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Should You Take the RV or Fly?
We flew to Atlanta for a family wedding instead of taking the RV, and the two hour flight turned into an eight hour day. In this episode we run the real numbers on driving the rig versus flying and getting a hotel, with diesel now over six dollars a gallon, and we land on the one question that actually decides it. We cover why flying saves you almost nothing on a trip under about 500 miles, what 1,400 miles costs in a 14 mile per gallon diesel Class C now compared to a year ago, what the world's...
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Welcome to episode 644 of the RV podcast. It was a two-hour flight, but it was also an eight-hour day. And what finally decided it for us wasn't the bunny or the miles, it was a hotel parking lot. Hello everybody and welcome to the RV podcast. Stories from the Road edition. In this episode's conversation we finally are going to answer a question a lot of you have asked us over the years.
Do you take the RV or do you fly and get a hotel? Plus we'll share travel tips, answer your RV questions and much more. This episode is being released on Wednesday, September 16th, 2026. So hello everybody and welcome. I'm Mike Wendland. This is my co-host, my lifelong traveling companion, dancing partner and my bride, Jennifer. Hello, my dear.
Hello, my Michael. And this is the RV podcast stories from the road edition. You can find complete show notes for this episode at rvpodcast.com. Fair warning, today's episode is loaded with numbers, phone numbers, and places you're going to want to write down. Don't try. It is all at the rvpodcast.com under the transcript tab and in the description below.
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