The Fabulous 2021 Florida RV Supershow is ON for Jan 13-17

After a year of RV show cancellations because of COVID, the RV Show season is set to roar back next month with the 2021 Florida RV Supershow in Tampa Jan. 13-17. Here's what to expect: Because the Florida RV Supershow is mostly outside, organizers say they are confident that social distancing, wearing masks inside the RV, limits of how many people can be in an RV at one time, along with frequent sanitization can make for a safe show. On the RV Podcast Interview f the week, we learn what to expect. Plus we have lots of RV News this week, your questions and feedback about the RV Lifestyle and a great off the beaten path report from the Burketts. All that is waiting for you in Episode 324 of the RV Podcast! You can listen to the podcast in the player below. And scroll down this page for shownotes and a transcript of the interview, plus links and resources about all the things we talk about. WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK We share our current RV Lifestyle activities, including: Getting ready for Christmas - Even in the year of COVID, there's no stopping Christmas! To see the video we did about decorating an RV for Christmas, CLICK HERE. Travel 2021 – Tampa RV Supershow - We'll be there! Schedule - We will have an RV Podcast on Dec 22, but take off the week between Christmas and New Year's This part of the RV Podcast is brought to you by Camping World – America’s #1 RV Dealer RV PODCAST INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK - The 2021 Florida RV Supershow The RV show season is about to begin again after a tumultuous 2020 that cancelled almost every show from February through this month. But in just a few weeks, the show season starts again with the 2021 Florida RV Supershow, to run January 13-17 at the Tampa Fairgrounds in Tampa, FL. Dave Kelly, of the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Our guest this week is Dave Kelly, the Executive Director of the Florida RV Trade Association, which puts on the annual show, always one of the largest, and as you;ll hear from Dave, probably the largest RV show in the nation. Here's a transcript of our interview about the 2021 Florida RV Supershow: Mike Wendland: Joining us right now to talk about the big show, I feel like Ed Sullivan, the Big Show, is Dave Kelly from the Tampa RV Super Show. How you doing, Dave? Dave Kelly: Thanks. Yeah, thanks for having me. Great. We're doing wonderful down here. Mike Wendland: Well, we are...it certainly has been a year. In fact, it was almost a year ago, that was really the last of the big shows and wow. What a show last year was. So I am delighted that you guys are on, and hopefully this sets the stage for us out of the funk that 2020 was. Tell us about the show, the dates, what people need to know in terms of being careful about social distance stuff, all that. What do we need to know about this year's, this 2021 big super show in Tampa again? Here's a video of what the 2020 Florida RV Supershow was like, just before COVOD forced the cancellations of the rest of the RV Show Season Dave Kelly: Well, we open on Wednesday the 13th of January, and we run through the 17th. $12 for adults. We've extended our senior days to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this year. $2 off for seniors any of those days and kids under 16 free. So it's a great family way to spend the day with the family out at the show. We will be doing temperature checking and a mask by Hillsborough County ordinance would be required in the buildings and when you're inside the RV. We're going to try to make it as unobtrusive as possible for everyone to have a good time. As you know, the majority of the show is outdoors and from what we're reading, the outdoors is a fairly safe place to be. So, we're feeling uncomfortable we can provide a safe atmosphere for the show. Mike Wendland: Give us a sense of the size of this year's show. I know not all the folks that exhibited last year will be there this year, but it looks from what I could look in the early literature, it looks like you're going to have most of the major ones there. Why some RV Manufacturers won't be at the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Dave Kelly: Well, we're still, yeah. We had some manufacturers that were just having production issues and getting things like furniture and appliances and things like that for the coaches. So they felt like they couldn't do a good representative display of their products, but pretty much everything else, the major manufacturers are going to be on display. Everything from the smallest little teardrop trailers, all the way up to the two and a half million dollar... Something in your price range. Mike Wendland: Yeah. That has been the most successful video I've ever did. I did a tour of one of those two and a half million dollar ones, and it's been watched 3 million times, my video, but yeah, it would be nice to have that price [crosstalk 00:02:55]. Talk about the seminars, which is a big part, I think of the super show, the Super RV Show. I love all the seminars. Are they still going to be able to go off as scheduled this year? There will be seminar crowd limits at the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Dave Kelly: We are. It's going to be limited seating for this year. We're going to spread out the seating a little bit more and to have three different monitors so everyone can see all the information. But we're lucky to have the GeeksOnTour this year. They're going to do maps and apps that you need for traveling. We got a chassis seminar. We got seminars on traveling to Alaska, what to expect, how to plan, traveling in clubs. So there'll be a seminar just about for everybody, no matter what your RV experience is. Mike Wendland: There are a number of people who every year camp there and have a big rally. Is that still on? Do you still have people coming? Camping opportunities at the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Dave Kelly: We do. We actually, at this point have just about 800 rigs signed up for our rally and we're not going to be able to do the entertainment so then in the evening, but they will be able to get coffee and donuts in the morning and then they have unlimited access to the show so they can come and go and go and basically you walk back to their RV and have lunch and then come back in the afternoon. It's a nice setup for them that they don't have to be rushed through the show. They have plenty of time to see it. Mike Wendland: Now, is there room for more? Have you sold that out, the rally? Dave Kelly: Yeah, we do some drive-ups on that. Some people are a lot skeptical about just driving up without having a reserve spot, but we do still have some spots that if people want to contact us we could squeeze in a few more. Mike Wendland: Okay. Well, that's good. I'll put a link to all the information in the show notes for the podcast episode here. Walk us through a little bit about the mask in going into the RV. Sometimes those RVs can get pretty crowded. They do all the time with so many people. I would imagine that the manufacturers are going to have to somewhat limit how many people can be in an RV at a certain time? There will be limits about how many can be in an RV at the same time Dave Kelly: Yeah, well, we're lucky that we're almost a year into the virus and our dealers down here have never closed. So the dealers have been working as far as a safe way to show the coaches, one family at a time limiting the number of people. Even some of the manufacturers limiting the number of people in their displays so that it doesn't get overcrowded and social distancing. We're going to be making announcements and of course, signage for people to make sure they give each other plenty of room. And we're lucky that we are so far into it that people have come to know and coming to get used to the fact that when they're inside, they will have to have a mask and in the coaches of course. And there'll be regular cleanings and the dealers have always done that and have been doing it very, very carefully the last few months. So, showing the RV's and doing that is not anything that's just now starting. They've been doing this for awhile. Entertainment at the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Mike Wendland: Now you mentioned that with the rally that the normal nighttime entertainment that they got at the rally won't be happening. But what about the entertainment. You are also known for all this. It's a spontaneous entertainment that comes with your parades and all of the different entertainers that... will they still be throughout the show Dave Kelly: Yeah. We're lucky. A lot of the entertainers are very excited about coming back. Unfortunately for them they've gone a year now with a lot of the events that they normally work, being canceled. And so they're all very excited and very anxious to show everyone a good time at the Super Show. Again, everything from jugglers to stilt walkers to unicycle riders, dog shows. I mean, you name it. We have... the more unusual the entertainment, the better we like, and having it at the show. Mike Wendland: Now, for those who have never been to the show, it is an event in and of itself with all of that entertainment. But it is also a place where you can bring your dogs as long as you got them on a leash. Is that still a go? Pets are allowed (on a leash) at the 2021 Florida RV Supershow Dave Kelly: Yeah. A lot of people travel with their pets. And so we provide a pet-friendly atmosphere for the mild-tempered dogs and the ones that are on leash. Mike Wendland: All right. We might actually have our Bo with us this time. He's got more fans than we do, so. Dave Kelly: They do. The dogs get more attention than anything else at the show. Mike Wendland: I guess. Well, we're excited now that we have... we've made the decision that we're going to be there. And I think that it's a new year and if the industry ever needed an RV show, now's the time and the Super Show is the one to go to because we think it's great. Here's the last question I have for you,