RV Podcast Episode 220: Safely and securely storing your RV for the season

Is your RV in storage? Whether out in your driveway, parked around back or kept at one of those storage lots that charge a monthly fee there’s a lot more involved in safely and securely storing your RV for the season than simply locking the doors and walking away until it’s camping season again. We’ll discuss thus in the interview if the week, coming up a little later in the podcast. But we also have your RV questions, traveling technology tips and a great off the beaten path report. Show Notes for Episode #220 Nov 28, 2018 of Roadtreking - The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK Here’s a housekeeping item. Throughout the podcast, you will often hear us say that you can find links or resources about the topics we are discussing on our shownotes. For those of you who just listen to us on an app or by download, those shownotes can be found on our RV Lifestyle travel blog. We call that blog Roadtreking and every Wednesday when we release a new podcast, we also publish shownotes for the episode. It’s not a full transcript but a very complete outline that contains those links and extra resources. To find it, just go to Roadtreking.com and then a forward slash followed by the episode number of the podcast. For example, to find the shownotes for this episode, you’d type Roadtreking-dot-com-slash-220 and that would take you directly there. We talk about our whereabouts this week and our plans for the next few weeks. Jennifer and I have put together a free 25-page guide you can grab of our Christmas Gift Suggestions for RVers. These are the products and accessories we like and use the most. It's absolutely free! Just go to https://rvlifestyle.com/christmas and you can instantly download it. It is like a catalogue and is arranged by various topics - camping/outdoor gifts, RV technology ideas, pet gifts for RVers, RV kitchen gifts, fun gifts and more. We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share it with your RVing friends. RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK JENNIFER Story highlights overuse of American national parks An interesting article was jointly reported and published in several publications last week detailing how the national parks are being loved to death. The excellent article highlighted two-mile long bison spotting traffic jams at Yellowstone, fist fights over parking spots in the parks, and once unknown sites being overwhelmed by tourists after becoming famous on social media - as we talked on the podcast a few weeks back. The article is worth a read, and is familiar material to many of us who are out there and have witnessed much of what is described. We put a link to it in the showbites at Roadtreking-dot-com-slash-220. MIKE Seasoned RVers, and those who never RVed, buying motor homes and trailers to give to fire victims Heartbreaking stories about the devastation caused by the California wildfires has dominated the news recently, but last week there were a number of inspirational tales of strangers helping strangers. One that caught my eye was of a Denver, Colorado, man who took a week off work, bought an RV, filled it with supplies, and drove it with his 6-year-old daughter to Chico, California, to donate it to a family left homeless from the fires. And he wasn't the only one to do this. Others even made a caravan to donate campers and RVs to those left homeless by the fires. JENNIFER National Park Service announced its 2019 enter for free days If you like to plan your camping around deals, you might be interested in knowing that the 2019 five admission-free days in the U.S. National Parks was recently announced. The days are Jan. 21, April 20, Aug. 25, Sept. 28 and Nov. 11. On these days admission to the national parks is free, but other charges like tour or camping costs still apply. To read more click here. MIKE Florida couple who claim RV dealer sold them faulty vehicle denied request to keep lawsuit in Florida A story out of Florida last week is a good example of the importance of reading and understanding ALL of the fine print when buying an RV. A couple bought a three-year-old used RV at a dealership in Florida as is, with no warranty, and said within 600 miles major items broke. The couple sued the dealer for bad business practices, but in the purchase agreement the elderly couple signed, all lawsuits must be tried in Michigan, where the RV dealer was headquartered. The couple apparently did not understand this when they signed the contract, and do not have the financial means to hire a Michigan attorney and try the case so far from their home, so they filed a court request to keep the case in Florida, where they bought the vehicle. A judge denied that request. The RV dealer said they couple bought the RV as is, with no warranty, and they signed paperwork that clearly spelled out lawsuits would be tried in another state. The story is another example about the importance of the buying decision and its one reason we write a new ebook, RV Buying Secrets. It tells you how