Episodes

Today’s show is going to be great because we’re talking to the woman who founded the Girl Camper movement. Janine Pettit loves to be outdoors and uses her RV to go wherever she’d like. She is married and sometimes goes RVing with her husband, but she also goes alone and has been doing so for many years. During her travels, she has encountered women who think that looks like so much fun, but they’re divorced or they’re widowed or they have a husband who’s a couch potato and has no interest in g...

Today, we are going to talk to three people – one experienced RVing couple and a woman who is investigating whether the full-time RVing lifestyle would be right for her and her husband. My first guests are Randy Lehnhoff and Marjory Snyder. Randy is from St. Louis and Marjory is from Effingham, IL. He was working as a truck driver for Walmart and that’s how the two met. They have been full-time RVing for more than seven years. When they first started traveling together, they would drive the tr...

Today’s show features two interviews. One with an experienced RVer with a big family, and the second with a couple who realized they don’t want to get in a situation where they are too old or too sick to do the things they have been dreaming about. The first interview is with Dave Meuer, a gentleman from Albuquerque who has been traveling for decades with his wife and six kids as they visited nearly 30 states. Now they have children and grandchildren scattered from Hawaii to the east coast of ...

Today, I’ll speak with two couples who are exploring the RV and Workamping lifestyle. My first guests are Ronnie and Marci Stacy, who are from Dayton, Ohio. They have been weekend warriors for quite a while, but plan to embrace full-time RVing this spring. Ronnie is a garage door installer and Marci oversees the transcription staff at a children’s hospital. They attended the 2019 Workamper Rendezvous in October to gather more information to develop a three-year plan for hitting the road. One...

Today we’re going to talk to the new director of the RV Safety and Education Foundation about things people can do to make their RV experience more enjoyable. Trey Selman is the executive director of the RV Safety and Education Foundation, an organization that teaches people how to operate their recreation vehicles safely and to follow weight guidelines. He describes the history of RVSEF and how he became involved with the group. RVSEF is a big proponent of getting motorhomes, fifth wheels an...

In today’s episode, we will feature several women who are embracing the RV and Workamping lifestyle with their husbands. When I interviewed her, Deborah Cole was already retired and waiting for her husband to follow her lead. They have been camping for years; first in a tent, and then in a popup before upgrading to a 27-foot travel trailer. Her husband is an international flight attendant based out of Memphis. While they do get to travel all over the world, when it comes to RVing, they have be...

Today we are going to talk with a couple who has been RVing and Workamping since 2005. Howard and Linda Payne are natives of Louisville, KY. They both worked professional jobs when, in 2005, they turned 42 and realized they wanted more freedom and flexibility in their lives. The motivation behind the move was interesting, as was the speed in which they embraced the change as everything fell into place. They bought an RV and hit the road in August of that year. Since then, they have worked nin...