Rediscovering RV Serendipity
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Rediscovering RV Serendipity

B1IntermediateSeptember 9, 202626 min

After years of traveling almost entirely in fifth wheels, Mike and Jennifer added a second rig: a new-to-us 2026 Winnebago View, 25 feet long. They took it to Michigan's Upper Peninsula last week, and it changed how they traveled. The Brinkley isn't going anywhere. But somewhere in those years of towing 35 feet, they quietly stopped wandering, and never noticed they'd stopped. In this conversation they walk through the five things the small motorhome gave back, from pulling over anywhere to nap, to parking at Kitch-iti-kipi on a busy day, to taking the turn when you...

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This is episode 641 of the RV Podcast. And this week on the podcast, we took a turn last week that we would not have taken a year ago, not because we didn't want to, because we could not have gotten the rig backed out. In this episode, Jennifer and I are going to talk about what we learned taking a small motor home to Michigan's Upper Peninsula last week and about a part of the RV

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lifestyle we didn't realize we had lost until we got back. Plus we'll share travel tips, answer your RV questions and much more. This episode is being released on Wednesday, September 9th, 2026. Hello everybody.

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Welcome to the RV Podcast. I'm Mike Wenland. This is my co-host, my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer. Hello my dear.

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