Finding places that aren't always places using What3Words
With a map of the entire globe What3Words is a very unique way to pinpoint everywhere on earth and share that location with friends, family and emergency service providers. This app can also be very helpful to RVers and campers for finding these places to make our lifestyle more convenient and safer. We speak with What 3 Words to find more details and how we can benefit from this free tool.
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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV Podcast episode 241
Mark Ferrell
Welcome to the weekly podcast, all about turning the great American RV adventure into Stressless camping. Each week we explore tips, tricks, ideas, and destinations, and talk to the happiest campers in the RV world. Pull up a seat at the campfire as we enjoy some Stressless camping.
Peggy Barthel
Welcome to the Fireplace <laugh>.
Tony Barthel
I'm Tony.
Peggy Barthel
I'm Peggy.
Tony Barthel
And we are two RV industry veterans who travel part-time In a small trailer with a fireplace Looking to share big adventures and help you with great tips, tricks and discounts.
Peggy Barthel
It's kind of chilly and rainy today, so we're glad that we have hookups and we can just, even if it was just the picture of fire, it's just kind of fun to look at. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
Well today is interesting because it's a all workday, so we're just sitting in the trailer working on different stuff. Just reflecting on what a fantastic week it was last week with
Peggy Barthel
Oh yes.
Tony Barthel
Such wonderful people. I mean to all of you who joined us at In Court site in Quartzite in our gathering. Thank you. Thank you. It was just so great to spend the week with you.
Peggy Barthel
It really was.
Tony Barthel
If you don't know, last week we had a gathering in quartzite, so we were all off the grid for a week. In fact, we're gonna do it again next year and call it the solar Safari
Peggy Barthel
If you say so, <laugh>, I still think you're discouraging some people from coming. Alright,
Tony Barthel
Well, we'll anyway, we'll talk about it. But we spent a week, we got to go to some neat places in quart site, including the desert bar and I'll put the video to that in the email newsletter that we send out every week. And uh, just had a great time off the grid. The food was remarkable. The, we did the Engle Bowl 17 inch oven challenge <laugh> and we also had people doing these total impromptu
Peggy Barthel
Potlucks. Yeah. Potlucks. You know, we said we'd have one or two potlucks and then one day we just said, somebody said, oh, I'm going to make this for breakfast. And someone else said, I'm gonna make that for breakfast. And I said, okay, breakfast potluck. And then we started spreading the news and people's eyes got big and said, well, okay. And the way that we came together and had a potluck we weren't expecting to have a couple of times was just remarkable.
Tony Barthel
We also found that Erin and Christine's side deck on their dune sport toy Hauler makes a great banquet table.
Peggy Barthel
It does. It was a great, a great place to lay out the food so we could use our tables for actual eating and not spilling plates of food all over the desert.
Tony Barthel
Hey, you gotta feed the coyotes
Peggy Barthel
<laugh> or the camp dogs?
Tony Barthel
Oh, the camp dogs. Oh yeah. There were a lot of dogs there too. It was a good vacation for them too. So anyway. Yeah,
Peggy Barthel
It was just really a, well, for one thing it was a fantastic week. We only had one kind of ugly day and the weather was perfect and spectacular and so it was kind of a happy place.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, it was one of my favorite camp experiences ever, honestly.
Peggy Barthel
And it reminded me that I wanted to share a friend of mine, Sarah, her son John publishes LB 9 0 8, which is the Long Beach, California sort of city magazine. And Sarah shared LB 9 0 8, the January issue with me. And in John's publisher's note, it was really, really great what he was saying about New Year's resolutions and how we all make 'em and we all break 'em and everything. And, and he recommended that instead of like making a New Year's resolution, it's kind of a nice thing to not make a resolution to achieve something, but to find somewhere, somewhere that you could make your happy place.
Peggy Barthel
And they had asked their listeners, you know, where was their happy place? And the list of places he said kind of follows with resolutions a little bit, places related to fitness related to learning, related to being outdoors, related to giving back.
Peggy Barthel
And so he recommended that instead of just making a resolution, for example, don't resolve to lose weight for however many years in a row, Woohoo. Resolve to find your fitness happy place in Long Beach. Well, or anywhere. This is what he said. Of course. 'cause he is in Long Beach. Yeah. Don't just resolve to learn something new proactively find the place that you can go like a favorite library or museum or something like that. If you are resolving to watch less TV and get off your phone, maybe find your favorite park or your favorite beach or your favorite desert <laugh> and just spend time in a happy place doing happy things.
Peggy Barthel
And you know, even if you don't lose as much weight as you thought, if you find a favorite fitness, you know, some parks have those like obstacle course things that you can go through and maybe you'll end up more fit even if you don't end up losing the weight you wanted to lose. And if you're making progress, you're not failing. <laugh>,
Tony Barthel
That's a, a pretty great sentiment. I really liked it when I read it too.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. So thanks John for pointing out that resolutions can be ways of finding a happy place rather than just be a goal in itself. Yeah,
Tony Barthel
That's true. Well, last week I said that we were completely off the grid for the whole week,
Peggy Barthel
Right? Yes.
Tony Barthel
We never fired up a generator or anything. We completely relied on our lithium and battery system from a B, CF fitters. I will say it was almost the perfect conditions for that. Right. Yeah. We didn't have to run the air 'cause it wasn't that hot. We did run starlink, which is kind of a, a pig. Other than that it was, you know, all solar and battery for the whole week and it just worked perfectly. And, and other people there at the gathering also have systems from A, B, C Upfitters.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. And again, they just work. They don't cause fids or headaches or nightmares. If you're looking to get a great solar and lithium power solution for your rv, I can't be more pleased with what we have in ours. And it came from our friends at A BC Upfitters. And you can ask them questions or find out more by just giving them a call at (574) 333-3225.
Tony Barthel
That's 5 7 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 5. Or just visit them on the internet. We have a link in our show notes. Our show notes are there on stressless camping.com under the podcast tab. And you'll see a link to a BC Outfitters. And it's just, it was a remarkable week showing how far all this technology has come. We don't worry about plugging something in. We charged, uh, our tool batteries, we charged our mic batteries, <laugh>.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
We charged our computer batteries all with this
Peggy Barthel
System and our star link system. Yeah. Kept everything going.
Tony Barthel
So again, just a great system and you can get one too if you like. 5, 7, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2 5. I will also say I wanna update you all on the geyser system shower, you know, the shower water device that we talked about a couple of weeks ago. We use that the whole week.
Peggy Barthel
Yes.
Tony Barthel
Our trailer has a 54 gallon fresh water tank and typically with both of us taking a daily shower, we get, eh, maybe four days
Peggy Barthel
Probably. Yeah. Usually about four days.
Tony Barthel
Right. With dishes and all of that stuff. This time we arrived at this campground. So after the week in the desert, we then came to a full hookup campground. 'cause we wanted to, you know, dump and all that stuff. We arrived here with about
Peggy Barthel
Probably a quarter tank of our water left.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, yeah. You know, the thing only has those four
Peggy Barthel
Dots. It only has Yeah. One third dots. But we used it on a third for maybe the last half a day. Yeah. So that's a guess that it's about a quarter. But the fact is we did not run out of water in seven days and we used to run out of water in four.
Tony Barthel
Right. And the the flip side of that is we also didn't fill our gray tank as quickly. Well
Peggy Barthel
Right. <laugh>.
Tony Barthel
So, you know, it just, that was a remarkable system that we really are pleased with that Geyer system too. So, I mean, this boondocking it, it's amazing how five years ago we had to buy generators. Yep. And we, we still had our propane fridge in that first mini light
Peggy Barthel
And we still had those two six foot batteries. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And it was like, ooh, I dunno, one cloudy day and, and you know, we're outta luck <laugh>. Yep. And in this case we had a, a whole day of kind of rainy, cloudy Yeah. Miserable weather, but it didn't matter. I mean, we were, I think the lowest we got at any point on any given day was about 60% state of charge. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So we could have gone a couple of days, could
Peggy Barthel
Have gone a couple days and would've been fine. But
Tony Barthel
Yeah, it's just, uh, what boondocking is just getting better and better with the power package and with the Geyer system. And it's just, I'm pretty impressed.
Peggy Barthel
So you may be hearing flying things stop
Peggy Barthel
Flying things of both varieties, airplanes and birds. Yeah. Outside our window. We're trying to pause when we hear a loud airplane. But if you're hearing it, sorry, that's just life in the city which we're in. Yeah. Because we're actually in Phoenix. But while we were in court site, we met, well we didn't just meet Tony and Grace, we've known Tony and Grace for a while, but they introduced us to their friend Joy. And Joy introduced me to an app called what? Three Words.
Peggy Barthel
And we used it successfully in having, you know, showing people where we were having our meetup because it's just in the middle of the desert, so there's no street address. We were able to get in touch with what three words and got to talk with Marcus Taylor and well, let's hear more about the app. What three words. Well, today we are very privileged to be speaking with Marcus Taylor. Marcus. Uh, good morning from here, but good afternoon in London.
Peggy Barthel
We are take talking to Marcus about what, three words and No, I'm not asking a question. I am describing a service called what? Three words. Marcus, thank you for spending some time with us today.
Marcus Taylor
No worries. It's, it's lovely to be speaking to you. I'm very jealous of, uh, the, the weather that you'll be having compared to what I'm experiencing in London <laugh>. But it's, uh, yeah, it's, it's lovely to be speaking with you guys
Tony Barthel
For our audience. What is what, three words?
Marcus Taylor
Yeah, great question. So what three words is a way of finding any precise location on Earth using just three words. So I don't know if you've ever experienced any issues with street address. I mean, you might have had a street address take you to the wrong place. You might have had a absolutely a delivery go to maybe a neighbor's house instead of your own. Um, or if you are an RV or a camper, you might recognize that there's, there's huge swats of, of this planet that don't have an address.
Marcus Taylor
So if, if you are in the middle of a desert or on a beach or upper mountain, there's no sort of, um, addressing system for those places. And so what we've done is we've divided the whole world into a grid of 10 foot by 10 foot squares. And then each one of those squares has a unique, what three words address. So I kind of think of it like a GPS coordinate where GPS coordinates, you've got long strings of numbers assigned to any precise point on earth and they're fantastically precise.
Marcus Taylor
Uh, but what we've done is instead of using numbers, we're using words which are a bit easier to communicate, a bit easier to remember and, and just a bit more human friendly. And so yeah. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> three words for any point on earth.
Peggy Barthel
So they're just random, absolutely. Randomly chosen words in groups of three for any 10 by 10 foot square on earth. One of my friends said she found the location of her living room and of her sewing room. And I forget living room had the word party in it, and the sewing room had like under and disaster or something like that.
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>. And she said,
Peggy Barthel
I don't think it's that random. Really? <laugh>
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>. Yeah. I think as, as random as they in fact are, people always try and read meaning into Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but they, yeah, they are, they are just words assigned to, to places. And there's 57 trillion squares which cover the entire planet, land and sea. Wow. And, uh, so it's, it's, it's an absolutely, um, well, it's an incredible, uh, system that the team have developed. We, I'm just lucky enough to be able to tell people about it and share interesting ways in which you can use what, three words.
Peggy Barthel
So are you part of the development team?
Marcus Taylor
Oh, good question. Yeah. No. So I'm, I'm on our US partnerships team. So despite being based in London, I I spend a lot of time in the US and my job is really fun because I basically get to introduce people to our technology and work across the broadest range of industries from working with state parks or big music festivals or, uh, tourist attractions and showing them what three words and showing them how they can, they can sort of implement it in, in whatever they do. Um, and often that'll be people using our free app or using, uh, the what three words website, which is also free.
Marcus Taylor
And often that'll be people building what three words into, uh, a, a product that they have. So a typical example would be, last year we worked with California State Parks and we partnered with California State Parks. And they've actually, uh, built what, three words into their app. So you can go into the official California state Parks app, and every, every campground, every, uh, public toilet, every park entrance has a the what, three words address listed so you can find all of them with what, three words.
Marcus Taylor
Okay.
Tony Barthel
Huh. Interesting. Now how does somebody, your regular camper or Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> whatever, use what three words?
Marcus Taylor
Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's definitely something we should cover. So I'd say most people will first encounter what three words with our free app. So if you go, uh, onto the App Store or, or Google Play Store, you can download what, three words and it's completely free. And you'll open up the what three word app. And what you'll see is, is a map with our, uh, 10 foot by 10 foot grid of squares on top. And you can click on any of those squares and find whatever the, the what three words address is. Uh, there's a few functions in there that, uh, are sort of, uh, really great to play around with.
Marcus Taylor
And, and then you can start using it in your daily life. You can save what three words address is. So let's say you were, uh, you parked your RV in a really great spot with a beautiful view, and you thought, Hey, we've gotta come back here. At some point you could just find your, what, three words address hit save, and then that's, you can come back whenever you want. You've got the exact three word address for that point on Earth. And
Peggy Barthel
When you save that point, you actually get to rename it so that you, if you save three different spots, you might say, never go here. Or <laugh>
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>,
Peggy Barthel
This is where we met Bill, or something like that. <laugh>.
Marcus Taylor
So, so, so not quite. So the, uh, the three words for each point on earth are already fixed and decided. So for example, let's say right now I was sat in Apple lamp spoon and that was the, what, three words address for my exact location. Uh, then that is fixed and it, it will never change.
Peggy Barthel
No, I,
Marcus Taylor
Oh, sorry, go on.
Peggy Barthel
I'm sorry. What I meant was you, when you save your location, you actually can also kind of write a note, I guess not change the name.
Marcus Taylor
Oh, yes. Yeah. Okay. Of course. Yeah. But change
Peggy Barthel
To change. Put the reason why you saved it. That's what I should have said.
Marcus Taylor
Yes. Yeah, of course. Yes. I, I wanted to clarify because, you know, sometimes people will think, oh, well, can I choose the words? And, and it's a fixed system. No.
Peggy Barthel
'cause you might accidentally choose the words of another location, <laugh>.
Marcus Taylor
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Uh, you mentioned before we jumped on that a friend introduced you to what, three words? And have you guys downloaded the app and used it at all yet? Oh,
Tony Barthel
Absolutely.
Peggy Barthel
We sure have. Yeah. Oh, great. We used it right away. I, uh, um, downloaded it right away. And then we were out here scouting where we thought we might have our meetup. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And I found a location and I was actually also saving the locations of where we would turn off the highway and where we would, so I had about 10 locations saved. And then Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> in the long run, the person who got here first and went to that spot, some other people had started camping there, so she had to find us a new location anyway.
Marcus Taylor
Of course. Yeah. Yeah. That's a shame. But she got us
Peggy Barthel
To the general area, so.
Marcus Taylor
Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure that happens a lot that you guys plan to park somewhere. Sure. And someone has, uh, snuck it, snuck it in front of you.
Tony Barthel
So we had first learned about it because of a medical emergency, our emergency responders adopting what, three words? Or is that something that's part of what you get to do?
Marcus Taylor
I think what three words is being adopted? Well, it is driving a lot of momentum in the us uh, with public services. So we now have a, what three words enabled a 9 1 1 center in pretty much every state across the us. Oh, okay. So wherever you are, uh, whatever state you are in, there will be at least 1 9 1 1 Center that's already enabled. And that's really sort of amazing because we only started sort of seeing emergency services take this on in the last few years, uh, in the uk, what three words is already sort of really widely adopted and well known by emergency services.
Marcus Taylor
85% of emergency services in the UK are set up to use this. Um, and we're now sort of seeing that same momentum in the US where emergency services are using this. And honestly, we get stories all the time of how, what three words has been used in an emergency.
Marcus Taylor
So just this week there was a incident in Virginia where a, a poor chap fell 40 feet down a manhole Oh geez. And was stuck. Fortunately, the emergency team responding said, have you got your phone on you? Can you give us the, what, three words location of where you are because you are down a manhole? You know, we can't, we can't find where you are. And he was able to give them the, what, three words address. And that was, uh, something that assisted them in, in rescuing him. And so we, wow. We just get these stories coming out all the time of people using the, what, three words app to, uh, to, to help emergency responders find them.
Peggy Barthel
Was the app developed by emergency services of some sort or was it like some guys fooling around and like, Hey, what a fun idea.
Marcus Taylor
<laugh> <laugh>? No, it was, it was not developed, uh, with the emergency sort of use case in mind. Uh, that's just something that's proved to be very useful. Uh, we've actually got a really, really fun origin story. So our, our founder Chris, used to work in the music business and his biggest issue working in the music industry was getting his bands to the right place for their gigs. So he'd, he'd have an issue all the time. A band would sort of ring em up and say, Hey Chris, uh, I think we've sound checked at the wrong person's wedding, for example.
Marcus Taylor
'cause people were going through the wrong location. Oh. All sorts of just these, these crazy scenarios. And so he said, okay, I've got a solution for this. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give all of my bands, uh, GPS coordinates for where they need to go for their gigs.
Marcus Taylor
Uh, and he thought, this is perfect. They can't go wrong. They've got the GPS coordinate. And of course, inevitably it all, it always did go wrong. And he has, he, he, he tells these very funny stories of, uh, bands sort of, uh, going to a location an hour north of Rome instead of an hour south of Rome because they've got one digit wrong in the GPS coordinates. Right. And so, uh, they said to him that, Chris, we can't do this. We don't wanna use a GPS coordinates. This, this just isn't working. So he then got together with a friend of his who is a mathematician, and he said, look, there's got to be a way that we can communicate about precise locations, uh, in a human friendly way, you know, in the language that, that humans can, can understand and, and use on a day-to-day basis.
Marcus Taylor
And they came up with this idea of using words instead of numbers as, as sort of a signifier for a precise location. And it's just, it just sprung forward from there. So, uh, yeah, definitely not an, an origin story, uh, from the emergency world. It just happened to prove a very useful tool for emergency services. Sure.
Peggy Barthel
And as you said, especially for people who are not on a street, not at an address Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> people at are boondocking or hiking or something like that. Such a good,
Tony Barthel
I could see this like if you're, you know, on a gathering with other people, for example, your family with kids and you're at some amusement park, you could use it to say, well, meet me at, you know, oh sure. Whatever, three words. And that could help even in that situation, let alone a medical emergency. And then, right. So it, it seems like there's a lot of use cases where this really could be tremendously beneficial.
Peggy Barthel
One of our friends who's meeting up with us here, he and his wife have been out for quite some time and they made a friend Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And that friend was camping somewhere near a medical emergency, and she posted on a Facebook group, this emergency vehicle has, it took them like 45 minutes of going to every camper in the area and saying, is John in there having a hard, you know, like they couldn't find the right camper. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And so she encouraged people to use what, three words and her daughter's in, in Canada, and she's a dispatcher in Canada for emergency vehicles, and said they use that quite extensively.
Peggy Barthel
And I had never heard of it. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So I don't know if any of our emergency people use it, but I've been using the heck out of it to show people Yeah. How to find me here. <laugh>,
Marcus Taylor
Of course. Yeah. Often one of the first ways people encounter what three words is they've heard of a public safety incident where someone couldn't be found in an emergency. They were in the middle of the desert, or they were hiking up a trail and they managed to use what three words to rescue that person. And so people will often say, right, I'll download the what, three words app so I have it in case I'm, you know, Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> in an emergency. And then something wonderful happens is then they realize there's loads of actually really cool things you can do with the what, three words app if you're an outdoorsy person.
Marcus Taylor
Yes. Like, uh, sharing beautiful viewpoints with your friends, or saving great places to park your rv. Um, arranging meetups at, at interesting spots. So we'll often see that sort of progression of, uh, downloading the What Through Words app, because it's really useful in an emergency. And then discovering lots of cool stuff that you can do with it.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. As you said, it doesn't have to be emergency use. You know, people, people download it thinking they'll use it in emergencies, and then they meet their kids in amusement parks and <laugh>
Marcus Taylor
Oh, ly. And meet
Peggy Barthel
Up, up in the desert
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>. And, and that's, that's, that's one of the funnest parts of my job is then introducing what three words to, uh, businesses or organizations who can use it for those fun, fun ways. There's, uh, stadiums, for example, there's a stadium called the La Coliseum in Los Angeles. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And if you look them up on Google, the pin just drops in the middle of the stadium, which makes sense, but it doesn't tell you sort of, right, where should I park my car? Or where can I pick up my tickets? Or, you know, what entrance am I coming in? So if you go onto the La Coliseum's website, they've added the, what three words, addresses for all of those places on their website.
Marcus Taylor
So you can find where you're supposed to park your car, or you can find, uh, where to pick up, uh, some merchandise before your concert or, or, or the game that you're gonna, so you are exactly right outside of the emergency services use case. Um, there's all of these sort of really, really cool ways that people can, can use what three words, just day to day.
Peggy Barthel
That makes me think of, you know, when we go to events that are in like county fairgrounds, for example. Oh, for sure. Those fairgrounds might have 10 entrances, but you're only supposed to use that one entrance. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And you might drive miles and miles around the fairgrounds until you
Marcus Taylor
Flood the right
Peggy Barthel
Gate to go through. Yeah.
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>. Yeah. And it can be a real pain. Uh, we also worked with the Ann Arbor, our art fair in Michigan, uh, last year, who did the exact same thing. And they, they were so, so proactive with it. I mean, they shared what three words addresses for, uh, wheelchair rental points and sort of, uh, uh, shuttle bus tours where you could tour all of the different, um, art sites. They used what, three words for all of their parking and all of their music stages. So if you wanted to go watch, uh, a gig, you could, you could do that as well. So yeah, big events is a, is a great way that people use what, three words.
Marcus Taylor
And sometimes I get to go to the events as well, so I'm more than happy to, ah, <laugh>
Peggy Barthel
To help out <laugh>, you have to test it, right?
Marcus Taylor
Oh yeah. I think exactly.
Tony Barthel
I think we need to advocate to the Albuquerque balloon fiesta people to use it. Yes. Because that is a huge, physically huge event spread out all over. And there's all these different aspects of it that I think would truly be helped by what, three words?
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. The bus stops, we almost Oh yeah. We were, we took a bus every day and not until the very last day that I realized we were, we always got on the right bus, but we were always actually standing at the temp next to our bus stop. Mm-Hmm. <laugh>. We were standing at the wrong bus stop every time.
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>. Oh my gosh. And, and this is what I often say is that people will often look at addressing and not realize that there is tons and tons of problems with it. And in actual fact, mm-Hmm. <affirmative> that there, there could be another solution that could be really, really handy. I mean, street addresses were designed for delivering mail on horse and car, you know, a couple of hundred years ago. And now, right. We're in this mod modern world where we're doing all of these different things and it doesn't sort of tend to, to deliver on, on everything that we want.
Marcus Taylor
So, so what three words sort of fits in alongside street addresses as another tool you can use for navigating around this crazy world <laugh>? It's
Tony Barthel
Unusual in that it's a very simple solution to a complicated problem. Mm-Hmm. Usually it's quite the reverse <laugh>. Mm-Hmm.
Marcus Taylor
<affirmative>. Yeah. I think that's a great way of putting it.
Tony Barthel
So does what three words work with map? Like let's say I have an address, a place. Does it then work with things like Apple Maps and Google Maps on your phone or with GPSs if you have 'em in your vehicle?
Marcus Taylor
Yeah. Great question. Really great question. So if you had a, what, three words address, and let's say you wanted to tell a bunch of your buddies, this is where we're gonna meet up this weekend, and it's a spot in the middle of the desert or, uh, in, in a campground in the middle of a forest, you could share that what three words address with them. And when your, your buddies click on that, what three words address, let's say you've sent it in, in a group chat. Uh, it'll either open the what, three words app, if they have it downloaded, or it'll open what three words.com.
Marcus Taylor
And once they've done that, there's a little function that says Navigate and they'll press that function and then they can send that. What three words address to any of those platforms you just mentioned? So Apple Maps, Google Maps, ways, what three words can be sent to any of those?
Marcus Taylor
The idea is we don't see ourselves as a navigation platform. We are just an addressing system with an app. And we want you to be able to use what three words with, with any of your favorite navigation platforms. The other really cool thing, which is something that we've done in the last few years, is actually partner with a load of car companies, um, who have navigation built in. And their drivers wanna be able to put what three words addresses into the car. So, uh, today if you get into a Mercedes-Benz or a Land Rover or a Subaru, you can speak or type a, what three words address into the car.
Marcus Taylor
Just like you were saying, Starbucks, you can say, take me to filled count soap, and then you can, the car can navigate to that exact point. So that's a really, really cool way of, um, navigating around with what three words addresses.
Tony Barthel
Huh. That's really cool. Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
That's great.
Tony Barthel
Is there anything we haven't asked that we, that should be shared with our audience?
Marcus Taylor
Well, a question that I'd have, and I've got a few ideas of this myself, is you guys are the camping and RV experts. I just wondered what sort of, and you've covered a few already, what sort of, uh, incidents do you have or, or, or day-to-day occurrences do you have where addressing becomes a real problem? Or you could think that what three words would be a really handy solution, whether you are boondocking or you are in a one of your favorite campgrounds. Is there anything that you guys have sort of identified of it being particularly helpful for?
Tony Barthel
I think, you know, campground entrances, 'cause campgrounds are often located in reasonably remote areas. Right. The idea is not to camp in the city, but camp in the woods or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So campgrounds could use it as like, here's the entrance or Mm-Hmm. Here's where you check in. That would, that would be helpful.
Peggy Barthel
Like you said about the Colosseum, if you just use a navigation, it's gonna pinpoint the center of the Colosseum, whereas, whereas you need to get way over here to get to the gate. So things like that, entrances, and as Tony said, check in locations. But I think also like what we've done our meetup space Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, we have been able to get people out here and find us now. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, we are off of a, there's a named road and then we're on just a dirt not named road.
Peggy Barthel
So that's the hard part is getting people to find the, not the lack of road, find a son where there's not a road. But in the case of that emergency that I told you, I'm going to imagine that the emergency vehicles are out here all the time and they're fairly familiar with where some of these better dirt roads are, so they can probably navigate. But, uh, I did have to go out to the paved road and wave a couple people in 'cause they couldn't find this non paved road that doesn't exist on
Marcus Taylor
A map. <laugh>. Oh my gosh. I bet. Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
But luckily we're close to that, so
Marcus Taylor
That's good. Yeah. So I, I suppose I'd say what three words is a fantastic tool to have in the toolkit if you are an outdoorsy person Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, in case you ever get into an emergency situation and you need to share your location, it's brilliant to have that in your pocket and to know that I can send my, what, three words address, uh, to a buddy and they can come find me, or if I need to call 9 1 1, then I can use what three words. So definitely having the app on your phone for that, given that it's free is, is a no brainer.
Marcus Taylor
Yeah. And then also what you can then do as, as we discussed, is start exploring all of the fun ways that you can navigate around in the outdoors. Using what three words and I dunno. I think saving locations of beautiful viewpoints that you want to visit and sharing them to, to, to friends would, would be awesome. And, and, and sh saving the locations, um, of your best parking areas and the best campgrounds that you've been to, uh, just makes total sense to me. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> in the last couple of summers I've got into, um, camping with a couple of buddies and what three words has just been a, a game changer for meeting up and making sure we can all find each other if we're arriving on different days.
Marcus Taylor
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So I think it would be, hopefully it'll be a super handy tool for you guys to use moving forward.
Tony Barthel
Here's something that I thought of as we were talking. We post a fair number of things on Instagram Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, some of which are destinations. Is there a universal way of sharing the, what, three words? Words on an Instagram post or something like that?
Marcus Taylor
Oh, definitely. I mean, I would say you would just share the, what, three words address, like you'd share any other sort of location information or street address. And you can either write the, what, three words, dress in the caption of the Instagram picture, or there's a really, really cool feature on the what, three words app called Photo mode where you can snap a picture or upload a picture to the what Three words app and then add the what three words address to that picture, uh, as a little sort of sign within within the image.
Marcus Taylor
And it's just a really, really cool way of adding the location and building it into, into the, the design of the picture. And it looks great. We see people doing it all the time to share the top of the mountain they hiked to, or the middle of the lake that they, they kayaked out to. And yeah, you could definitely, you could definitely do that to share some, some of the beautiful spots you guys visit. Fantastic.
Peggy Barthel
I'll, I'll lead you to the question you really wanna ask for fun,
Tony Barthel
<laugh>. All right.
Peggy Barthel
So I've also thought of a application that we can actually use for ourselves. Okay. We, we allow people to boondock in our yard. Oh, great. Sometimes, and we have kind of two really good parking locations. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> one on either side of the house. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And so even the wet three words app would work for that because we can say, you know, park at these three words. Yeah. And they then they don't end up on the wrong side of the house. <laugh>, you know, it's not that important really, but it's kind of a fun use and it will help us spread the word because that's how I'll send people to our house.
Peggy Barthel
And then I don't have to explain you, you need to turn left at that school and blah, blah,
Marcus Taylor
Blah, <laugh>. No, that is a perfect, perfect example. And we see, for example, we'll see loads of people who host on Airbnb doing the same thing instead of sort of saying, yeah, uh, this is the street address. They'll probably say, this is the street address, but where you really want to go and park your car, is this what three words address? Or Yeah, the guest house is actually at this, what, three words address, or, or, or whatever. So definitely a great way to use what three words.
Tony Barthel
Oh, that's awesome. So my last question is <laugh>. I know that it's purely random Yeah. The three words. But can you petition for a change of any one location? For example, if I wanted my house to be molar, curly,
Marcus Taylor
<laugh>? Uh, no. I mean, uh, it's something we get asked a lot if we could ever change the words. And, uh, while I appreciate there would be some very hilarious consequences, which I, I very much enjoy <laugh>, there's a few reasons we can't. I mean, one of them comes back to the emergency services, uh, in instant response, right. Scenario. Um, an amazing thing about what three words is that it works offline. So if I don't have any data connection as I can open what three words and open the app, and as long as my phone can see the sky, as long as I'm not in a cave, for example, as long as my phone has has that GPS signal and can see the sky, I can get my, my what, three words address.
Marcus Taylor
Now if we were updating and changing the three word addresses all the time, then that offline functionality would be, uh, corrupted a bit because, you know, the three word address might have changed and we wouldn't wanna give bad information in an emergency.
Peggy Barthel
Really good point.
Marcus Taylor
It's just one reason why, why you can't change the three words no matter, you know, uh, how, uh, much you might want to in some scenarios. But, uh, yeah, what three words app being offline is sort of another massive benefit to have it having it on your phone. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
Oh, I didn't realize that. And that is an important function. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So I guess
Peggy Barthel
I also noticed, just to find out where Mo Larry Curly might exist, that you really don't have proper words, you names. No, there's no Mo or Larry. So <laugh> No,
Marcus Taylor
No, no. Yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm afraid, afraid not. It there tends to not be any first names any homophones. Yeah. So for example, here or here, you know, won't be in the word list because that's potentially confusing. Yes. So yeah, afraid, afraid that one won't appear anywhere. And if the 57 trillion squares
Peggy Barthel
<laugh>, that's a great point. Because if you do have to say it in wor, you know Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> speak the location. Yeah. Yeah. That's
Tony Barthel
Interesting. One
Marcus Taylor
Of the parts that blows my mind is that it's available in 60 different languages. So, uh, we would use the English language version of what, three words, but you can also use what, three words in Spanish or German or Japanese. And we build the system entirely from scratch, the word list entirely from scratch for each of those languages. And so it's, wow. It's not just, we want it to be able to u be used anywhere on earth by anyone who wants to, so it's, uh, the goal is a, a universal system that, that everyone has access to.
Tony Barthel
Huh. That's amazing. That's
Peggy Barthel
Terrific.
Tony Barthel
Well, I guess that's it for my questions. Marcus, thank you so much for your time and for this incredible free resource. I don't know how you do it, but <laugh>, I'm glad that you do.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah, it's
Marcus Taylor
Wonderful. No worries at all. I really hope it comes in handy and you find weird, fun, funky ways to share your, what three words, addresses with people and, and save them. And then if you, you could post 'em online, then we can, um, check them out as well. But it's been lovely speaking to you guys, and uh, thanks for your time. You
Tony Barthel
As well.
Peggy Barthel
Same. Thank you. So I really encourage you to download that app. It doesn't have to be for emergencies, but as Marcus said, download it for emergencies and then you'll find other fun ways to use it before you, or hopefully if you never have an emergency, you know, it's just fun. Like, I'm at this door of this building or I'm, you know, at this table in the restaurant, you know, even that would work because they're 10 by 10 squares. So almost every table in a restaurant's gonna have its own location.
Tony Barthel
<laugh>. Yeah. It's a neat, I mean, there's so many uses for this app, it's pretty darn cool. You know, we'll be using it in the future. Right.
Peggy Barthel
So some of the people that found us at the meetup did have a little bit less luck with their water usage and needed to fill up with water. So they went into town and filled up their wolverine tough bags. <laugh>.
Tony Barthel
Yep.
Peggy Barthel
And with those wolverine tough bags and the pump that we received with our tough bags, we were able to help fill up the trailer so that people wouldn't have to hook their trailer up to go back into town to get water.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. They were wondering how they were gonna get water and they were gonna hook back up and drive to town and fill water. And instead Paul and Cindy have their Wolverine tough bags. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> that we showed 'em at the balloon fiesta actually.
Peggy Barthel
Right. And they were going to town anyway, so they filled up their bags while they were out.
Tony Barthel
Yep. And then we used our drill pump and filled up the other trailer and it was, it was great. And I think we may have convinced them to buy after they got to touch the tough bags and see how well made they were, and just feel the quality. I think we have convinced them to go with these American made good quality water storage bags. Yeah, of course. They fold up flat, so they're really convenient, except of course when they're full of water <laugh>. But no sharp edges and really high quality connectors.
Tony Barthel
I, I'm very pleased with these. So, another good tool for boondocking. I think we're becoming the Stressless Camping Boondocking Podcast.
Peggy Barthel
Podcast. Boondocking podcast. Well, you know, when we're in Quartzite for sure, you know, maybe later in the year when we're doing other things, our slant will be a little bit different. But boy, to spend a three weeks, which now we feel like three weeks isn't enough in court site <laugh>. Right?
Tony Barthel
Yeah. Isn't that funny? I mean, it's just
Peggy Barthel
The, the longer we stay, the longer we wanna stay. It was really sad to leave yesterday, <laugh>.
Tony Barthel
Yes, it was.
Peggy Barthel
But it was a great successful inaugural meetup. We had, I wanna say 13 rigs altogether. Some people kind of came early, went early and yeah. So wasn't, not everyone was there all at the same time, but it was really fun and really terrific. And we did spend a little bit of time checking out Quar site. You know, some of the things that people did, either as a group or individually, was to go see the hydraulic monument and shop at Tyson Wells.
Peggy Barthel
Bill and I spent a day just looking for rocks at Tyson. The house. Yeah. There were rock shopping. That was fun.
Tony Barthel
The whole desert was full of rocks, but they still went and looked for more.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah, absolutely. You can't just pick up rocks. Although I did just pick up a few quartz crystals laying around the campground, and I still am not certain whether that was natural or someone will dropped them. So I might feel a little bit of a geology post coming on. Ooh. We'll see what happens.
Tony Barthel
Ooh. If you don't know, Peggy is a, has a master's in groundwater geology.
Peggy Barthel
There is a website that has some geology of different areas, but it takes me, it takes me a while to get these out. I don't feel like I can just sit down and write about geology. I have to, you know, do a whole research paper. So I have to really commit when it's time <laugh> to
Tony Barthel
Do <laugh> and I should be committed. So there you go.
Peggy Barthel
There you go.
Tony Barthel
Works out.
Peggy Barthel
Right. But the other thing that we did as a group was really fun. We went to beer bellies. Oh yeah. Adult daycare, which is a kind of a popup bar.
Tony Barthel
We went to Silly
Peggy Barthel
Al's, we went to Silly Al's Pizza and the Quartzite Yacht Club. Yes. There actually
Tony Barthel
Is. Yeah, there is
Peggy Barthel
What there? The Quartzite Yacht Club in the middle of the desert. And then we made an excursion Oh yeah. Outside of Parker. So it took like an hour and a half from Quartzite and we went to the desert bar. Now the desert bar is all off grid. It's solar powered. They're only open on the weekends. It's about a five mile dirt road. Kind of a bumpy dirt road to get there. Yeah. But they have a band, like every day that they're open, I think. And they have two places to buy food. And you can get beer and they have a bar so you can get mixed drinks.
Peggy Barthel
And the whole atmosphere is just fun. Fun, fun, fun.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. If they had really great musicians out there, they were very impressive. They have Greek food now. Yes. They hero
Peggy Barthel
Was delicious.
Tony Barthel
I heard that. They don't have cheese for the cheeseburgers. They have cheese for the
Peggy Barthel
Cheeseburgers. They cheese for
Tony Barthel
The cheeseburgers. But I had pulled pork french fries. Oh my. They were,
Peggy Barthel
They
Tony Barthel
Were really
Peggy Barthel
Good. They were good. The euro was so good. Yeah. The burger was a half pound burger. People looked, I mean they were certainly enjoying those burgers and stuffed afterward.
Tony Barthel
<laugh>, the only con to the, those pros <laugh>, is that the only beers they have are like Coors and Coors Light and that, that kind of stuff. And it's like, eh, I don't know. Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
Not the best beer selection. Not
Tony Barthel
The best beer
Peggy Barthel
Selection. But you know, as Tony says, we call Coors Light Lawn Mowing beer. Yeah. It's a nice light beer. You don't get all drunk off of it. You don't get all stuffed off of it. Which was good because with the food we ate, we wouldn't have had room for beer <laugh>. So we had a Coors Light, you know, it didn't hurt.
Tony Barthel
No, it was a regular co. Well, I had, yeah, you had a Coors Light. I had more than one Co. And
Peggy Barthel
We bought some T-shirts. Yep. Souvenirs. And we just really had a good time. And you know, we went with a group, so that's always fun. And had a good time exploring and looking at the desert bar and having a beer and listening to music. So
Tony Barthel
<laugh>, the only other bummer is, you know, that road I've been told is pretty rough. And I thought, oh, I could finally try four wheel drive in our new pickup truck. And no, it
Peggy Barthel
Wasn't rough enough.
Tony Barthel
No. Any, any vehicle really could make it. It's bumpy, you know, there's no doubt about that. But I think any vehicle could
Peggy Barthel
Pretty much make it out there. Yeah. It's actually a graded road. So yeah.
Peggy Barthel
Anyway, we just can't stop going on and on about our meetup. We just really had such great time. And one of the things we did, as Tony said, our friend Engle had an idea last year actually to have a 17 inch oven challenge. Now, he was one of, I think three people maybe that have a 17 inch oven that was at the meetup. But what we did was we had an RV oven potluck. I had to change all the words because you weren't limited to a 17 inch oven. If you had a real oven, you were allowed to participate.
Tony Barthel
Okay. So just to clear a couple of things. First of all, a lot of RVs have 17 inch vertical ovens. And the problem is there's enough working bits inside that, that it's really not much space at all. And they have hotspot
Peggy Barthel
In terms of heightwise. Right.
Tony Barthel
And they're, they're pretty lousy ovens to be honest.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. Because they're such a small space, I think they tend to get more hotspots and stuff. But I didn't wanna leave anybody out of wanting to be part of the oven bake off <laugh>. Right.
Tony Barthel
I have become known for complaining about those because according to one of our sources in the industry, there's a $38 difference between the 17 inch oven and the 22 inch oven, which is what we have in our Rockwood Mini Light. And since a lot of the trailers at the gathering were Rockwood Mini lights, most people had, well sure. The better oven. But we also had two grand designs in a vintage Airstream. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. And those did have the 17 inch oven.
Tony Barthel
So that's the where the 17 inch, uh, oven nonsense comes from.
Peggy Barthel
So yeah, it started out as a 17 inch oven challenge and it turned into an RV oven potluck <laugh>. Yeah. And, and again, anybody who doesn't use their oven was still asked to participate. You know, you can't eat all baked things. Well, I could, but <laugh>. Yeah. Anyway, we did have a great time and I got to pick up some recipes, not just necessarily oven recipes, but today I happen to be sharing with you Marilyn's chicken and wild rice oven dish that she made for the first potluck, the oven potluck.
Peggy Barthel
And oh gosh, I like wild rice. But that combination of wild rice and real chicken and mushrooms and chicken soup and Parmesan, uh, it was just so delicious and gooey from that mushroom soup and cheese and the wild rice was just perfectly done. It just, it was a really good dish.
Tony Barthel
Well, I will say I'm not a fan of wild rice typically, but I sure like this. It was
Peggy Barthel
Really, really good. So I did share that recipe on the website, so you can go check it out. One of the ideas of having a potluck or any kind of thing like that is show what you can do in your RV kitchen. Not necessarily your RV oven, but your RV kitchen. We all know it's a limited amount of space and we all have our tips and tricks and, you know, ways to make things work out. And so that was part of my idea behind having a potluck also was show off what you can do and, you know, maybe share your recipe and get other people to understand that it's possible to eat well when you're using your RV kitchen <laugh>.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. I mean, you know really well, there were some days we went out to eat, but Well, sure. For the most part. We cooked there in camp and everyone used their rv, the resources built into their rv. And it was fantastic. That's all I can say. It
Peggy Barthel
Really was. So Tony, do you have a gadget that you'd like to report either for boondocking or for not
Tony Barthel
Boondocking? Well, this is not for boondocking. Okay. It is for hooking up and it's huge power watchdog. And they were there at the Courtside Sports Vacation and RV show. And I got to hear once again about how this works. Now, if you are connecting your RV to shore power, I cannot be more emphatic about that. You need one of these, and you might say, well, I've been hooking up RVs to power pedestals for years. And Yeah. But older RVs do not have all the electronic stuff that modern RVs have.
Tony Barthel
And having worked in warranties, I can tell you some of the parts, the electronic bits can be difficult to get. And you might have your RV sitting, you know, at the back of a dealer's lot for a very long time. If you fry some of these circuit boards, your first thought is it's a surge suppressor.
Tony Barthel
And yeah, it, it kind of is. In fact, there's a surge module in them. So if you have a surge, that module can be field replaced. It's really easy. I saw 'em do it, and it was, it was really easy. The other thing about these is you can use Bluetooth and monitor your power consumption. And that saved our bacon once before we went to court. No, it was the first day of Quar site where I realized why we were tripping the breaker. Oh yes. We were just pulling more power than 30 amps would deliver.
Tony Barthel
Yep. And we can use the app to see what's happening. And here's another thing, I use that for the RVs with the electric and propane water heater. If you have the water heater set to electric, you can measure how much power is being consumed and know when the water is hot.
Tony Barthel
So I use it for that. It also will shut off the power if the power is too low. And too low can also be a problem because you can burn up motors like in your fridge or in your air conditioner and such with too little power. So I can't be more emphatic about that. You should have a power monitoring system and power protecting system. And these huge power watchdogs are just good.
Tony Barthel
I think they're the best on the market right now. And not even a close second. I mean, they're good stuff. Not cheap. They're, I don't think they're like in the threes, but some of these circuit boards and stuff in your RV or a new rv, air conditioner, <laugh> or a new refrigerator. Yeah. They ain't cheap folks. So that's my recommendation. I really like the Hughes Power Watchdog. There's an article about why you want one at our home on the web@stresslesscamping.com.
Peggy Barthel
Tony also made a little zippy tip on YouTube about the Hughes power watchdog, and he also mentioned that he uses the contact cleaner on the connectors. We do that on the power pedestals at campgrounds and then also on our own outlet, you know, on the side of the rv.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. So I've seen more than one post in social media where people will show a picture of their power plug and it had been connected to some sort of a power protector. Right. Some sort of EMS. Right. But the court has melted. That
Peggy Barthel
Is not good. No.
Tony Barthel
And they say, how can this happen when I have a surge suppressor? Well, if you look at electricity, especially the 30 amps, if you plug in and unplug and plug in and unplug, they're only rated for so many connections. And then people drop the cords in the dirt and blah, blah, blah. And these connections get dirty. And if more schmutz gets on these connections, the more resistance there is. And that means heat. And as these plugs can heat up, sure, they'll deliver 30 amps, but at some point it can heat up enough to melt the connectors.
Tony Barthel
So we have this stuff from a company called Diox. It, it's a contact cleaner and you just spritz it on your any contact really. And like wherever you plug in, you can spritz it on your power cord, you can spritz it on the connector on your rv and just keep them clean and functioning well.
Tony Barthel
And that is another, it's a really cheap way to keep things working as they should. And you'll be surprised, you know, if you are working to unplug, let's say your, your Hughes power watchdog from your power cord, and it's like you're struggling, you're pulling for all your worth. Well, maybe you should spritz it with some of this dioxin, because then it just connects and disconnects smooth as butter. Ooh, ooh. Yeah. So I, I really like this stuff.
Tony Barthel
It keeps things clean and it's just less likely to cause an issue, which can mean fire and fire is not good.
Peggy Barthel
Not good at
Tony Barthel
All. It's good in the fireplace, but that's it. Yeah. <laugh> or on the campfire. Thank you Cindy. Yeah,
Peggy Barthel
Cindy. Cindy made some good campfires for us. So last week we were together at the meetup when we were recording what <laugh> And so you know that Kate came up with our question of the week and it was, what is your most used app? I didn't say travel. She didn't say travel. I didn't say travel and a couple of you answered apps that are not travel. We'll talk about that as we go along. But first of all, thank you Heidi for noting that you love how I set up my apps. I actually have just for travel, I have a whole slew of route apps, a whole slew of on the road apps and a couple pages of camp apps <laugh>.
Peggy Barthel
So that's how I keep mine sorted. Pamela uses KOA Good Sam and recreation.gov for camping and I exit and Gas Buddy for travel. Bill uses RV Park and he uses the Loves app for in Trip Fuel Stop planning, where he saves 10 cents a gallon and that's what we do and that is pretty darn good. Yeah. We also do use Gas Buddy to find out where we're gonna be in case we aren't near a Love's. But also to find out, you know, how much Cheaper Loves is gonna be with our 10 cents off <laugh>.
Peggy Barthel
Warren uses all stays. Kathy uses Google Maps, recreation.gov, RV life level mate, pro Moka Tank sensors and Gas Buddy. Brian uses RV Life Gas Buddy. Open Roads, camp Panda Compass, TPM, Google Podcast, SiriusXM and YouTube Music. Well,
Tony Barthel
Everybody ought to be using some sort of podcast app.
Peggy Barthel
Well sure, of course. Steve says probably the one I'm using to view this post. And I have to admit, <laugh>, my Facebook app is probably the most used thing on my phone by far. Rena says Compendium and Passport America to find spots and Google Maps for travel. Kate's most used is Roadside America for Fun. Places to Stop. I don't know why I don't think of that more often.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, because there's all kinds of crazy,
Peggy Barthel
They're great stops. Yeah. She uses RV Trip Wizard for planning and I overlander for off-grid spots, dumping water, et cetera. She uses Harvest Hosts and also Upside for Gas. Hmm. Tina uses Candy Crush the most. <laugh>, Madeline says Hers is a little weird, but probably for Flight. She uses it for flying stuff and weather for everywhere because it's more reliable than the weather app. And Paul says the camera app and Paul takes some amazing pictures.
Peggy Barthel
In fact, he took a time lapse of Sunrise the morning that we left Quartzite and it was just stunningly beautiful.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. Let's do the timewise again. Yeah,
Peggy Barthel
<laugh>. So thank you all for letting us know. There were a couple apps in there that I haven't used, so I might be looking those up and I might have to add something to one of my three groupings of apps. <laugh>. <laugh>. This week's question of the week is, what's the biggest RVing mistake that you've made? Now I am going to say that you'll see a picture when you see the posting of a awning that is rather crooked. <laugh>. It's only one of two awnings that Tony and I have had to repair or replace from mistakes.
Peggy Barthel
Both my fault. I think they're the biggest ones we've made, but I'll have to give it some thought. 'cause maybe I'll come up with something even worse that we've done. <laugh>. Oh
Tony Barthel
Well we have total to several. I have totaled several
Peggy Barthel
Trailers. We have total, we have total two trailers. We have had to replace a couple of stabilizer jacks.
Tony Barthel
Our jacks are jacked.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 6
Well that's
Tony Barthel
Because a
Peggy Barthel
Couple of our jacks are jacked
Tony Barthel
Low. A combination of a drop frame and a not drop driveway. <laugh>.
Speaker 6
Right. <laugh>.
Peggy Barthel
But what are you going to admit to having done? That's the
Speaker 6
Question, <laugh>. There you go.
Peggy Barthel
Tony, where can you answer those questions?
Tony Barthel
Well, you can find them at the Fun and Friendly Stressless campers Facebook group, which is a really good collection of neat people. It's really been polite and friendly and sometimes quite funny. Yeah.
Speaker 6
<laugh> <laugh>.
Peggy Barthel
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Tony Barthel
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Speaker 6
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Tony Barthel
I think they all said No
Speaker 6
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Tony Barthel
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On the podcastPage@stresslesscamping.com, which is where you'll also find our discounts and deals for the best deals on the things you'll need, your stress camping adventure.
Peggy Barthel
Hey, you know, if you know of a great deal that you can't find on our website, please let us know about that and we'll work really hard to get it added to our discounts and deals page because we want to have all the best deals for the things you need.
Tony Barthel
Uh, of course we're also in all the social places, but you can start@stressescamping.com and you know, from there jump off to your favorite social place to be.
Peggy Barthel
If you don't wanna miss a future episode of the Stress Camping podcast,
Tony Barthel
Why it's absolutely free,
Peggy Barthel
It's free to subscribe on any podcast catcher. And we are saving you a seat around our virtual campfire. And as we have reminded you over and over and over again,
Speaker 6
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Tony Barthel
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Peggy Barthel
A review really, really helps other people find this podcast. And the more listeners we get means we can continue to get great, great guests for you. So if you would please leave a review, it is very, very helpful to us.
Tony Barthel
Yep. Uh, another thing that's helpful if you have already left a review is we have such a collection of articles that are designed to be evergreen. In other words, they continue to be relevant on our website. And if you see people asking questions in the various social media places, if you were kind enough to share something from our website, boy does that help us. Don't
Peggy Barthel
Worry if you go to your mom's for dinner every weekend, you're getting tired of what she makes. Share a couple recipes off our
Speaker 6
Website. <laugh> <laugh>. Well that's, yeah, sure, why not?
Peggy Barthel
I'm trying to think of real life
Speaker 6
Examples here. <laugh>. Hey. Yeah, sounds good.
Tony Barthel
Mom. This food tastes terrible. Why don't you try some from
Speaker 6
Stressless Camping? <laugh>, you
Tony Barthel
Gotta stop cooking horse
Speaker 6
Like that. <laugh>. It ain't very good. <laugh>.
Speaker 7
Oh, I think it better be time that we call this off and say to you,
Speaker 6
Stressless camping.
Mark Ferrell
We hope you learned a lot and had some fun and got some tips for your next Stressless camping adventure. We're honored by your reviews on Apple Podcasts, which helps others find us too. Don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss out on the adventure. And we look forward to your joining us next week. Until then, happy camping.
Tony Barthel
And um, then what do you do <laugh>.
