,424 --> 00:33:15,884
maybe use a dehumidifier.

943
00:33:16,265 --> 00:33:18,105
They have little dehumidifiers you could put in.

944
00:33:18,105 --> 00:33:20,184
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And try to

945
00:33:20,184 --> 00:33:22,345
prevent all that condensation, but you do get

946
00:33:22,345 --> 00:33:24,345
it. In warm weather, you know, your air

947
00:33:24,345 --> 00:33:27,369
conditioner will help lower the humidity inside of

948
00:33:27,369 --> 00:33:29,450
it. So it's a reason to run it,

949
00:33:29,450 --> 00:33:31,450
actually. Mhmm. First thing on air before it

950
00:33:31,450 --> 00:33:32,809
cools it off is it gets all that

951
00:33:32,809 --> 00:33:34,029
humidity out. So

952
00:33:34,410 --> 00:33:36,589
alright. Now question number 2.

953
00:33:36,890 --> 00:33:39,049
I keep hearing people talk about needing to

954
00:33:39,049 --> 00:33:41,524
have a soft start for their RV. What

955
00:33:41,524 --> 00:33:43,765
is it, and do I really need it?

956
00:33:43,765 --> 00:33:45,444
And this is from Jim. Well, Jim, we

957
00:33:45,444 --> 00:33:46,184
don't know

958
00:33:46,884 --> 00:33:49,144
what kind of an RV you have or

959
00:33:49,365 --> 00:33:51,684
how often you use it or how you

960
00:33:51,684 --> 00:33:54,724
use it, but many new RVs have soft

961
00:33:54,724 --> 00:33:57,460
start built into them. And so you first

962
00:33:57,460 --> 00:33:59,079
wanna check and see if you already have

963
00:33:59,299 --> 00:34:01,380
it. But most of the RVs on the

964
00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:01,880
road,

965
00:34:02,419 --> 00:34:04,740
don't, and you can get it as an

966
00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:07,299
option. We like to use a product called

967
00:34:07,299 --> 00:34:08,599
soft start up.

968
00:34:09,014 --> 00:34:10,454
It's so simple. You don't have to climb

969
00:34:10,454 --> 00:34:11,894
up on the roof or anything. You just

970
00:34:11,894 --> 00:34:14,135
plug it into the pedestal or your power

971
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:14,635
source.

972
00:34:15,174 --> 00:34:16,234
And what it does

973
00:34:16,534 --> 00:34:19,734
is it lowers that spike of energy. When

974
00:34:19,734 --> 00:34:22,299
your air conditioner first starts up, there's this

975
00:34:22,299 --> 00:34:24,940
massive spike when the compressor turns on, and

976
00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:27,420
it drops that down, and then it runs

977
00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:30,000
steady. So you can actually run

978
00:34:30,380 --> 00:34:32,400
2 air conditioners on 30 amps,

979
00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:36,059
because you don't have 2 of them spiking

980
00:34:36,059 --> 00:34:36,960
up like that.

981
00:34:37,324 --> 00:34:39,424
Or if you wanna run maybe your microwave

982
00:34:39,484 --> 00:34:41,264
and one air conditioner on,

983
00:34:41,565 --> 00:34:44,204
30 amps, it'll again, it's it's dropping that

984
00:34:44,204 --> 00:34:46,384
spike that the air conditioner causes.

985
00:34:47,005 --> 00:34:49,085
So it it all depends on how you

986
00:34:49,085 --> 00:34:50,924
use your RV. If you're always plugged into

987
00:34:50,924 --> 00:34:51,585
a campground,

988
00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:52,699
you know,

989
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,359
you don't have to worry. But if you

990
00:34:54,359 --> 00:34:55,500
have 2 ACs

991
00:34:56,039 --> 00:34:57,400
and you do a lot of camping, like,

992
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,239
we just were up in the Canadian Maritimes

993
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,340
with our 5th wheel, which has 2 ACs,

994
00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:03,735
and that's a 50 amp unit.

995
00:35:04,695 --> 00:35:05,195
So

996
00:35:05,735 --> 00:35:08,715
of the 9 campgrounds that we were in,

997
00:35:09,575 --> 00:35:11,735
only a couple of them had 50 amp

998
00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:12,235
service,

999
00:35:12,535 --> 00:35:15,255
which normally would mean that I could only

1000
00:35:15,255 --> 00:35:16,555
run 1 air conditioner,

1001
00:35:17,095 --> 00:35:18,474
instead of both of them.

1002
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,880
But with soft start up, I can run

1003
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,139
both of them on 30 amps.

1004
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,800
And it's so nice to have that that,

1005
00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:29,059
because it was really hot out there.

1006
00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:32,340
If you mooch stock at friend's house

1007
00:35:32,704 --> 00:35:34,545
and, whether you have a 30 amp or

1008
00:35:34,545 --> 00:35:35,605
whatever you have,

1009
00:35:36,224 --> 00:35:37,364
for your your,

1010
00:35:37,824 --> 00:35:38,324
RV,

1011
00:35:39,264 --> 00:35:41,905
you can plug in to their say they

1012
00:35:41,905 --> 00:35:43,425
have a plug in the garage, a 20

1013
00:35:43,425 --> 00:35:45,925
amp household plug in the garage or

1014
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,239
run an extension cord out the back or

1015
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,539
whatever it is of the house,

1016
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,860
you can run your air conditioner,

1017
00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:55,440
with that small amount of household power because

1018
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,260
it drops

1019
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,860
the demand, the AC, when it starts up,

1020
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:01,059
causes.

1021
00:36:02,175 --> 00:36:04,575
If you're a boondocker and you might have

1022
00:36:04,575 --> 00:36:06,355
a 2,000 watt generator

1023
00:36:06,974 --> 00:36:09,135
and that on its own can't give you

1024
00:36:09,135 --> 00:36:10,594
enough power to run the AC,

1025
00:36:11,215 --> 00:36:13,454
if you use soft start up, it will

1026
00:36:13,454 --> 00:36:16,094
allow you to run your AC on just

1027
00:36:16,094 --> 00:36:17,190
a 2,000 watt,

1028
00:36:17,829 --> 00:36:18,329
generator.

1029
00:36:18,789 --> 00:36:20,489
So it's a really good thing to have.

1030
00:36:21,269 --> 00:36:23,030
We can save you some money on it

1031
00:36:23,030 --> 00:36:24,230
because we are,

1032
00:36:24,630 --> 00:36:26,409
big fans of soft start up.

1033
00:36:26,710 --> 00:36:29,210
And if you go to this address,

1034
00:36:29,670 --> 00:36:31,664
you'll see you got yourself a pretty good

1035
00:36:31,664 --> 00:36:33,605
discount, and you can learn more about it.

1036
00:36:34,144 --> 00:36:34,965
Just go

1037
00:36:35,344 --> 00:36:35,925
to softstartup.com/rvlifestyle.

1038
00:36:39,425 --> 00:36:39,925
Softstartup.com/rvlifestyle.

1039
00:36:42,945 --> 00:36:44,739
It is a really great thing that we

1040
00:36:44,739 --> 00:36:45,239
recommend,

1041
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:48,980
for all RVers. It really is great. Thank

1042
00:36:48,980 --> 00:36:50,820
goodness that many of the manufacturers are making

1043
00:36:50,820 --> 00:36:54,039
it standard now. So but, until it is,

1044
00:36:54,099 --> 00:36:55,780
soft startup will work. It comes in a

1045
00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:57,219
30 amp version for those of you who

1046
00:36:57,219 --> 00:36:58,900
have 30 amp RVs. It comes in a

1047
00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:00,944
50 amp for those of you with 50

1048
00:37:00,944 --> 00:37:02,804
amp RVs. So check them out.

1049
00:37:03,344 --> 00:37:05,664
Alright. That's it for this week. We love

1050
00:37:05,664 --> 00:37:07,664
your questions. We love your comments. And you

1051
00:37:07,664 --> 00:37:09,364
can reach us anytime at mikeandjen@rvlifestyle.com.

1052
00:37:12,625 --> 00:37:13,525
Happy trails.