RV Industry Tariff Chaos, A Family Burned Out of Their RV, & We Built a Tool You've Been Waiting For

News podcast Marc 23, 2025

Good morning, and welcome to the RV Lifestyle Podcast News Edition for Monday, March 23, 2026. I'm Mike Wendland - journalist, RVer, and your guy on the road every week with the stories that actually matter to RVers.

Before we get into today's news, I want to give you a quick heads-up about something brand new we just launched: the RV Lifestyle Trip Dashboard. This is a tool we've been building for you - a one-stop planning hub designed specifically for RVers. We're going to have a lot more detail about it later in today's episode, but I want you to keep it in the back of your mind as we go through the show. This one is a game-changer. More coming up.

Now - let's get to the news.

This is the show where I dig through the week's top stories on RV travel, campgrounds, the outdoors, and the industry itself, and I bring them to you straight - no spin, no cheerleading, just the facts and what they mean for your life on the road. Thirty-plus years as a journalist, fifteen years living full-time in an RV. That's the lens I look through every week, right here on the longest-running RV lifestyle podcast out there. Find everything we do at RVPodcast.com.

All right. Let's roll.

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1) TARIFF CHAOS: THE RV INDUSTRY DIDN'T CREATE THIS MESS - BUT YOU'LL PAY FOR IT

Look, I've spent years on this show calling out the RV industry for sloppy construction, for overpriced rigs, for quality control that too often falls short of what people are paying. And I'll get back to that - don't worry. But today I want to tell you about something that is genuinely not their fault. And that is going to cost you money anyway.

Let me start with a piece of wood.

Thin, lightweight tropical plywood called lauan. You've probably never thought about it. But it has been inside the walls, the floors, and the ceilings of American RVs since the 1970s. It is one of the foundational building materials of this entire industry. And what has happened to it over the last several months is one of the most staggering examples of government-created chaos I have covered in thirty-plus years of journalism.

I'm going to use lauan as our way into a much bigger story. Because what's happening to this one piece of plywood is happening, in different ways and at different speeds, to almost every material that goes into building your RV. Steel. Aluminum. Composites. Components. All of it. And all of it lands, eventually, on the sticker price of your next rig.

So. Lauan.

The RV industry has been using it since the 1970s, prized for its thin construction, its strength, and the fact that you can bend it into interior contours - it's how manufacturers build something other than just a square box. It grows primarily in Indonesia. There is no domestic substitute. The industry has had no choice but to keep sourcing it there.

That last part matters. Hold onto it.

Here is a condensed version of what Washington has done to this one material since last fall. I'm going to run through the timeline, because the pace of the changes is itself the story.

Last October, the Trump administration imposed new reciprocal tariffs on Indonesian goods. Lauan got caught in the blast radius, and the RV industry suddenly faced a 19% tariff stacked on top of the existing duty, pushing the total rate to 27%. Before all of this started, the industry was paying roughly one million dollars a month in lauan tariffs. That 27% rate tripled those monthly costs - to more than three million dollars. Annualized, that's over forty million dollars a year. For this one material.

Then in January, the Commerce Department launched a separate countervailing duty investigation into Indonesian plywood. Lauan got swept into that too. Commerce found that Indonesian producers were receiving government subsidies, and set a preliminary additional duty rate of 43%.

Then in February came a moment of relief. Briefly. President Trump and the Indonesian president signed a bilateral trade agreement. Under that deal, lauan would receive zero reciprocal duty. Zero. The industry exhaled.

For about five days.

The announcement of a new global tariff rate superseded that short-lived victory. Lauan was not on either protective annex, so it got hit by the new global tariff anyway. The deal Indonesia had negotiated was, essentially, overridden before the ink was dry.

And all the while, that separate Commerce Department investigation kept moving on its own track. In late February, Commerce added a preliminary antidumping duty of 38.3% on top of that earlier 43% finding - for a combined preliminary rate of 81.48%. That full rate is expected to hit in the first week of July. And when the industry asked Commerce for an exemption on the grounds that lauan simply isn't available anywhere else, Commerce said, in effect: not our problem. There is no requirement to exclude a product from investigation simply because it is not available domestically.

Read that again. "Not available domestically" doesn't qualify you for an exemption. Even when there is no American lauan. Even when there is no factory in Indiana that makes a substitute. Sorry, not our problem.

Now - here is where the story gets interesting.

Because some manufacturers have been quietly asking a question that this tariff chaos has pushed to the front of the line: what if we just stop using lauan altogether?

A product called Azdel - made by Hanwha Azdel in Forest, Virginia - has been on the market since 2006. It's a composite panel made from a blend of polypropylene and fiberglass. It's moisture resistant, stronger than wood, and carries three times the insulation value at half the weight of traditional plywood. Some manufacturers have been using it for years. The tariff mess is accelerating those conversations across the whole industry.

An Elkhart-based company called Polser recently announced a composite flooring product called Polfloor - a fiberglass-reinforced panel designed specifically as a wood replacement for RV floors. The company said directly that the cost and environmental pressure on natural wood in RV construction is now driving real demand for alternatives.

Coosa composite panels - high-density polyurethane foam reinforced with fiberglass - are available as a replacement for both floors and walls, at half the weight and double the insulation value of traditional plywood.

And some builders are going further than panels. The 2026 Safari Condo Alto is built with aluminum framing, a plastic honeycomb core bonded to aluminum skin, and an exterior composite material. There is not an ounce of plywood anywhere in the rig. A growing number of startup manufacturers are making the same move, borrowing construction ideas from aerospace and the electric vehicle world.

So why hasn't the whole industry switched already?

Cost and speed, mostly. Lauan was cheap. Composite alternatives cost more per unit, require retooling on production lines, and change the structural math on rigs that are already engineered to tight specs. For a large manufacturer running thousands of units a year out of Elkhart, that transition is not a weekend project. But when lauan is staring down an 81% tariff rate, the math starts shifting in a hurry.

And lauan is not the only material in the crossfire. The administration has also imposed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports - the metals that go into your RV's frame, chassis, exterior skin, and structural components. Economists have estimated that steel tariffs alone could add a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars to the cost of a typical passenger car. RVs use considerably more steel and aluminum than a car.

Winnebago has said publicly it is weighing the impact of tariffs on its 2026 model pricing. Smaller brands have far less cushion to absorb these costs before something has to give - and that something is always the buyer.

This is the real picture here. Not one tariff on one product. It is a cascading set of duties, investigations, bilateral deals, reversals, proclamations, and new proclamations overriding the old ones - all landing simultaneously on an industry that builds a complex product out of dozens of imported components, with no ability to pause the assembly line while Washington figures itself out.

Manufacturers are trying to price units they haven't built yet, using materials whose costs are changing week to week, under rules that can shift between now and when those rigs roll onto the lot. Dealers are trying to hold quotes they've given customers on units that are weeks away from delivery. And when it all finally settles - in whatever direction it settles - that uncertainty has already been priced into the sticker you're going to see.

I have been tough on this industry. I will be tough on it again. But right now, on the materials sourcing side of this business, they are caught in a genuinely punishing situation that they did not create. The RV Industry Association is fighting it hard - lobbying the Trade Representative, working Congressional contacts, filing briefs in the Commerce investigation. The final determinations on lauan duties alone aren't expected before early July at the earliest.

Until then, the industry is making decisions in the dark. And eventually, so are you - every time you walk onto a dealer lot and look at a window sticker.

That piece of lauan in your wall didn't ask for any of this. Neither did you.

SOURCES:

1. RV Industry Association (RVIA) - "Latest Tariff Developments" (updated March 16, 2026): https://www.rvia.org/news-insights/latest-tariff-developments
   
   
2. RV Industry Association (RVIA) - "Lauan Impacted in Commerce's Initial Finding in Indonesian Plywood Countervailing Duty Investigation": https://www.rvia.org/news-insights/lauan-impacted-commerces-initial-finding-indonesian-plywood-countervailing-duty-investigation
   
   
3. RV Industry Association (RVIA) - "U.S. Announces 25% Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports": https://www.rvia.org/news-insights/us-announces-25-tariffs-all-steel-and-aluminum-imports-updated-50-tariff
   
   
4. RVBusiness - "Commerce Issues Preliminary Action in Indonesian Plywood" (February 25, 2026): https://rvbusiness.com/commerce-issues-preliminary-action-in-indonesian-plywood/
   
   
5. RVBusiness - "RVIA: Lauan Impacted in Fed's Countervailing Duty Investigation" (January 22, 2026): https://rvbusiness.com/rvia-lauan-impacted-in-feds-countervailing-duty-investigation/
   
   
6. RVBusiness - "Polser Develops 'Polfloor' Composite Panel Wood Alternative": https://rvbusiness.com/polser-develops-polfloor-composite-panel-wood-alternative/
   
   
7. RV News - "Lauan Prices to Nearly Double Beginning in Summer" (March 2026): https://www.rvnews.com/lauan-prices-to-nearly-double-beginning-in-summer/
   
   
8. RV News - "RVIA: Lauan Subject to Tariffs" (October 13, 2025): https://www.rvnews.com/rvia-lauan-subject-to-tariffs/
   
   
9. RV News - "U.S. President Plans 15% Global Tariff Following SCOTUS Decision": https://www.rvnews.com/u-s-president-imposes-15-global-tariff-following-scotus-decision/
   
   
10. Camper Report - "The Latest on Tariffs and the RV Industry": https://camperreport.com/what-do-the-tariffs-mean-to-the-rv-industry/
    
    
11. Azdel Onboard - composite panel product information: https://azdelonboard.com/
    
    
12. Coosa Composites - panel product information: https://coosacomposites.com/coosa-panels-can-give-you-the-rv-of-your-dreams/
    
    
13. The Autopian - "It's Time for the RV Industry to Ditch Tropical Plywood for Good" (September 2025): https://www.theautopian.com/its-time-for-the-rv-industry-to-ditch-tropical-plywood-for-good/
    
    
14. The Autopian - "This New Plastic and Aluminum Camper Promises a Future Without Infuriating Rot" (October 2025): https://www.theautopian.com/this-new-plastic-and-aluminum-camper-promises-a-future-without-infuriating-rot/
    
    
15. Living the RV Life - "Impact of New Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on the RV Industry": https://livingthervlife.net/impact-of-new-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-on-the-rv-industry-in-the-us-and-canada/
    
    
16. RV.com - "How Tariffs Could Impact the RV Industry": https://www.rv.com/rv/how-tariffs-could-impact-the-rv-industry/
    
    

Good - solid confirmed facts on the incident and strong statistical context. Here's the rewritten story:

2) A FAMILY OF FOUR IS IN THE HOSPITAL. THIS HAPPENS MORE THAN YOU THINK.

I want to spend a few minutes on a story that broke just last week in Florida - because it is a gut punch, and because it is a reminder that something a lot of RVers are ignoring could save their lives.

On the morning of Sunday, March 15, Citrus County Fire Rescue was called to South Bluebird Terrace in Lecanto, Florida, just before 8:30 in the morning. They arrived to find a 32-foot travel trailer fully engulfed in flames - so intense that the fire had already begun spreading to vehicles parked nearby. Four people were inside. Two adults. Two children. All four were severely burned. Crews immediately requested air transport to get the victims to trauma centers. Weather conditions on the ground that morning grounded the helicopters. All four went by ambulance.

The Florida State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause. The origin has not yet been confirmed. As of this recording on Monday, March 23, the identities and conditions of the four victims have not been made public. We will follow this story and update you on Wednesday's episide with Jennifer if anything breaks.

Citrus County Fire Rescue used this incident to issue a reminder that most people don't think about until something goes wrong: RVs and campers contain multiple fuel and electrical systems packed into a very confined space.

That is an understatement.

Think about what is actually living inside your rig. You have propane running to your stove, your oven, your water heater, your furnace. You have 12-volt DC wiring running throughout the coach. You have 120-volt shore power connections. You may have a generator. You may have a lithium battery system. All of it is compressed into a space that, in many cases, is under 300 square feet - built largely from materials that, as we discussed earlier today, are highly flammable.

And here is the number that should stop you cold.

According to the U.S. Fire Administration, an average of 4,200 RV fires are reported to fire departments every year. Those fires result in an average of 15 deaths, 125 injuries, and more than 60 million dollars in losses annually. And that is only reported fires. The National Fire Protection Association has estimated the actual number - including fires handled before a department was called - could be as high as 20,000 RV fires per year.

Most RVs, built largely from wood framing and lightweight materials, can burn to the ground in about ten minutes. Ten minutes. If you are asleep when it starts, you may not have ten minutes.

The National Park Service notes that in many investigated RV fires, victims had either no smoke detector or a non-working smoke detector.

I am going to say that one more time, because I need it to land. In many investigated RV fires - fires where people were hurt or killed - there was no working smoke detector.

This is not a complicated fix. It is a battery.

Here is your spring startup checklist, right now, before you hit the road for your first trip of the season.

Test your smoke detector. Replace the battery if there is any doubt. If the unit is more than five years old, replace the whole detector - they degrade over time and can fail silently. Test your propane detector - the one down low near the floor, because propane is heavier than air and settles at the bottom. Test your carbon monoxide detector. If you don't have one, get one before you leave the driveway.

The NPS recommends having at least three fire extinguishers in your rig - one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom area, and one in an unlocked outside compartment or in your tow vehicle. Every adult traveling with you should know where they are and how to use them.

Know your two exits. Every RV has emergency escape windows. Do you know how yours work? Does everyone in your family? Have you actually tested them? If the answer is no - that is your homework this weekend.

Shut off the propane at the tank every time you drive. Turn off all propane-powered appliances before you move. If you have an accident or a blowout with propane running, you have turned a bad day into a catastrophe.

A family of four in Florida spent last Sunday morning being loaded into ambulances with severe burns. We don't yet know if they had working detectors. We don't yet know what caused the fire. But we know this happens more than 4,000 times a year in this country - and most of those fires involve failures that were preventable.

Take the twenty minutes this week. Check the detectors. Check the extinguishers. Know your exits. Jennifer and I do this every single spring. Every single spring.

Please do it too.

SOURCES:

1. Citrus County Fire Rescue - incident report via Tampa Bay 28 / WTSP (March 16, 2026): https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/citruscounty/lecanto-rv-explosion-fire-citrus-county/67-5d38ab6e-4dd3-4e02-8d5e-0926d5db12b2
   
   
2. FOX 13 Tampa Bay - "RV explosion hospitalizes 2 children, 2 adults with severe burns": https://www.fox13news.com/news/rv-explosion-hospitalizes-2-children-2-adults-severe-burns-ccfr
   
   
3. U.S. Fire Administration / FEMA - "Data Snapshot: Recreational Vehicle Fires" (2018-2020): https://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/where-fires-occur/snapshot-rv-fires.html
   
   
4. RVTravel.com - "How many RVs are burning? It depends on where you look": https://www.rvtravel.com/rvs-burning-depends-1039b/
   
   
5. National Park Service - "Fire Prevention 52: RV Fire Safety 101": https://www.nps.gov/articles/p52-rv-fire-safety-101.htm
    

3) WE COULDN'T FIND THE RIGHT TOOL. SO WE BUILT IT

Okay. Let's talk about something we built. And I want to be upfront: Jennifer and I developed this ourselves, specifically because nothing out there was doing what we needed. So yes, I have a dog in this fight. But I also have fifteen years of RVing behind me, and I would not put my name on something that wasn't genuinely useful.

Here is the problem we kept running into.

Trip planning as an RVer is not a single-app problem. You are juggling campground availability on one app, routing and bridge clearances on another, weather on a third, fuel prices somewhere else, cell coverage on yet another. You finish one trip and you cannot remember where you stayed, what you paid, whether the Wi-Fi worked, or whether that campground with the great sunset was actually the one with the broken dump station. And when you go to plan the next trip, you start from scratch. Every. Single. Time.

We looked at every app on the market. The Dyrt, Campendium, RV Life, AllStays - all good tools, all with different strengths. But none of them brought everything together in one place, built specifically around how full-timers and serious road trippers actually plan and track their travels.

So we built the RV Lifestyle Trip Planning Dashboard. Brand new. Came out just this weekend.

It is a planning hub dashboard designed specifically for RVers - not adapted from a hotel booking tool, not borrowed from a hiking app. Built from the ground up for people who live this life or travel it seriously. This is a web-based app, meaning you don't have to install anything. You can use it on every device you have, smartphone, tablet, laptop desktop. Change a trip on one device, it shows up in all the others.

And you buy it once. Forever. We do NOT charge annual renewals like other RV apps.

On ours, you can map out your route, find campgrounds, see reviews, log your campgrounds with your own notes and ratings, track what you actually paid, store your rig height so you can avoid low overpasses, keep a travel journal tied to specific locations, and build a searchable history of everywhere you have been. Past trips. Future trips. Trips you are still dreaming about.

This is the tool I wish had existed the first time Jennifer and I pulled out of the driveway in the rig. It would have saved us a hundred headaches and probably a few arguments.

It is at RVLifestyle.com/tripdashboard. Go check it out. We even have a full walkthrough video there to demonstrate it. - I want you to see exactly what it does and how we use it ourselves on the road.

RVLifestyle.com/tripdashboard. Go.

SOURCE:

RV Lifestyle Trip Planning Dashboard: https://RVLifestyle.com/tripdashboard

4) THE WORLD IS A MESS. AMERICANS ARE GOING CAMPING.

So here’s something that actually feels good - because the data this week is genuinely encouraging for anyone in this community.

Americans are choosing camping and road trips over flying somewhere expensive and complicated. And the numbers behind that trend right now are strong.

Let's start with the big picture. A YouGov survey found that more than 43% of Americans who normally travel internationally say they traveled abroad less over the past year. Economic uncertainty and rising costs are the top reasons. Among Gen X and Baby Boomers - which is a lot of this audience - the pullback is even sharper, with about half reporting they traveled less internationally.

Hotels are feeling it too. Hotel revenue per available room in the U.S. fell in 2025, and analysts expect similar pressure in 2026. The "revenge travel" boom that followed COVID - where people were spending whatever it took to make up for lost time - is, according to industry observers, officially over.

So where are Americans going instead?

Here. Into their own backyard. Down the road. Into the campgrounds.

Campground operators heading into the 2026 season are reporting strong and stable advance bookings. KOA, which has over 500 locations across the U.S. and Canada, says reservations are pacing close to 2025 - which was itself a strong year. The sector continues to benefit from multi-generational travel, strong demand in drive-to markets, and what one operator described as "the ongoing consumer preference for experience-based, value-oriented vacations."

That phrase - experience-based, value-oriented - is worth sitting with for a second. Because that is exactly what the RV lifestyle delivers. You load up your rig, you go where you want, you sleep in your own bed, you cook your own food, you answer to nobody's itinerary but your own. When the flights are expensive, the hotels are crowded, the international headlines are ugly, and the exchange rates are punishing - the road looks better and better.

The North American Camping Report found there were more than 11 million additional U.S. households camping in 2024 compared to 2019. That surge created a ripple effect across outdoor travel - and even as other forms of travel settled back toward normal after COVID, camping stayed well above historical levels. The new campers who discovered this lifestyle during the pandemic mostly stuck around. They are planning trips right now.

Here is the practical takeaway for those of you getting your rigs ready for spring. The campgrounds are filling up. Many national and state park campgrounds release reservations six months in advance, and the most sought-after sites often book out within minutes of the reservation window opening. If you have a trip in mind for May, June, or July - do not wait. Book it this week.

The world out there is plenty complicated right now. Tariffs, trade wars, political noise, economic anxiety. But you know what cuts through all of that? Sitting around a fire somewhere beautiful, watching the stars come out, with no agenda and nowhere to be until morning.

Fifteen years on the road, and I have never once regretted choosing that over an airport.

The campgrounds are ready. Your rig is waiting. Let's go.

SOURCES:

1. YouGov - "Americans Pull Back on Global Travel Heading into 2026": https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/53736-americans-pull-back-on-global-travel-heading-into-2026
   
   
2. RVBusiness - "Early Booking Data Suggests a 'Relatively Stable' 2026" (March 2026): https://rvbusiness.com/early-booking-data-suggests-a-relatively-stable-2026/
   
   
3. WTOP News - "How Americans Are Rethinking Travel in 2026" (March 2026): https://wtop.com/travel/2026/03/travel-trends-2026/
   
   
4. Carpe Aluminum RV - "Why RV Travel Is Still Surging and What It Means for Your Summer Plans" (March 2026): https://www.carpealuminumrv.com/post/why-rv-travel-is-still-surging-and-what-it-means-for-your-summer-plans
   
   

5) CHOOSE YOUR DEALERSHIP CAREFULLY. THIS IS WHY.

I cover a lot of RV industry news on this show. I talk about manufacturer consolidation, campground pricing, national parks policy. But every few months, without fail, a story lands in my feed that reminds me why I spend so much time telling people to do their homework before they ever set foot on a dealer lot.

This is one of those stories.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office in California is investigating the abrupt closure of an RV dealership called Carson Pass RV, located in Lockeford, California. The sheriff's office says it has received multiple reports from community members who say they have suffered financial losses and, in some cases, cannot recover their own RVs.

Read that again. Cannot recover their own RVs. They brought their rigs to this dealership. The dealership closed without warning. And now those people are standing outside a locked gate trying to figure out where their property went and who has their money.

One couple - Mark and Sheila Christiansen from the community of Herald, just north of Lockeford - says they are out ten thousand dollars. They had agreed to sell their RV through Carson Pass RV, struck a deal over the phone just weeks ago, still hold the title - and then discovered the business had closed and their trailer was no longer on the lot.

Ten thousand dollars. Gone. The trailer gone. Phone calls going nowhere.

When CBS News Sacramento tried to contact Carson Pass RV - in person and by phone - they got no response. A sign on the front gate read: "Permanently closed. No drop-offs. No pick-ups. Authorized personnel only."

The investigation is active and no charges have been filed. Carson Pass RV has not responded publicly to any of the allegations. We note that clearly - this is an investigation, not a conviction. But the pattern here is one I have seen play out in this industry repeatedly over the years, and it is worth talking about directly.

Small independent RV dealerships close. Sometimes it is a business failure. Sometimes it is something worse. Either way, the customers - the people who trusted them with tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases their actual vehicles - are the ones left holding the bag. And because RV transactions often involve consignment arrangements, trade-in agreements, service holds, and partial payments, it can be extremely difficult to recover anything once the doors shut.

Here is what I want you to take away from this story - not just as a reaction to what happened in Lockeford, but as a standard approach every time you do business with an RV dealer.

First - before you sign anything or hand over any money, look up the dealer on the Better Business Bureau website. Carson Pass RV was listed there. Not accredited - and carrying a B-minus rating, with a specific notation that the business had failed to respond to a complaint filed against it. That is not a minor detail. A dealer that won't respond to a formal BBB complaint while still in business is telling you something important about how they handle problems. That information was sitting there, publicly available, before any of this happened.

Second - if you are consigning your RV for sale through a dealer, understand exactly what happens to your rig while it sits on their lot. Get it in writing. Know who holds the title. Know what the terms are if the dealership closes or fails to sell within a certain period. A handshake and a phone call agreement is not enough when your vehicle is worth twenty, thirty, fifty thousand dollars.

Third - be careful with deposits. In any transaction where money changes hands before you take delivery of a unit or receive payment for yours, you are exposed. Know your state's consumer protection laws around RV transactions. Some states have dealer bond requirements that provide recourse if a dealer fails. Many don't.

Fourth - trust your gut. If a dealership seems thin on staff, inventory is sparse, communication is slow, or something just feels off - walk away. There are good dealers out there. Don't settle for one that makes you uneasy.

We cover stories like this because they happen - not constantly, but regularly enough that I think about them every time someone asks me how to find a good RV dealer. My answer is always the same. Do your homework first, the same way you would before hiring a contractor to work on your house. The price of not doing it can be very high.

Our thoughts go out to the Christiansens and anyone else caught up in this. We hope the sheriff's investigation gives them some answers - and some justice.

SOURCE:

CBS News Sacramento - "San Joaquin Sheriff's Office Investigating Claims of Financial Losses Tied to RV Dealership" (March 18, 2026): https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sj-sheriff-carson-pass-rv-investigation/

Better Business Bureau - Carson Pass RV Business Profile: https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/lockeford/profile/rv-dealers/carson-pass-rv-1156-90066159

That is going to wrap it up for this Monday News Edition of the RV Lifestyle Podcast. Thanks for spending part of your morning with me. I hope you found something useful, something worth talking about around the campfire this week. Remember, sources for all these stories can be found under the transcript tab for this episode at RVPodcast.com

And hey - I mentioned it at the top of the show, and I meant it: check out the brand new RV Lifestyle Trip Planning Dashboard. It is live right now at RVLifestyle.com/tripdashboard. Whether you're in the planning stages of your next trip or you're already rolling down the road, this tool was built with you in mind. Head over to RVLifestyle.com/tripdashboard and take a look.

Join us Wednesday for our "Stories from the Road" Edition of the RVPodcast - Jennifer and I will be back together and we've got a great one lined up for you. Until then, keep the rubber side down, the adventure side up.

We'll see you down the road.