"The Ultimate Guide to RV Gear and Safety with Joshua Sheehan

In this episode my expert guest and I discuss essential RV gear, offer safety tips, and address listener questions to enhance the RV living experience. RV Life Podcast, with me (Patti Hunt) and guest Joshua Sheehan of RV Gear and Far, explore topics ranging from key RV gear recommendations, such as the Micro-Air EasyTouch thermostat and gas stop safety device, to practical solutions like motion-activated LED nightlights and digital photo frames for personalizing your RV space. The episode also features a discussion on whether to store personal belongings when transitioning to full-time RV life, alongside exploring the benefits of a digital toll pass system. The featured campground of the week is Thousand Trails Blue Mesa Recreational Ranch in Gunnison, Colorado, known for its scenic beauty. Through valuable insights and personal anecdotes, the episode aims to educate, entertain, and inspire RV enthusiasts to explore and enjoy the RV lifestyle more fully.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is your RV must-have gear?
I'm Patti Hunt and you'relistening to the RV Life Podcast
.
Today's guest is going to sharesome of his top RV gear that
you may need or may just want.
For those of you new to the RVLife Podcast, my mission is to

(00:23):
educate, entertain and inspireyou to explore the RV lifestyle.
Being full-time for the pastthree years, I've learned so
much and I continue to learnevery day.
Now, some of that learning camefrom epic fails, big, major
mess-ups, and I try and sharethose with my audience so that

(00:48):
you don't make the same mistake.
This podcast was created topass that knowledge on to you,
our listeners.
Each week, my expert guestsbring valuable information as
well as products and servicesthat help you, the RVer.
I think the best part of thisis a lot of times we can offer

(01:09):
you special discounts that helpyou to afford this RV lifestyle.
Now it's time for our fun fact,and that is brought to you by
Open Roads Resorts Now.
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They have two locations inMontana, one in Idaho, one in

(01:31):
Texas and their newest locationin Omaha, nebraska.
It's called West Omaha KOA,which is the newest addition to
the portfolio, and it is greatfor guests traveling back and
forth from the west to the eastcoast.
This summer you can take a pitstop in Omaha.
But I think it's more than justa pit stop place.

(01:54):
This campground is highlyamenitized for all family
members, including thefour-legged ones.
It's the perfect scenic setting.
Close to it all.
Open Roads Resort now has fivegreat locations.
The fun fact today is more of atip this week For those of you

(02:16):
that are thinking about sellingyour RV, whether you're looking
for a new RV or you're thinkingabout stopping the RV life.
My friends, tom and Kate fromMorton's On the Move wrote an
incredibly informative articleand it has great suggestions on
how to sell your RV.
They talk about finding theright time of year to sell the

(02:38):
RV, certainly taking greatpictures and having a great
description.
They also say to be honest,share honestly what's going on
with your RV, share themaintenance records.
They talk about pricing itright and where to list your RV.
Now, as many of you know, weare selling our Monaco Dipl and

(03:02):
pricing it and finding where tosell it, I got to be honest, was
a challenge.
So we were introduced byPatrick Buchanan from RV Life to
National Vehicle and I calledNational Vehicle and I spoke to
Krista.
Krista is an amazing person.

(03:22):
She walked me through theirwhole process.
She told me everything thatNational Vehicle will do to help
me sell my RV.
And I gotta be totally honestany of our RV podcast listeners
know I am all about transparency.
As she was talking I wasthinking this is going to cost a

(03:43):
small fortune and I'm out.
That was my thought.
I got it, totally be honest.
So she walks me througheverything that National Vehicle
does.
They help you price it right.
They get all your pictures upand added.
They help with the description.
They have it posted in sixdifferent places.
They have it posted in sixdifferent places.

(04:04):
So RV Trader Craigslist, sixdifferent places.
And the best part, she said,was when someone calls about
your RV, they have a call centerso they verify those callers.
The worst part of sellingsomething is the scammers out
there so trying to verify realRV customers.

(04:26):
So that alone I was pretty sold.
Except again, I was stillthinking, okay, how much is this
going to cost me?
And I will be honest, when shesaid the price, which was under
$700, I had to repeat it,thinking it was $7,000.
I'd literally said I forget theexact price.

(04:47):
I want to say it was $695.
And she said $695.
And I said $695, not $6,000,because I believe the service is
worth so much more.
So I've had the RV listed withNational Vehicle and it has been
an absolute amazing process.

(05:09):
I also spoke to Kevin Tadlock,who is the president of the
company Again, a wonderful humanbeing.
He saw a need in the industryand he is filling it and he will
be a guest on the RV Lifepodcast in the next several
weeks.
Now today we're talking aboutproducts that we love, that we

(05:32):
use.
Our guest has tested products,but I got to tell you one of my
favorite products is my freshtank and this is a cleaner.
It cleans and deodorizes yourfresh holding tanks, the water
supply lines and the fixture,and this is by Clear 2.0.
And you can check them out atclear2ocom.

(05:54):
It's the beginning of theseason for a lot of RVers and it
is now time to flush thosetanks, get them cleaned and
sanitized.
To flush those tanks, get themcleaned and sanitized.
If you've winterized your RV,pouring all that junk in it, now

(06:16):
you could use Fresh Tank tode-winterize Again, really
cleaning and flushing that tankout and the lines you can find
out company with amazingproducts.
Today I'm excited to introduceJoshua Sheehan.
He's a thinker, a gear tester,a tinkerer.
He's a thinker too, but atinkerer you don't hear that

(06:40):
word a lot.
He's a gear tester and aone-man show behind RV Gear and
Bar.
Embarked on the full time RVjourney two years ago with his
wife and twin sons and their dogin a 35-foot travel trailer.
As the face of RV Gear and Bar,joshua curates a wealth of

(07:03):
knowledge on all his channels,offering valuable RV tips,
how-to guides and insightfulgear reviews.
His expertise extends beyondvideo content, having served as
the charismatic host of the RVEntrepreneur Podcast and as the
driving force behind the RVContent Creators Mastermind

(07:28):
Group, fostering a community oflike-minded individuals
passionate about the RVlifestyle and content creation.
Joshua's journey is a testamentto the possibilities of
blending travel, family and apassion for sharing experiences
in the ever-expanding world ofvehicle-based adventure travel.

(07:51):
Joshua Sheehan, welcome to theRV Life Podcast.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Thank you, patty, for that warm introduction, and I'm
excited to continue thisconversation.
We've talked numerous timesoffline and it's finally time to
talk online, and I'm gratefulfor it.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I am too, because the conversations that we have like
I have with a lot of my guestsis so informative.
We've got to share it time onthe road for the last two years
wife, twin sons and a dog.

(08:28):
Take us back to the time whereyou and your wife had this
conversation and you decided togo on the road full time.
What did that conversation?
How did it start?
What did it look like?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, so we my wife was active duty Air Force and so
we had moved around quite a bitoverseas in the States since
getting married and it wasalways in the back of our head
of we didn't necessarily knowwhere home was going to be once
she got out of the military andwe had actually met.
When I was doing an internshipfor a college in Idaho, I was

(09:02):
working at the military base outthere doing an internship with
the outdoor recreation programand my wife was volunteering as
a wet water rafting guide andthey put me up in one of their
RVs at their RV park.
That was my housing for thesix-month internship and so I
was living in full-time in an RVstationary before I even knew
it was a thing.
And now, looking back on thattime, I didn't touch a gray or

(09:26):
black tank the entire time andI'm now knowing better,
wondering what kind of havoc Idid to that RV and what they set
it all up for me.
I didn't even I had no cluewhat kind of things I needed to
be doing, but I think thatmight've set the seed.
And then, a few years later, wewere doing the math of how old
our boys were going to be whenshe retired and the fact that we

(09:47):
didn't know where we wanted tobe.
Let's just do a big road tripand my kids were eight when we
left and it was two part a bigroad trip to go see the United
States, but also exploring wherewe might want to settle down,
and we're actually transitioningto more part-time lifestyle.
At this point we're looking atbuying a house and I think it's
going to be a good blend ofdoing the road trip and setting

(10:08):
up our lives in a manner that wecan go, take three, four, six
week trips and then be able tocome home and have the best of
both worlds be able to have alittle bit more stability in a
home base, but then also makingsure that we keep our life
designed in a way that we can goout and adventure and take
trips and explore in a waythat's more than just a four-day
weekend.

(10:28):
And I don't know, we can't traceit back to a hey, let's go
RVing and someone saying thatand having that in our
conversation.
It just it was there and sodefinitely for the past six,
eight years, that was the planand we started off with a pop-up
camper, because that's what ourminivan could tow and we had

(10:50):
two pop-ups before we bought ourcurrent travel trailer and it's
been a wild ride and I've heardsomeone reference pop-up
campers as like a gateway druginto RVing and that was
definitely holding true for usof being able to get in easy,
quick, cheap, being able tostore it in the garage, not have
to deal with getting a new towvehicle, being able to store it
in the garage, not have to dealwith getting a new tow vehicle,

(11:11):
and it's led to now my entirepassion and career is now
revolved around RVing and RVcontent creation.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow, yes, and I want to get into that, but I'm still
stuck on.
The tanks were never emptied, Ijust, and I think we could
leave it.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I don't know.
I don't think they took out theblack tanks and direct plumbed
it, as would have beenappropriate for that type of
thing, because it's just thisspecific military base.
They had rental RVs and theyjust took one of the rental RVs
and set it up at the campground.
So I don, some of our RVlisteners are new.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Okay, I know that if I am hooked up to sewer service
and I have water, so gray andblack tank, I can go.
If I'm taking showers atleisure and I because I know I

(12:00):
could dump them at any time Ican maybe go six or seven days.
Look, truth be told, I love mylong hot showers.
You can't go six months in anytrailer.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
No, but I now know better that I shouldn't be
leaving my black tank open allthe time.
Right, you need to fill it upto 75% full and then dump it,
and I didn't do any of that.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, so it's possible they were left open.
So again, this is a greatteaching point for our listeners
.
We have a lot of new peoplethere's.
The black tank should never beleft open.
There's a lot of controversy asto whether or not the gray tank
is okay to leave it open.

(12:43):
So you can look at differentpeople.
Some people say absolutely not,bugs will get in, do not ever
leave that gray tank open.
And some people say, yes, it'sfine to leave it open.
Do you have any thoughts?
I'm putting you on the spothere.
Do you have any thoughts onleaving the?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
gray tank.
My thought is that this is adebate that we will never settle
.
It will always be a topic ofconversation in forums and I
don't think that even if the topthree biggest RV companies come
out with a recommendation, thatit will ever be a settled
debate.
I personally keep my gray tankclosed until we dump and or if
we're going to do two or threeshowers in a row, we'll open it,

(13:21):
let it go during the showersand then close it back up, but I
don't think this is a B.
This one, and then also drivingwith your propane on, are going
to be debates that are nevergoing to be settled.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
So I am, you're right and I think that we can leave
it at that.
I'm with you.
I started closing the gray tankjust two of us and we could
both take a shower.
I like to keep the gray tankclosed, especially because
before I dump the black tank, Iwant to dump the black tank and
then have the pressure of thegray tank to flush it through.

(13:54):
There's our RV listeners' firsttip on black and gray tanks.
Now you chose a 25-foot traveltrailer after the pop-ups, 35.
35 foot, I'm sorry, 35 foot,thank you.
I get asked another impossiblequestion.
So maybe this is the day ofimpossible questions.

(14:15):
I get asked all the time what'sthe best RV type for me?
And I say to people what's thebest house for you?
So why did you choose a traveltrailer?
What was the thinking?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Sure, we were looking for something that we could
afford and we were also lookingfor something that had both a
bunk room with a closable doorand a master sleeping area with
a closable door.
So obviously travel trailersare on the more affordable side
of the spectrum.
As far as hard-sided RVs withtravel trailers, fifth wheels
and motorhomes, we didn'tnecessarily at that time want to

(14:48):
be dealing with two differentmotors, so a Class C with a
towed was not really appealingto us.
And then it was fifth wheel ortravel trailer.
Originally we had done someresearch and we're wanting to
tow with a half-ton pickup Againwith a half-ton pickup Again,
just the not knowing a lot aboutRVs and towing capacity and

(15:10):
payload capacity and by thenumbers, the half-ton pickup we
chose with this max tow packagewould tow this RV in towing
capacity.
But as soon as I towed it forthe first time and then I took
it out one more time after thatI said there's no way that I'm
driving the entire countrywhite-knuckling it this whole
time.
So we ended up upgrading to athree quarter ton gas engine

(15:31):
truck, which has been fantastic.
It was night and day differencein the truck towing the trailer
versus the trailer pushing thetruck of what we could afford,
what fit our need and also asfar as the RV, but also then
what size truck we wanted to getinto.
And at that time I wasn'tinterested in getting into a

(15:52):
one-ton truck.
If I could go back and givemyself advice, I would just get
the one-ton truck to begin withand avoid the half-ton moving to
the three-quarter ton.
And if I couldn't do that, I'dgive myself advice of going from
the half-ton to three-quarterton.
Just go with the one ton.
You're never going to be upsetabout having too much capacity,
especially when we're talkingabout towing RVs up and down

(16:13):
mountains and across the UnitedStates.
It's all a cost-benefitanalysis and you have to decide
what works for you, what'savailable.
Truck prices the past few yearshave been astronomical.
There's plenty of full-timefamilies I've met that they
could tow a 25-foot traveltrailer with a half-ton truck
and they made it work.
So don't let the lack ofgetting the perfect thing stop

(16:35):
you from getting out on the road, because I don't know that I've
ever met an RVer that's RVedfor any length of time, that has
only had one RV.
The time in your life is goingto change.
The space is going to change Ifyou're getting an RV that fits
little kids.
When you have two or threeteenagers in the house you need
a different setup, purely bunkspace, and then when they leave,

(16:57):
you don't need that bunk spaceanymore and you'd rather have
the living space.
So I don't think that there's aperfect RV, especially for me
and our family, of going throughthose family stages, of buying
the last RV first.
It's just, it's not possible atthis point in our journey.
It's what worked and it workedwell for us, traveled close to
20,000 miles in two years andit's served us well.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
So the impossible question with a lot of great
advice.
And it really does depend.
Dan and I have a 40-foot dieselpusher.
It's just the two of us.
It's great for us and we wouldgo back to a Class A.
That's just what works for us.
And people know that Dan isdealing with medical issues.

(17:43):
So, with coming, you just neverknow.
It's like you said, you neverknow.
So a lot of great advice therefor people that are looking for
that.
What should I buy?
There's a lot of things thatyou shared for people to
consider.
So thank you for helping withagain one of those impossible
questions.
This is the second one in ourfirst 20 minutes of the show,

(18:05):
but let's switch gears a littlebit.
You're a lot like me and youwear many different hats.
When I first was introduced toyou, you were the charismatic
host of the RV EntrepreneurPodcast and you provided so much
incredibly valuable informationand I invite people to go back

(18:26):
and listen to those episodesbecause that information is
still so important.
Now, while you're not the hostof the RB Entrepreneur Podcast
anymore, it is our partnerpodcast and the new hosts are
Jim Nelson, rose Willard andKimberly Crossland and again, if
you're an entrepreneur, Ihighly recommend it.

(18:49):
It is a great resource forentrepreneurs.
But now, josh, you justswitched gears.
You're still very much involvedwith providing entrepreneurs
with resources, information,knowledge, and you started the
RV Content Creators MastermindGroup and I had the privilege of

(19:10):
actually meeting you in Tampajust recently.
And what's really interestingabout being in the RV world and
quote unquote meeting people?
We had talked many times.
I felt like I knew you.
I'd seen you, I'd seen yourvideos.
I felt like I knew you And'dseen you.
I'd seen your videos.
I felt like I knew you.
And there we were, in Tampajust four months ago, and it was

(19:31):
the first time we ever met faceto face.
I felt like I had known youforever.
So it's funny, when thathappened, we were at that event
in Tampa and it was what anincredible event, what an
incredible event.
It was what an incredible event, what an incredible event.
So any listeners out there thatare entrepreneurs, content
creators, influencers whateveryou want to call yourselves

(19:53):
these are the events they needto connect with you.
So tell people about this ideaof creating the RV.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
It was a totally selfish idea.
I was beginning my journey as acontent creator about four
years ago with my first channel,gander Flight, and I wanted to
ask some of the people who arefurther on down that path some
questions and get some insightand some advice.
And I thought I could reach outto them individually and I may
or may not get an answer back ina direct message or an email.

(20:21):
But what if I create a spacethat's a closed room environment
so it's not open to the public,but where we can have a
mastermind or a conferencesession on best practices of the
things that aren't necessarilyforward facing to the community?
And so I was like there's gotto be something already out
there.

(20:41):
There's got to be a space whereall these people are talking,
because the RV community is sointerconnected.
I can't imagine that channel Ais not talking to channel B and
they were, but there was nocentral location where they were
, and so I was like, let's seeif we can.
I'm going to try and createthis space.
And so a simple Facebook groupand started sending out invites
on Instagram.
There's now 1500 contentcreators in there and, as you

(21:03):
pointed out, we're doingin-person events and connecting
all the content creatorstogether and also the industry
partners.
So there's a lot of overlapbetween brands and aftermarket
manufacturers, but there's alsonot been a lot of historical
connection between them andgetting them in the same space,
and so that's been the goal thepast few years, but it basically
was selfish.
It was like, hey, I want to askthese questions and I'd also

(21:24):
like to crowdsource theseanswers.
Let's create a space for thatto happen.
And it's been incrediblywell-received, super beneficial.
I don't even know if there's away we could measure the metrics
of how beneficial that spacehas been for connecting people
and getting people started andencouraging them and moving them
along down their journey as acontent creator.
But yeah, it was selfish.

(21:44):
I wanted to learn more, so Icreated a space where I could
bring in people who were moreexperienced than myself and by
facilitating that, I got to askall my questions.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
And I love that you were selfish, because it created
an amazing space.
A lot of people know, or maybethey don't, but Dan's background
is in the entertainmentindustry.
So from the time he was a baby,he was in and around the
entertainment industry, behindthe camera, in front of the
camera, creating content, andthat has changed over time,

(22:17):
obviously, but it's his field.
And when you move into, let'screate an RV podcast, let's
create an RV YouTube channel.
We both have YouTube channelsas well.
What's different about that?
Because there are still thingsto learn and ways to grow, and
your group, facebook group, yourlive event, was incredible.

(22:42):
It just is that wealth of value.
Has that the value, I feel like, within content creators.
I talked to a lot of people thatare starting out as content
creators, for I want to say,most RVers and I don't have the
statistics most RVers need to dosomething to create money, and

(23:04):
the go-to is usually let mecreate content somehow, whether
it's a YouTube channel, podcast,a blog, whatever.
There's endless ways to createcontent and a lot of people
would ask what do I do?
What about microphones?
What about this?
What about that?
I've had people now say I wantto start a podcast.
Where do I begin?

(23:25):
So I think that the need withinthe RV community is huge for
this, and the nice thing is,people are willing to share.
I've never seen an industrywhere people are so willing to
help each other and share, andthen you've created this
environment.
There were I don't even knowhow many people were at that

(23:47):
event a couple hundred.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, about 40.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
It was packed and I made so many connections.
I learned so much from people.
I've connected with people thathave been on the podcast
offering me information andvaluable resources, as well as
my listeners, so it was anincredible event.
Now I happen to not in the area.

(24:17):
I'm going to make sure I'm inthe area and, again, I want our
listeners to know that's howimportant.
So if they're looking atcreating content, being an
influencer again whatever theywant to call themselves, people
who have affiliate programs theywant to be affiliates for
whatever product or service.
That's an entrepreneur.
You're creating content.

(24:39):
How can you do that?
So I can't say enough about it,because I think that your
selfishness has certainly led alot of people to something very
valuable.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, thank you.
I want to go ahead and plug theRV entrepreneur side of that as
well, because a lot of timessomeone who's interested in
creating content is going tosearch that out and they want to
be content creators and go downthat route.
But there's this entire othersector of just the rest of
entrepreneurship, that is, Iunderstand that I have to have a
Facebook page and maybe I needto do a few videos, but I'm not

(25:10):
like that's not my passion.
My passion is providing thisservice, whether it be taxes or
route planning or whatever itmay be.
Or I have this product thatsupports the RV industry, or I
have this industry that'stotally unrelated to RVing, but
I want to full-time travel as anRVer.
That's where the RVEntrepreneur podcast and
Facebook group and communitycomes into play, because it's

(25:32):
not just content creators.
So as much as the contentcreators are part of the RV
Entrepreneur group, it's moreniched down and I think if we
take one step up in thehierarchy the RV Entrepreneur
and his sister podcast thatrealm of community is so much
wider that it has.
If you're an entrepreneur or asolopreneur or a business owner

(25:53):
of any sort and interested inRVing, that's the place to go.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
And thank you for clarifying that that is so
important.
So, thank you, you said itperfectly, you're absolutely
right.
And again, I think there's onlya small percentage of RVers
that said, okay, I could RVfull-time, part-time sometime,
I've got retirement, I don'tneed to worry about making money
on the road.
I think that's just a smallpercentage.

(26:19):
So for the rest of us, there isthe RV Entrepreneur Podcast.
Thank you for clarifying that.
And, to add on, in September,the Hershey RV Show on the 12th,
which is that Thursday.
That Thursday, the RVEntrepreneur, as well as RV Life

(26:44):
Podcast, is now a two-partevent where the RV Entrepreneur
will be doing the whole day forentrepreneurs that are learning,
just like you talked abouteverything there is to know
about business, and then atnight it will be the RV Life
Live After Party.
So information will be comingon that soon.
So that's great information.
Now let's get into.
You are a tinker, a gear testerand a one-man show behind RV

(27:11):
Gear and Far.
So let's, what is RV Gear andFar?
Talk about the other selfishreason how did that get started?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, so RV Gear and Far is my, I guess my brand.
It's a YouTube channelprimarily, and also Instagram,
tiktok, facebook, all the socialmedia stuff where I'm sharing
RV tips, gear reviews andhow-tos, and so I really enjoy
testing product A versus productB and finding out what's the
best use case for an individualuser, because the crowd favorite

(27:40):
might be perfectly fine for 75%of the RV community, but maybe
you fall into that 25% and wantto know why you might choose the
maybe less popular product fora reason that's going to fit
your situation better.
And just sharing those insightsand those experiments and those
perspectives and just gather it.
The goal is to create aone-stop shop of places to go.

(28:02):
If you are looking to make adecision for RV gear or you'd
like to learn some new tips ormaybe some hacks of how to make
something better, that RV gearand forest is the place to go,
and it's originally.
I was doing a lot of that stuffon my prior channel, gander
Flight, but I also had a lot ofjust regular DIY things and the

(28:24):
reason the RV gear and FAR cameabout is because I was becoming
so varied in the things that Iwas posting to the previous
brand that the audience was abit confused.
They didn't know whether theywere getting backyard DIY stuff
or RV content, and sometimes asmuch as there's a lot of overlap
between those two backyard DIYstuff or RV content and
sometimes as much as there's alot of overlap between those two
DIYers being RVers and RVersbeing DIYers.

(28:44):
There's also a lot of disconnectand through the mastermind
group of just talking with othercontent creators and going to
conferences and learning moreabout YouTube, I decided it
would be better to make a moreclear lens for the content and
say, if it's RV related tips,gear reviews and how to's, then
it's going to go here, and thenI still have Gander Flight where
I can do all the passionprojects and the creative

(29:06):
outlets that don't necessarilyfall into that.
But it was just a clear lensfor both myself and for my
audience of what am I going toget here and it has been
absolutely one of the bestdecisions I've made.
It's absolutely humblingstarting over from zero, when
you've put three years intosomething, but the amount of
feedback that I've gottenbecause of that narrowing and

(29:27):
focusing down of people knowingwhat they're getting when they
come, has been astronomical andI think it was, long-term, the
best decision I've made.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
That, yes, and again, that's an entrepreneur content
creator.
Starting over is a lot, but Ihave used the YouTube channel,
RBGear and FAR.
I've looked at your videos,I've used the content, I've used
the information and it is sovaluable and I'm glad you

(29:56):
decided to information.
It is so valuable and I'm gladyou decided to start over and
create this, because there's somuch there.
Now, when I asked you to be onthe show, I was thinking and we
said what are we going to talkabout?
And I'd like to have a littlebit of a focus for our listeners
.
Although we often go indifferent directions as things
flow.
I wanted to talk about somevaluable products.

(30:18):
Again, it's May people arestarting out their RV journey.
Let's talk about some of thegear that you have used, tested,
tinkered with, and I asked youto just come up with five of
them.
So pick one that you want tostart with and let's talk about
that gear for our RV listeners.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
So one of the things that is important to remember is
that oftentimes, a lot of thecontent creators it seems like
they are full-time RVers, and alot of the time when you're
investing into gear forfull-time RV travel, your budget
is a little bit higher, becauseyou're going to be using it
every day, you're going to beconstantly working on it, and so

(30:59):
things like a keyless RV doorlock are going to be super
valuable as a full-time RVer,but if you're going out for two
or three, four weekends a year,it may not be a good return on
investment for you to put akeyless door lock on your RV.
That's being used less oftenthan a full-time RVer, and so,
while a keyless door lock isfantastic, that wasn't one of

(31:21):
the things we're going to talkabout, but I just want to point
that out and that there's adifference between sometimes,
when you watch a content creatorfor ideas on new gear that's
coming out, make sure that yourealign your perspective as to
how much you're going to usesomething versus the cost
financial, energy, time comparedto what you're going to get out
of it, and so this first one isin that realm micro air easy
touch thermostat.
It's a wifi enabled thermostatthat allows me to connect the

(31:45):
thermostat in my RV to wifi andthen control it from my phone
wherever I am.
Now, the reason that I investedinto this piece of gear, and am
also recommending it, isbecause I can control the
thermostat anywhere that I'vegot, and that's super important
because we travel with a dog.
I can set it up to where itwill give me a notification if
the temperatures get outside ofa certain parameter, and then,

(32:08):
unlike some of the petmonitoring services that just
send you that notification, Ican actually go in and adjust
that setting.
So if the fan's not on, I canturn it on while we're over at a
sightseeing event or granite.
You have to have a connectionboth from the RV and to the RV,
but we're getting to the pointwhere that is far more common
than uncommon, and so installingthis thermostat and replacing

(32:32):
the factory thermostat with thismicro air easy touch, being
able to control it remotely,especially with having a pet in
the RV, was super beneficial.
And then the other really easything that we use on it all the
time is it's got.
You can set both a low end anda high end, so I can set it up
to where, if it's cold in themorning, the heat will turn on

(32:52):
and if it's hot in the afternoon, the air conditioning will turn
on, without me having tomanually switch from hot to cold
.
It just sets those parametersby itself and then you can set
it to switch automatically.
Because I know with our priorthermostat it was either hot and
a temperature or it was on coldand a temperature, and if you
wanted to switch it you had tobe there to do it, which also
means that, depending on whereyou're at and where the RV is

(33:14):
and solar exposure, you couldleave at 11 and come back at one
and have gone from needing alittle bit of heat to now I need
the air conditioning and again,especially if there's pets
involved, it's been a supervaluable piece of gear for us.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Now, before you go on and I think this is a great
piece of equipment I just wantto say that you do independent
testing.
People could see these videoson your YouTube channel, rv Gear
and Far.
I want to lead people to that,so they're independent.
You've tested these and againI'd like that.
You said not everybody needsall these products.

(33:49):
So for me, living in an RV Idon't have a pet I do set the
thermostat.
If it gets to a certaintemperature the air will kick on
.
There are times where I leavein the morning and it's 40
degrees and I need some heat.
By the afternoon I need the air.
It's not as important for me.
The thermostat that I haveworks fine.
So to your point and I'm notsure what those costs, I think

(34:12):
the cost that I think we're bothtrying to make is a lot of
people when they start RVing andthey hear about these products,
they go out and buy a bunch ofstuff, a bunch of gear, and then
they say it wasn't necessary,it costs a lot of money.
So that's, I think, the cautionhere.
But if you have a pet or I knowthere's older people that have
somebody that's in the RV morethat maybe can't control the

(34:36):
thermostat.
This sounds like a greatproduct.
Okay, what's next on your list?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
The next is ramp levelers.
There's a couple of companiesout there that make these, but
they're basically wedges that,especially if you don't have a
self-leveling system so we'retalking travel trailers and some
fifth wheels you roll up ontothis wedge and it allows you to
incrementally stop to get yourRV level.
We've all seen the stackingLego blocks by pretty much every

(35:02):
RV company out there makes themin every different color, and
those are fantastic.
I don't think that these wouldnecessarily suit those blocks,
like if you're going to haveonly one.
Those blocks are so versatilethat you should have those first
.
But these ramp style levelersare a unitasker.
There's really only one thingto use them for, but they do it
so well that it is somethingthat I would personally choose

(35:24):
to invest in.
And so it's basically a wedgethat you shove under the wheels,
you roll up onto it and then,when you're level, you stop, and
then you get out and you chalkthe other side, and it just has
significantly reduced the amountof time it takes us to level
because we don't have to go backand forth.
If we're off, we just roll alittle bit more.
We don't have to go all the wayoff.
Add another block, come back inand it's made the setup time

(35:47):
and the setup processsignificantly faster and
significantly easier.
The big brand name folks aregoing to recognize is Anderson.
Those are the red ones.
I personally use the Beach Laneones.
You can find them on Amazon andthey're black.
I did a video comparing the twoof them and ultimately they're
both good products, and nowthere's tons of other companies
that are coming out with thesame thing, because the merit of
that style of using a ramp toramp up and then wedge it in is

(36:11):
super, super convenient andsuper efficient, and so, yeah,
those are definitely an easyrecommendation for me of just
that style of leveler.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
And I watched that video and it was a very cool
video.
Now my question is and maybethis is a dumb question, but I
guess as a teacher I always saidthere's no dumb question-
Agreed.
So okay, so we're good.
So we have a class A, but it's40 foot and there's a leveling
system, but it's 22 years old,so you know what that looks like

(36:43):
.
It also has a.
It's a tripod leveling system.
So there are three.
Probably the dumbest idea I'veever seen.
There are times where we'veneeded to to get one of the
wheels up higher.
Would this work on a Class A tolevel a side?

(37:04):
It?

Speaker 2 (37:05):
depends.
So the wedges are rated atanywhere from 30 to 35,000
pounds.
So if you think about how muchweight is going to be on one
single wheel in the front, youprobably would be okay using
them and what it's hard to say,but what you might also, what
might also be more beneficialfor you, is to raise it up
higher than you need to go, addsome of those Lego blocks

(37:27):
underneath and then set it down,because having that hydraulic
lift system is super beneficialand being able to control it.
But we also know that theactual automatic leveling part
of it is not always accurate.
So what I would suggest for youis you definitely could.
I think that they would work.
Especially you have a lot ofweight.
You have a diesel pusher, so,yeah, the front wheels

(37:48):
definitely would be.
So it would also depend onwhich campsite you're at right,
like, do you need to raise therear or do you need to raise the
front?
So yeah, I definitely they're ano-brainer for fifth wheels and
travel trailers.
Motorhomes would be a more grayarea.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
It's a maybe, maybe, okay, we'll give it a maybe.
Maybe when we're at acampground together you could
try it, although, again, that RVis being sold because there's
hydraulic push a button andeverything's level Sounds like a
great idea.
Okay, so we have some moreproduct.
What would be or gear as youcall it, and I love that term

(38:24):
what would be your next piece ofequipment that people may or
may not need, but that you'vetested and you like?

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, so the next one is a gas stop.
So we hear countless.
Everywhere you go looking on RVforums, you're going to hear
about the necessity for a waterpressure regulator, knowing that
the pressure of the watersupply systems at RV parks
throughout the country varies sodrastically that you want to
make sure you protect that watercoming into the RV so you don't
blow anything up with pressurein the plumbing lines.

(38:54):
But we have not been hearingenough about propane systems and
it may be a diverging topic inthe coming years because a lot
of our viewers are now comingwithout any propane appliances
at all.
But the gas stop it looks likea gauge that would measure the
amount of propane in the tank.
Okay, but that is.

(39:16):
I think that is their majordownfall in the product design.
Is that?
It looks like that but actuallywhat it is?
A manual shutoff switch that ifthere's a catastrophic event of
too high of a flow, there's amanual piston that shuts and it
turns off the propane.
So you install this at thepropane tank either there's some
for onboard propane and thenalso for the portable propane

(39:37):
tanks and you stall at the tank,in between the tank and the RV,
and then, if there's acatastrophic event.
This manual shutoff turns offthe propane and I tested it.
I hooked up a sacrificialpropane hose to my outdoor
kitchen and I cut it with aknife and it shut it off.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
So it's kind of one of those things where you
question.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
So it's kind of one of those things where you
question why is this not coming?
Like you go to an RV show orthrough the campground, just
peek underneath you can seepropane lines running below the
frame or attached to the bottomof the frame and if there's a
catastrophic tire blowout orsomething and that starts
spinning around and you happento forget to turn off your
propane even if you're notrunning your fridge or anything

(40:34):
else like if there's stillpropane flowing through those
lines, there's a possibility fora catastrophic event and gas
stop is just a manual shutoffvalve, an event of a propane
emergency.
So I really like them.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yes, that seems like a simple solution.
So we don't hear aboutcatastrophic propane incidences
happening often, but when theydo, again it's catastrophic.
So why not use something thissimple?
You're right.
Why aren't they being put on atthe factory?
And again, a lot of the major Iknow with the Class A's they're

(41:11):
not really using propaneanymore.
Very rarely are they usingpropane.
But something I want to addhere and again, this is about
gear that is helpful and forsafety reasons.
There is a National Indoor RVCenters we are very much
connected with and they offer aproduct that's called ProTang

(41:34):
and it is tube-like.
Do you know what I'm talkingabout?
So, maybe you could talk more onit.
But the way I understand it,I've seen them, I've touched it
it's a tube-like thing.
It almost looks like a kid'sbig, thick, low-light type thing
and they are installed on thebottom of the RV and again, you
could probably talk more aboutthis.
And if there is heat before afull-on fire breaks out, these

(41:59):
things have a system to suppressthat heat and that fire in an
RV.
And I think that is justamazing because we've all seen
the RV that goes up very quickly.
So do you know about these?
Protang, can you talk Again?
We had talked about this.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I can't talk on them other than I've seen them at the
trade shows and know the basicpremise about it, that it's a
passive fire suppression systemthat needs to be custom
installed on each RV.
It's not something that you canorder and then install, because
it's like seamless gutters theyform it to fit the actual space
that they're installing it on,with the idea that when it gets
to a certain temperature or heatpoint, that tube melts and

(42:40):
releases the fire suppressioninside.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Okay.
And again, I've seen the actualtubes.
I've talked to Brett Davis fromNIRVC that has these and does
install them.
And again we talk about gear.
And what gear do you need andhow much money do you spend?
These types of things soundlike a great safety.
Now we're talking about safety.

(43:03):
Even the thermostat you'retalking about that's safety for
an animal that's left in the RV.
So these are some good productsfor people to think about.
Now I do want to take a littlebit of a break because, talking
about products and services, Ido want to take a little bit of
a break because, talking aboutproducts and services, I have
got to talk about the Open RoadsFuel Card.

(43:24):
I don't know if you're familiar, joshua, I didn't ask you, but
the Open Roads Fuel Card used tobe called TSD.
The card is free.
You could get the card.
It's free to get and then youhave an app on your phone and
you can find diesel fuel aroundthe country and you could see
what the price is.

(43:44):
I have saved anywhere from afew cents a gallon probably five
cents a gallon was the lowestall the way up to sometimes 80,
90 cents a gallon Now in ahundred gallon RV or even in
your truck, even in a pickuptruck that has diesel.
That's a lot of saving.

(44:04):
And Dan and I love this card.
We had it before we evenstarted our RV journey and it
has saved us so much money.
And that's Open Roads Fuel Cardand you could see the link in
the show notes.
It's openroadscom, but morerecently they came out with the
innovative tolling solutions andthat's through Open Roads as

(44:26):
well.
It covers all 48 states, costs$24 a year.
Best part the concierge service.
So if you get that toll fine,like I did in Texas, I did get
to the toll message soon enoughand I got a fine.
If you do get a fine, they havea concierge service that'll

(44:47):
help you deal with it, so youdon't have to worry about paying
these fines.
Now you want to talk abouttesting something.
Dan and I have had this passfor four months, probably more
than four months.
We're, I believe, the firstones to have the OpenRoads
innovative tolling and we haveused it and it has been amazing.

(45:10):
We could drive in our RV.
We can drive separate in ourcar or have the car attached to
the RV.
Either way, this toll passworks fantastic.
So I highly recommend thatinformation in the show notes.
But let's get back to you, josh, and what is your next product

(45:31):
you want to talk about?

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Yeah.
So these last two are notRV-specific gear and I can talk
about them simultaneously.
One is motion-activated LEDnightlights that come in a red
light.
Getting up in the middle of thenight and having to go to the
bathroom, it's going to happen,but having to turn on one of the
bright LED lights that comestandard in RVs is a bit more of

(45:52):
a jarring experience.
So these little motionactivated lights they only come
on when they sense motion andyou can set them up to have a
red light so it saves your nightvision.
It's less drastic but when onein the kitchen and one in the
bathroom.
So it gives me a walkway to getto the bathroom and it's just
been a little bit more pleasantof having than having to turn on
those extremely bright ledlights that come in all rvs and

(46:17):
just making it so that also,again going back to the pets
thing, the motion activatedmeans that it's not on all night
, so the dog doesn't have tosleep with the light on, but it
turns on when we walk past andneed to get to the bathroom, so
we're not stumbling over things,because oftentimes it happens
to be when we're doing anovernight boondocking spot on
the way to somewhere else.

(46:37):
That's when your schedule getsmessed up and you wake up a bit
more during the middle of night.
That's also going to be whenthere's stuff in the main living
area because you didn't unpack,you didn't set up, and so being
able to avoid those and nothave a tripping hazard or an
incident which then fallingsucks any time of day, but
especially in the middle of thenight, in the dark, and now
you're on the ground with nolight.
So these little motion LEDlights they're pretty

(46:59):
inexpensive and you can get twofor less than $30.
And then there's ones that youcan plug into 120 volt power If
you have an inverter, it'll workall the time or just when
you're plugged into shore power.
Or you can get battery poweredones and just remember to charge
them every two or three weeks.
I've had good success withthose.
And then the final one is RVs.
Take us to a lot of really coolplaces and there's a lot of
awesome scenery and experiencesthat we have.

(47:21):
But there's also not a wholelot of wall space to display
those memories, and so ourfamily has really enjoyed having
a digital photo frame set up inthe rig.
It gives it a nice dedicatedplace where we can send photos
or upload them.
A lot of them are Wi-Fi enabled, but they also have a spot
where you can put in a memorycard, so you don't have to be
connected to the internet forthem to work.

(47:43):
You can load the photos in fromprevious trips or family members
and you can set it up so it's aslideshow, and basically every
one minute, two minutes, fiveminutes, whatever you set the
settings at, it'll rotatethrough and display a new photo,
and so it's a really cool wayto put up all those photos in a
way that doesn't take up a wholelot of real estate on the walls

(48:04):
, and or trying to get picturesshipped to us as we're traveling
through the country is a bit ofa harder thing than living in a
sticks and bricks with a solidaddress, as well than living in
a sticks and bricks with a solidaddress.
It also has a timer function,so it's not blasting through the
rv all night as well, and it'sreally just added a lot of value
being able to send those photosof our travels back to the

(48:26):
photo frame and have them makethe space a bit more homey wow,
and so I gotta admit I waslaughing when you were talking
about the night light and tryingto get up and tripping and
falling on your face.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I I think a lot of us can relate to that.
The more I would try to get upout of bed and work my way to
the kitchen in the dark, thequieter I tried to be, the
louder it was.
So the tripping, the falling,the whole nine yards.
And yes, exactly, and you gotto laugh sometimes because

(49:00):
you're in such a tight space.
And now here you are fallingand making noise and waking up
everybody.
Now the digital frame.
I've seen them many timesbefore, but I never thought
about that in the RV.
It's a great idea.
Dan and I together have fivekids and nine grandkids.
Where do you put all thesepictures?

(49:21):
I'd love that as a solution,great solution.
Now, all of these products thatyou have tested, and more, are
on the YouTube channel, rv Gearand Bar.
So you talk about fireextinguishers, how to check them
, anti-theft systems, carryingbikes, maintaining your water

(49:42):
heater.
That's just some of the wealthof information I found on your
YouTube channel.
So I encourage our listeners tocheck out your YouTube channel,
which is RV Gear and Bar and Iwill put that in the show notes
and we're not done with you yet,but I do want to let our
listeners know is there anywhereelse they can get to?

(50:05):
You did say you know all yourdifferent channels, so is there
one central location that we cansend the website RV Gear and
Far will get you links to all ofit.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
But Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, all
the social media platforms, RVgear and far spelled out A-N-D.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Okay, good to know and I will put that again in the
show notes for people to getall of this information.
But now it's time for aquestion of the week, and the
question of the week is broughtto you by Open Roads.
Innovative Tolling Again, thattoll pass.
I talked about all 48 safe.
You have to check this tollpass out All of the information

(50:46):
in the show notes.
Today's question came fromChristian W of Pottstown, pa,
and I met him and his familystanding in line at the ice
cream shop.
Yes, I needed an ice creamsundae and a lot of times people
stop me because the Jeep hasMontana license plates.

(51:08):
I could talk about that inanother time.
But he said hey, are you fromMontana?
No, we have a business there.
That's where our RV and Jeepare registered.
But anyway, we got talking andthey're going full time Now.
It just seems like the theme ofthis RV Life podcast episode of
the Almost Impossible Questionsand between you and I, joshua,

(51:34):
maybe we could come up with someanswers for Christian and his
family and the question was howmuch stuff should we put into a
storage unit in the event thatthe full-time RV thing doesn't
work out?
Joshua, I'm going to throw thatto you first.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Well, thanks for that Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Thank you, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
I think the most pressing question is what kind
of ice cream did you get?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Okay, so I got a chocolate ice cream with walnuts
, cherries and whipped cream.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Okay, okay.
So I think I'm going to be alittle bit of an outlier, in
that we knew that RVingfull-time was not like the next
entire life chapter.
It was a means, to an end, offinding the next home base.
We also had some benefits withthe military and we ended up
storing a bunch of our stuff inlong-term storage for the past

(52:31):
two and a half years.
I also think there's a lot ofvalue in not selling the farm
and getting rid of the cow andjust to go to try this out.
I think there's a differencebetween someone who's never RV'd
and is going full-time andsomeone who has RV'd for the
past 10 years and then wants togo travel more and using the RV
to do that.
They've got a bit moreknowledge of what's coming and

(52:52):
what it's going to be like.
I don't know.
There is no answer to thisquestion because it's going to
depend on the people.
It's going to depend on theirsituation and their chapter of
life.
So I guess maybe what I'll dois just throw out another option
of something that I've comeacross full-timers doing that is
a blend and a stepping stone isthat they take all of their

(53:12):
personal belongings the photos,the antiques, the family
keepsakes and they put those ina storage unit and then they've
rented out short-term rental oftheir house for the next six
months to see whether full-timeRV life is something that they
want to continue long-term.
And then they went ahead andthey sold the house nine, 12
months later.
It's a bit more complicated.

(53:33):
There's a little bit more risk,I'm sure, involved in that, and
also you wouldn't have anymoney from the sale of a house
to then invest into an RV.
So there's a lot of levers topull in ways we could go about
this, but maybe just throw thatout, as another option is maybe
you can stair-step yourself intoit, rent out your house and
then also have that option thatif you don't like it you can go
back.
Because as many case scenariosas we've seen of people that

(53:56):
have never RV'd before, theynever even owned a pickup truck,
but they bought a one-tondually and a 45-foot fifth wheel
and they just sold everythingand hit the road and are loving
it.
There's also the other end ofpeople that like, ah, this
really wasn't what we expectedand we'd actually prefer to just
go out for two weeks at a timeand then come home.
And so the hard part.

(54:18):
There's no easy way to do ituntil you do it, because if you
rent an RV from one of the RVshare crowd-sharing platforms,
it's an awesome way to check outRVs and experience the
lifestyle a little bit.
But if you've never RV'd before,there's such a steep learning
curve that if you rent an RV fortwo weeks, you're going to
spend 10 out of 14 days justlearning how to RV and not

(54:42):
really focusing on what RVing isallowing you to go, do and so
packing up the RV with yourstuff and then unpacking it.
There's a lot of work inrenting an RV for two weeks that
you don't own, and so it'sreally hard.
It's a good step, but it's alsoreally hard to correlate that
experience to what it's going tobe like if you are full time.
So again, you're giving me thetrifecta of impossible questions

(55:03):
today, because I don't thinkthere's an answer.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
No, there's not.
And here's the thing.
It's funny because when wetalked about doing the podcast,
I said, hey, let's talk aboutproducts.
That was pretty much the extentof our conversation.
This is just how the RV Lifepodcast goes and it just so
happened that there was this isthe third almost impossible
question to answer, but again itgives people thinking points.

(55:28):
For me it was a littledifferent In some ways.
For me I have a littledifferent take on it.
And again, no perfect answerhere.
I would love for our RV Lifepodcast listeners to chime in,
go to Instagram and Facebook RVLife podcast and chime in on
this.
For Dan and I we had downsizedand moved out to Las Vegas, but

(55:53):
we still had a house.
So we did the storage thing, wedid the RV thing.
We had decided we were going toget an RV.
Four months later I had neverbeen RVing.
Like seven days in an RV was myexperience.
So Sam said let's selleverything and go RVing and I
left him thinking he was joking,only to find out he was serious

(56:14):
.
And so four months of research,watching the YouTube channels,
thinking you know what you'redoing was our experience level
and education level, and so wetook a lot of stuff and put it
in a storage unit.
A lot of that stuff includedstuff that was the kids or

(56:35):
things that we thought the kidsmight someday want.
I got to be totally honest.
We had a storage unit.
We needed one big enough and itcost $100 a month.
So after 24 months that's$2,400, right, and you go in and
you go through the stuff youput in storage.

(56:55):
I could have bought most of thisstuff two times over.
So that you have to figure outtoo and again, it is an
individual decision.
Now I did have, like you said,the memorabilia and things like
that.
I also found where a lot ofstuff that I was keeping and
thought I wanted and somedaysomebody would want I ended up

(57:18):
getting rid of because nobodywanted it.
So there's again those thingsto consider.
Is it worth 50 to $100 a month?
It may be.
You may have expensive pots andpans and whatever.
But again, a lot of times for me, I just knew that I could have
bought most of that stuff anumber of times over.

(57:39):
I just knew that I could havebought most of that stuff a
number of times over.
We did sell the house, so wedidn't have a house to rent to
keep some of that stuff in.
So there are a lot of optionsand I don't know that there's
any one answer.
And a lot of times you say Iwish I had done that after.
That's the answer to that.
A lot of times you say I wish Ihad done that after.

(57:59):
That's the answer to that.
But if our RV community andyour community wants to chime in
, that would be great to heardifferent thoughts on this third
impossible question of thisepisode.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
And I'll throw in something that we did.
U-haul brand has their ownstorage units,
climate-controlled indoorstorage units, and we actually
found one that had asecond-story storage unit.
So you had to have one of thosemovable ladders and you move it
up there.
But it was a five by five.
So it was perfect to keep ourphotos and all of those

(58:34):
irreplaceable things in aclimate-controlled area.
But we found it less expensivebecause it was on the second
floor.
We had to take this ladder toget the things up there, but for
us it's not a unit that we weregetting in every other month,
like maybe once a year, to gograb something for Christmas
decorations when we're at myfolks' house.
So that was a really good wayand I think it started out,

(58:55):
patty, at $6 a month.
I think it ended up closertowards $10 a month.
But because it was inconvenient.
And on that second story, butto us it didn't matter, that
meant no one's going to messwith it and it's climate
controlled and indoor storage.
So that's another thing to lookout is maybe if you find one of
those large indoor U-Haul orother brands of storage places,

(59:16):
they might have some more quoteinconvenient places to store
things.
But that's perfect, for whatwe're trying to do is we're just
trying to long-term store asmall amount of keepsakes,
because I could have left stuffat my parents' house or the
in-laws, but it would have beenoutside in the garage and it
would have been hot and cold allsummer, all winter, and so that
was a really good solution,inexpensive solution that worked

(59:36):
well for us.
That I'll throw out as anotheralternative.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Right, and I'm going to add you're talking about
pictures and that was somethingwhen we were going through the
house and again, dan's kids, mykids, five kids and grandkids,
there were boxes and boxes ofphotos.
And anybody today that's notdoing digital photos I don't
know what it's like to print apicture these days but also to

(01:00:03):
take the photos that you have,the old photos and have them
digitized or digitize themselvesand then, like you said, you
could use that photo frame andeven run some of those older
photos through.
So there's another solution forpeople, because how many boxes
of photos are we storing?
Good, they're stored.
Okay, we've helped solve thepossible questions, thank you.

(01:00:26):
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(01:02:16):
How easy is that?
Now, joshua, unfortunately wehave to end the podcast.
We have to bring it to an end,but I do want to thank you so
much for all of your incredibleinformation, helping to answer
the impossible question today,and the wealth of information

(01:02:36):
that you have both on yourYouTube channel, rb gear and far
and that is spelled out whenyou go to RB gear and farcom, as
well as your content creator,mastermind group, and again, all
that will be in the show notes.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yeah, absolutely, patty.
I really enjoyed this, andthank you for having me, and
please be sure to send myregards and my well wishes to
Dan.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Thank you.
I appreciate that and for ourlisteners, you can reach out to
Joshua directly.
You can reach out to me.
We love hearing from you guys,so don't be shy about reaching
out with comments, questions,thoughts and anything you have
on your mind.
Reach out to us.
And on that I'm going to sayyou've been listening to the RV

(01:03:28):
Life Podcast.
I'm Patti Hunt and I want toremind you to have a great rest
of today and an even better daytomorrow.