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Sharing our new 2025 Rockwood Mini Lite 2506FK - our new trailer

Sharing our new 2025 Rockwood Mini Lite 2506FK - our new trailer

StressLess Camping Podcast
Podcast, Podcast Episode 290

This week on the StressLess Camping RV Podcast, we take a tour of our new Rockwood Mini Lite 2506FK. See how we organized our home away from home and made it just right for our travel and work style.

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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV podcast episode 290

Peggy Barthel

Welcome to the Campfire <laugh>.

Tony Barthel

Hi, I'm Tony. I'm Peggy. We're two RV industry veterans who travel part-time

Peggy Barthel

Traveling the country in our Rockwood Mini light 25 0 6 fk. In case anyone didn't know <laugh>, that's the secret. <laugh> we have not been keeping since November.

Tony Barthel

Yeah, right. <laugh>. Well, this week on the Stress of Camping podcast, we would like to take you on a tour of our Rockwood Mini Light 2 5 0 6 fk and tell you why we bought this particular trailer and share with you well a tour. And also what we really like about this, what kind of persuaded us to go this direction,

Peggy Barthel

Right <laugh>.

Tony Barthel

So without any further ado, we're gonna start where we always like to start

Peggy Barthel

Right here

Tony Barthel

With our reviews. <laugh>, by the way, we are coming to you from the Quartzite Sports.

Peggy Barthel

Yay. Vacation and RV show.

Tony Barthel

And RV show. So this is where we're camped. We're right on the midway. That's right. And if you hear factory sounds and stuff, they're setting up the show. Yep.

Peggy Barthel

They're still setting up the show and opens on Saturday. You'll hear this, see this on Thursday? Yeah. So you still have two days to get to ready to get to court site to for day one.

Tony Barthel

Oh, right, right,

Peggy Barthel

Right. But then you have 10 days. So if you can get here in the next week and a half <laugh>, you're got, you've got it made Well.

Tony Barthel

And then afterwards we are gonna have our gathering in the desert. So if you can't make it for the Quar size sports vacation and RV show, you can join us in the desert the following week. Yeah.

Peggy Barthel

Join. But what's that? Join us. Our meet up. Yeah.

Tony Barthel

Without any further ado. Right, let's go for a tour.

Peggy Barthel

Sorry.

Tony Barthel

Whenever I write these RV reviews, I always suggest you start at the road first for good reason. And I'll show you why on this trailer. So come on, let's, let's look at the road as it were. So Rockwood uses, Rockwood uses a torsion axle suspension. And what's good about that is it's a smoother ride and the less jiggling and jouncing that happens as you're rolling down the road. 'cause we all know how the roads are, the less is transmitted to the trailer, which means less likely that stuff is gonna break.

Tony Barthel

Now you'll also see that these are Goodyear Endurance tires. And I believe that Goodyear Endurance tires are right now the best travel trailer tires. And we have an interview with Curtis Henninger from Goodyear. So we'll put a link to that. So something else that's fairly unique to Rockwood, it's ideal. Your tires on whatever you're towing with are balanced.

Tony Barthel

And Rockwood is using what they call balancing beads inside the tires. So again, smoother ride, less jiggling and less harshness transmitted into the trailer, which means it's gonna last longer. Another thing I like is Rockwood includes tire pressure monitoring on these Goodyear endurance tires. So if you have, you know, something's leaking or you have an issue with the tire or it's starting to heat up, which could be like a bearing failure, the tire pressure monitoring system will warn you.

Tony Barthel

And again, that's included as part of owning a Rockwood or Flagstaff. By the way, they are the same trailer. Another, you know, this does have a, your furnace here and then there's this rail. And on this rail they include a flat top griddle and a little metal table, which is pretty cool. Another thing I want to share with you is these things are built tough.

Tony Barthel

So the way Rockwood builds their sidewalls and they build them themselves, it's a composite laminate structure. So you've got the fiberglass on the outside that you can see, but right below that is a manmade, what they call substrate. It's a, it's a ground up pop bottles basically. And then either aluminum or insulation. Then more of that lam, that composite substrate on the inside. Now you may have heard the term Adel Adel now is not the only company that makes these composite substrates.

Tony Barthel

So it has been as Dell for a while and now it's just a composite substrate. Same product. It's kind of like Kleenex. You could buy just as good facial tissues at the grocery store and they don't necessarily have to be Kleenex. But the good thing is, the way Rockwood does this is it's a vacuum lamination process, which is again, the ideal way of making this type of wall.

Tony Barthel

And it's stronger, lighter and far less a, a chance of water intrusion. I kind of went against my <laugh> pri, I kind of went against my prior experience as a warranty manager. We did get power stabilizers, typically I like the manual ones, but there you go. And it is an option. We chose it. Another neat thing is Rockwood has gone to all what they call slam latches.

Tony Barthel

So you know, they slam shut and all of these cabinet doors have a little magnet hold back, which is good. Also, all the keys on this trailer, it's the same key for everything. So for your compartment doors, both are entry doors, everything is operated with one key. So that's convenient. So also back here you have a accessory hitch for like bikes and such.

Tony Barthel

That's built right into the frame. Effectively Rockwood is using a gas, electric water heater, not a hot water heater. <laugh>.

Tony Barthel

If you had hot water, you wouldn't need a heater. Why do I like this? Because you have six gallons of hot water and like we use that geyser shower system. So the tankless water heaters that are becoming popular need to see a certain amount of volume move by. And if you're doing something efficient like boondocking, which we do a lot, they don't trigger the tankless water heaters generally. So I prefer this traditional gas, electric water heater.

Tony Barthel

Another thing that Rockwood does, this is a rack and pinon through frame slide, which I believe is my first choice. It's a, it's just a better, more capable system in my opinion. And again, I had talked about vacuum laminating walls. Rockwood does it on the slide boxes as well. The roof. And the roof of these trailers is also vacuum LA laminated.

Tony Barthel

Animated, animated, animated, vacuum animated <laugh>. So a lot of RV companies use wood roof structures.

Tony Barthel

This is a vacuum laminated structure that's insulation and aluminum. And then there is a membrane that they put on top that has a lifetime guarantee. And Rockwood is also using a much higher quality sealant that requires less maintenance. Now all RVs require maintenance, right? But this sealant is far, far superior to what has been done. One more thing I'd like to show you. Rockwood uses frameless windows.

Tony Barthel

Why do I like those? Well, there's not a lot of metal around here. Well there's no metal around here to get schmutz up. They're less maintenance, they tilt out, you can have 'em open in the rain. So nice touch. And they're tinted. So that's my, my preference again. Now one thing, you know, we've been talking about how much we like this trailer, so we'll get to the first dislike. There are two sewer dumps. Now granted, that means we have a kitchen tank and a bathroom gray tank, which is nice.

Tony Barthel

But this is a contortionist dream

Peggy Barthel

All the way under the slide.

Tony Barthel

Yeah, so

Peggy Barthel

The other one,

Tony Barthel

The other one's up on the other side of the slide up here.

Peggy Barthel

Oh, it's up there.

Tony Barthel

So me And then there's a little compartment here in the slide which I like as well. Hang,

Peggy Barthel

I missed that. Say that again.

Tony Barthel

So there's a compartment in the slide as well. And again, more of the frameless windows and such. We did change some stuff already. One of those things is, you know, we use our starlink dish and a lot of times we'll just mount it on a flagpole here. And we have a story about that@stresslesscamping.com. And we did go back to our camco Recurve TR three weight distribution hitch, which we've had.

Tony Barthel

We switched to a different one. It caused us to notch the frame on the previous trailer. They didn't like that. And so we went back to this, which required no modification of the trailer itself. Pause. Alright, so you know we had talked about this starlink and how do you get the starlink from inside to out? Well I drilled a hole in this baggage compartment door. Ooh, I know. And it goes out. Now this baggage compartment is a magical place.

Tony Barthel

It's another place we've modified. And what we did is we literally took this trailer from the dealership to a B, C Upfitters and they installed this system where a mini fridge. Now all this cabling here, this is my doing. That's the Starling cable. But all the rest of this is the A, b, C upfitters master volt power system. So you have your inverter and charge controller here. I'm sorry, inverter here.

Tony Barthel

You have your solar charge controller here. This is the battery here. And then look at how neatly and professionally all this wiring is done. They just don't skimp. I mean everything in here is absolutely top quality. And again, this cabling is my doing. You can tell it's the only thing that looks <laugh> not professional in here, but this is, we also got their DC to DC charger. So we can actually use our truck to charge the battery.

Tony Barthel

So it plugs into the truck and and brings about the equivalent of a thousand watts of solar in more or less. Or we have 1200 watts of solar on the roof. But all of this was a B, CF fitters when, when we went there, I saw all these pieces. And of course I'm aware of all these pieces, like oh my gosh, how are they gonna put this in the space of the mini fridge that was here? And they cleaned up this compartment so nicely and put all these pieces in.

Tony Barthel

And we've, it's just, you know, we talk about them a lot. And the previous systems that we had were factory installed systems. This is the first where they installed the system. 'cause Rockwood doesn't offer this system in this floor plan. And it's just worked perfectly. It's just a beautiful install. So if you're looking for a great solar and lithium system that matches what you do, like us out here in the desert or whatever.

Tony Barthel

Or even if you're just looking for a battery upgrade, whatever it is, A, B, c, upfitters are the people to call. And what's their number? Five seven. Four. Three. 3 3 3. 2, 2 5.

Peggy Barthel

So changing the point of view, <laugh>, not really, but you know I look different. Tony showed you this cabinet where the A, B, C where A B, C put the battery and everything in and he showed you where the battery was, but he only showed you about two thirds of the battery. <laugh>. Let's go see the rest. Okay, so the rest of the battery is in here. And this was a drawer. We gave up this drawer because we wanted the battery. And can you see how the battery takes up a little bit of that drawer space?

Peggy Barthel

About half of it. And then we decided, well hey what a perfect place to put the starlink router. Yeah,

Tony Barthel

There were a couple of plugs in that compartment that we showed you outside and we, they were just not put in that neatly, let's just say. And A B, C redid that. Now the grate that's there, that's not attached.

Peggy Barthel

So Rockwood replaced the drawer. <laugh> we traded in the drawer for this is actually, if you have a furnace with an intake, this covers that furnace intake. The battery needs to have some kind of water or not water airflow. And so we have this, we haven't decided exactly how we're gonna attach it in case we wanna get in there so we don't wanna screw it in. So it just sits there for now.

Tony Barthel

You saw all the cable spaghetti that I did. Well that grate is also my undoing or doing <laugh>. There you go. That's why it looks like that.

Peggy Barthel

Okay. But this is why it's called the 25 0 6 fk because it has a front kitchen. We're looking, you are looking out the windshield right now at the front kitchen. Nice microwave. Of course the hood vent. The three burner stove with a vitamin in it. Nope, that's, no, that's the clicker. <laugh>. I thought I saw a vitamin as Rockwood does the full size 22 inch oven, not the little dinky one. Plenty of cabinets, cabinetry including underneath the sink.

Peggy Barthel

And a couple of tilt outs. A nice big wide double width sink that has some storage stuff in it right now. But has these nice sink covers for drains. Pretty decent faucet.

Tony Barthel

There's two power of tower popups on the

Peggy Barthel

Counter too. That's right. That's right. The tower of

Tony Barthel

Powers, which are also magnetic. They're induction chargers. You put top, put your phone on top. Top. Yep.

Peggy Barthel

So all the cabinets for our food are here.

Tony Barthel

And they're soft clothes.

Peggy Barthel

They're soft clothes. And then the pantry, which I normally would put food in, but just the storage containers that we have worked out better. This is a mess right now because we've got some extra things crammed in there for our long trip. But essentially we have our plates and our cups and our measuring things in our, our leftover containers and things like that. In this cabinet we have a dinette <laugh>. This was one of the main selling points is, you know, in our 2205, we had taken out the theater seats and put in work chairs, you know, office chairs and like TV trays to work as a workstation.

Peggy Barthel

This is a way more comfortable workstation. And we have already sat last night and done some work and enjoyed the comfort of the dinette. This table moves completely out so we can put it wherever we want. If we wanna get, get rid of it completely, we can put it outside if we wanted to. Yeah, yeah. But it's a freestanding table. Really easy to fold down for, for moving.

Tony Barthel

And they use the marine grade flooring in this slide now. Yes. And also this slide box has extra tall windows, so it's really Yes.

Peggy Barthel

So much window. We love that. So I guess this is where we'll point out that Rockwood now come with this binder. Tony did a whole video on the Rockwood binder. But this has, you know, like information on all the aspects of your mini light with QR codes so you can get some help on all the different things and some, some drawings of wiring diagrams or something. I don't know. Anyway, <laugh>. <laugh>.

Peggy Barthel

I haven't memorized it or anything, but

Tony Barthel

Of course the dinette can become a bed. But we're not gonna tell any of our friends that. Right.

Peggy Barthel

<laugh>? We haven't done that. So the dinette also has these two drawers. Oh yeah. Which are good size. And there's all your night lights you were looking for. Oh yeah. Look

Tony Barthel

At that. And the finger. Oh, get the finger. Oh,

Peggy Barthel

The finger. The

Tony Barthel

Finger.

Peggy Barthel

Okay. I get to finger everything else. <laugh>. Okay, so dinette. The other part of the front kitchen. Well, or any kitchen really. I think this is the Rockwood standard right now is this bottom freezer drawer top refrigerator.

Tony Barthel

Does that refrigerator have any magic to it?

Peggy Barthel

This refrigerator does have magic to it.

Tony Barthel

It's a magic chef.

Peggy Barthel

Except I can't get back there. So <laugh>.

Tony Barthel

Well if you're like coming in from the outside

Peggy Barthel

Right? You just wanna pop up and get a pop out of the refrigerator. Pop yeah, pop an adult pop,

Tony Barthel

Whatever. Yeah. Beer is what, what

Peggy Barthel

A beverage of some sort or a piece of cheese from outside. You can open it from that side.

Tony Barthel

And what we've found now, we haven't done numbers on this yet, but that fridge is remarkably efficient. I'm,

Peggy Barthel

It has seemed to be very

Tony Barthel

Efficient, really impressed with that. And it's quiet too. We

Peggy Barthel

Kind of walked past this, but here's the we RV control app or control panel. So you can turn the lights on and off and open the slide and check your levels of water. And then this panel came with the A B, C system. And this, you know, you could, we've turned the combi master on so that we have power inside. And so this gives us the state of charge and everything about our A B, C upfit,

Tony Barthel

The Rockwood panel, the one with the lights and slides and all that. Also has a redundant app so you can turn lights on and off. And Peggy discovered a really cool feature about that. It has like timers. So you could, like last night we were in bed. Yes. We had the lights in the bedroom dimmed on a timer. So when it was time to, you know, after the preset amount of time they just shut themselves off. So it's like a sleep timer, which I thought was pretty cool.

Tony Barthel

Pretty cool.

Peggy Barthel

Got your air conditioner here.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. And that's the, the duct of course. Mock. Yeah. Quiet. Cool. Quiet, cool. Oops, I don't want to shake the camera. I apologize. Everybody

Peggy Barthel

<laugh>. These lights also, if you have too much brightness, you can turn each puck on and off individually. Yep. As long as the main light is on <laugh>. And then I, I like this Coleman mock controller. I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but there it turns the fan on and off. It turns the heat or the cooling on or turns it off. I'm gonna leave things off for right now 'cause it's beautiful in here.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. And then the tv. Oh and then And the fireplace

Peggy Barthel

TV. And the fireplace. So has a fireplace when you're, you know, it runs on electricity. It's essentially a space heater, electric space heater. But it's very pretty. And then there's another little cabinet for all kind. All kinds of weird stuff in there. <laugh> and the big television. It's a smart tv. It works as a speaker, right?

Tony Barthel

Yeah. Bluetooth as

Peggy Barthel

Well. Bluetooth. Bluetooth speaker. So notice that there aren't any other speakers in here. This is the Bluetooth speaker.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. And it's a JBL speaker. It doesn't sound bad for what it is. Yeah.

Peggy Barthel

Shall we move on?

Tony Barthel

Oh, let's do that.

Peggy Barthel

I think it dripped just dripped on me. <laugh> <laugh>. Oh hello. I'm just taking a shower in this super roomy. Oh, I can't even reach the ceiling shower.

Tony Barthel

Yeah, it's, I'm really impressed with the shower in here. And then we,

Peggy Barthel

We of course put our oxygen shower head in here and then we also have an actual contraption because we have our geyser shower system for when we're off grid or when we're Tony. 'cause he loves it and uses it all the time. Even in the house we have one.

Tony Barthel

And then the shower miser.

Peggy Barthel

The shower miser

Tony Barthel

And what's that?

Peggy Barthel

What's what? The shower. The shower mis. So the shower miser is a device that will, you can turn the water on and while you're waiting for the hot water to arrive at the faucet, the shower miser will

Tony Barthel

It

Peggy Barthel

Redirect. If I say it wrong, I'm gonna get in trouble. But anyway, it redirect water back. It won't let the water go down the drain. It will put the water back in the system. Yeah. Then this blue tube will turn white and say, Hey the water's hot now. Then you can just put it back into position for making the water come out whichever head. And we've got, you know, individual for his and hers and here's a lot of vi VI dials and valves. But it's a great efficient system.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. Another thing that I really like about Rockwood is they include high performance vent fans in the ceiling instead of the cheap do nothing four inch fart fans. And it's a porcelain foot flush toilet

Peggy Barthel

I can't reach. Which, which is also

Tony Barthel

So close. Yeah. Oh yeah. Soft close. Za

Peggy Barthel

<affirmative>.

Tony Barthel

Okay,

Peggy Barthel

Go ahead. One of the reasons that we decided to get this 25 0 6 FK was the dinette. But another reason was this bathroom. The bathroom is a great size, but also the bathroom separates the kitchen that I just closed off from the bedroom where Tony is right now. And we'll look at in a minute. And so we have extra, we have two sets of doors. We have real separation from sleeping space to working space. And when you don't have the same sleep schedule, that's really helpful.

Peggy Barthel

So we have a pretty good size linen closet here. Of course the, I'm gonna make sure nothing falls out. <laugh> the medicine cabinet and then a pretty good sized cabinet underneath that. I finally have a place for the, the vacuum, the Ryobi vacuum stick part. I've never been able to stash that anywhere. So I'm so thrilled that that fits underneath.

Tony Barthel

And we, we have the toilet paper hung over the door.

Peggy Barthel

Yes. The toilet paper hangs over the door. The towels hang over the door. So we didn't have to put extra holes for anything. The sink has that solid surface like in the kitchen. So we don't have, you know, that that seam where water can get in. So this is really nice. This was an add-on. This does not come with it, but <laugh>, I like this 'cause it keeps the countertop from getting wet and then it lets the water drain. I don't know what it's called, but you can find it on Amazon. I think

Tony Barthel

Thingamajigger

Peggy Barthel

Ready. Here we go. Ta <laugh>. Here's that second set of doors I was talking about that separates the bathroom from the bedroom. Now with sliding doors that have a strap on them so that they travel nicely. They also have a magnetic catch here. Just really strong. I might have to put a felt thing or something 'cause it's so strong I can't even open the door <laugh>. But now we're in the bedroom, so come on in.

Peggy Barthel

We have of course his and hers closets and plenty of overhead cabinetry.

Tony Barthel

We with soft closed doors

Peggy Barthel

With soft closed doors. We each have a drawer now Tony used to have like all the switches and panels here. So he's excited that he has a drawer. Now one other slight modification is that we have put our ghost bed mattress in this trailer. This is now the technically the third trailer that this mattress has been in. We got it with our first 2205 and then switch swapped it out to the second 2205. This is just a pretty to make the mattress look nice.

Peggy Barthel

And the red, this is a super bag who I assume will be at the Quartzite sports vacation and RV show. They always have been, we haven't talked to them yet this year, but hopefully they will be here.

Tony Barthel

That's super bag we've had now for what, six years? About

Peggy Barthel

Six years, yeah.

Tony Barthel

And it's, to me is, it looks as good as when we bought it.

Peggy Barthel

I always see the new colors and designs and want a new one. But it, there's, there's no reason to buy a new one. Right. We did buy new sheets last year, but the bag itself is in great shape and we don't need to replace it. Another great feature of these bedrooms now is that, oh, I still can't reach it. There's a LED light, a reading light on each side. So we can each turn on our lights and there's also tower of power on each side. So we each have our power to charge our devices at night, keep us awake with this bright light that we're gonna cover up with a piece of tape or something.

Peggy Barthel

<laugh>, if I would change things, that would be something I would try to figure out how to change. I understand that indicates that it's live and ready to go. But it's very bright when you're trying to sleep there. <laugh> this, we opted for the second fan, max Air fan over the bed. When we have just a cool enough night and it's warm inside, we can just turn that on and maybe open a window and the, the flow of air is perfect. We don't need the air conditioning for the most part.

Tony Barthel

And we have our bears.

Peggy Barthel

And we have our bears and the 25 0 6 fk. By the way, if you know the old 25 0 6 fk, this bedroom looks a lot different, as does the bathroom. The bathroom did not used to be a pass through. And the bedroom used to have I think a slide in it and the bed was side to side and there was an outdoor kitchen out there. So it was a lot different. And actually people say, oh God, I'm glad I already had one. But I say, boy, I'm glad they changed it. We didn't like all those features before that everybody else loves.

Peggy Barthel

And we actually don't need an outdoor kitchen. We do love the middle bathroom pass through the secondary door. We can take or leave, honestly. But we have to, this is something I would talk about in design. You know, it has those fold out stairs. All the staple steps. Yeah,

Tony Barthel

The solid steps

Peggy Barthel

And those fold up and they take this entire space. So if we are boondocking overnight for just a night and just wanna sleep, in order for Tony to get to this side of the bed, we have to open the door and put the steps out and leave the steps out overnight. We wouldn't have to otherwise because we don't really use this door, man. You know? Yeah. Some people might love that. We could take it or leave it.

Tony Barthel

I wanna add one thing about those cabinets, because they're at the back of the trailer, which is, you know, squared off by gosh, they have a lot of space.

Peggy Barthel

Oh they do. Let me see if

Tony Barthel

I can mine, I'll be careful because I loaded mine up and it, it's got a ton of stuff that

Peggy Barthel

It was very full. Yeah. But it goes all the way back to here. Yeah. And square. It's that whole

Tony Barthel

Length. It's square. So we put those little baskets in, show the soft close. It's, see, Ooh, now let's see if I can, now let's see if you can turn the left. Oh, and there's a USB port in each of those. Oh, that's right. That's where there are 12 hole. And I figure, you know, it's like, wait a minute, where are you gonna run the cable? But if you put the phone in the cabinet overhead up there, that might be the way to, I suppose. And by the way, the bedroom lights also dim. We don't wanna show that. 'cause it gets all blinky. Yeah. And you can run those with the, the

Peggy Barthel

Camera doesn't like that.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. With we are V app.

Peggy Barthel

So there it is. Finally what you've all been asking for for almost two months now, <laugh>. Yeah. There's the walkthrough walk, walk walkthrough of our walk wood <laugh> <laugh>. There's a walkthrough of our new Rockwood mini light 25 0 6 fk.

Tony Barthel

Yeah. We have been just delighted with this trailer. And this is now our fourth Rockwood trailer, Rockwood Mini light. And you know, you hear a lot of people complaining about RVs and blah blah blah. And this thing has just been solid. And we did, we sat in a dinette very much like this with some of the decision makers at Rockwood a while back. We will put a link to that. It shows you how the company thinks things through and what, how they make decisions. And yeah, there are a lot of RVs you can buy that are price focused.

Tony Barthel

But Rockwood and Flagstaff are one of the brands that really do a very good job. And that's why we, we like them. Now we are brand ambassadors for Rockwood, but we bought our very first Rockwood just after doing research. Yep. And we have had a number of RV companies say, Hey, we want you to be our brand ambassador.

Tony Barthel

And truthfully we just like these trailers, they're just well made, well designed, well thought through trailers and just seeing how they made improvements from 2023, our last trailer. Yeah. To this trailer. It just shows they keep sort of polishing the diamond. Yes. I, I just, I really like this brand quite a bit thing. So a lot of people have said, Hey, how can I support Stressless camping?

Tony Barthel

Yeah, well of course you can. Like if you're watching on YouTube, like, and subscribe naturally. If you are listening on any podcast app, you could write a review or of course share anything from our website. But another way we have that you can support us that we don't talk about too much is we do have a merch store.

Peggy Barthel

We do indeed. We are displaying some of those things. Yeah. But not all of those things. So some of them will have overlaid photos. 'cause we have a couple things in the camper that we didn't think to bring right here with us. But this is our newest thing. It's called Think Outside No Box Required. Yeah. This is our new T-shirt design. And this is our newest water bottle design. Now you can buy the t-shirt as a water bottle and the water bottle as a t-shirt. This Right, this design is available.

Peggy Barthel

So this is a great water bottle. It's really big. Yeah. And it's got like a built-in straw and that says Hide and seek Champion. It's a, it's Bigfoot. It's a Bigfoot but with a travel trailer on it.

Tony Barthel

Well, it's

Peggy Barthel

A Rockwood, it's a Rockwood travel trailer. You know, Tony had to design that special because there aren't really that many kind of, what do you call it? Clip art

Tony Barthel

<laugh>. Well that, yeah, this is, we, we designed these.

Peggy Barthel

That's mini light. Yeah. So,

Tony Barthel

And it's a stainless steel water bottle. I think the quality is really good on this. I really like these bucket hats with that are embroidered. But you know, there's a bunch of stuff there.

Peggy Barthel

So you can get shirts either with an embroidery or a printed logo. <affirmative> the bag, which is something that you'll see an overlay of right now because it's in the other room. I forgot to bring it over. T-shirts, a coffee. I don't know. Yeah, I think we have, anyway, there's all kinds of stuff. Yeah. And, and if there's something that you wi, there's even socks <laugh>, there are socks that they embroidered a logo on. If there's something that you wish you could have, you know, an item that might be printable, let us know and we'll look into it and we'll add that item to our list.

Peggy Barthel

If that is something that you would like to buy, it's all by demand. So, you know, if we add it and nobody else buys it, that's okay. We can go ahead and add it. Yeah, that's right. But anyway, that is, as Tony said, it's a way to support us. We get a little bit, how do you

Tony Barthel

Get cool stuff?

Peggy Barthel

We get a little bit of profit from that and Yeah. And then you can walk around saying, oh look how cool I am. I'm wearing a Stressless camping shirt. <laugh> carrying a Bigfoot bottle. Yeah.

Tony Barthel

Anyway, well that's what we have for you this week. Thank you for coming on our little tour. And of course, you know, you can find the written review of this trailer and so many other RVs at our home on the web where you'll also find discounts and deals and some great helpful hints and tips and just all kinds of stuff like that. So check out stressless camping.com. There's, we really try to provide a lot of value there.

Tony Barthel

And everything of course is free. Well not the merch, but <laugh>. Everything, all the content is free.

Peggy Barthel

As Tony said, check out the merch store, check out the, the YouTube channel if you aren't already the podcast, if you aren't already the website and all the social places. Yeah. Right. And share, share, share that is very, very helpful to us. Like, like, like that is also very helpful. I know that our program automatically throws a cartoon thumb up every time I do that. So hi <laugh>, and we really appreciate you sticking around for this 200 and I think 90th.

Peggy Barthel

Yeah. Episode

Tony Barthel

This is 290th episode

Peggy Barthel

Count. We're gonna get 300 pretty soon.

Tony Barthel

Counting down to 300.

Peggy Barthel

Yeah. And have a terrific week. Come and see us in court site if you are able to, if you need more details, please reach out and let us know. And until next week, Stressless

Tony Barthel

Camp 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.

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