RV shopping in 2025 - is now a great time to buy an RV?
Are you RV shopping? Not all RVs are built the same! We don’t like to read, or hear, that all RVs are poorly built, especially since 2020. And what about tariffs? Could this be the perfect time to buy a new RV or should you wait? This week on the stressless camping podcast we have some quality comparisons that you should do, to help you decide which RV bands are right for you.
We visit a goofy destination, and revisit a gadget that’s good for the RV or home.
Other places to hear the podcast
Mentioned on this episode
Our friends at Liquified are giving away a travel trailer - no purchase necessary. https://liquifiedrv.com/StresslessRVGiveaway
Learning about RV quality from RV decision makers: https://www.stresslesscamping.com/podcast/0270
Touring Jayco - what’s the story on Jayco quality
Our new RV shopping guide - insider tips for buying a new RV
The KOA Outdoor & Hospitality Report: https://koa.com/north-american-camping-report/
RV construction comparison - what’s the best kind of RV construction?
Our tips for shopping RVs at an RV show: https://www.stresslesscamping.com/rv-show-tips
A discount code for Harvest Hosts - a great way to find unique camping locations
Our visit to the Rotary Jail in Crawfordsville, Indiana
Our RV show calendar: https://www.stresslesscamping.com/rv-shows-and-rallies
If you’re confused about solar, battery power or just want to upgrade your RV we have found the solutions from ABC Upfitters are both reliable and exceptional.
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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV podcast episode 303
Peggy Barthel
Are you RV shopping?
Tony Barthel
Not all RVs are built the same.
Peggy Barthel
We don't like to read or hear that all RVs are poorly built, especially since 2020.
Tony Barthel
And what about the tariffs?
Peggy Barthel
Could this be the perfect time to buy a new rv?
Peggy Barthel
Or should you wait?
Tony Barthel
This week on the Stresses Camp RV podcast, we have some quality comparisons that you should do to help you decide which brands are right for you.
Peggy Barthel
We also visit a goofy destination and we revisit a gadget that's been good for the RV and the home.
Tony Barthel
We have this week's podcast along with the notes and all the stories that go with this episode. Plus discounts, deals, helpful tips and more at our home on the web@stressescamping.com don't.
Peggy Barthel
Forget to like and share. And thank you for joining us for podcast episode 303. I'm Peggy.
Tony Barthel
Oh, and I'm Tony.
Peggy Barthel
We're two RV industry veterans who travel part time.
Tony Barthel
Not at the moment, but in a Rockwood mini lane.
Peggy Barthel
Yep. Looking to share big adventures and help you with great tips, tricks and discounts.
Tony Barthel
Well, we got to visit our buddies at Liquefied while we were in Indiana last week and they are legitimately giving away a 2025 Alliance Delta SLE ML206. A travel trailer.
Peggy Barthel
Travel trailer.
Tony Barthel
We actually saw it. It's there waiting for somebody to win it.
Peggy Barthel
That's right. So either look in the show notes or look right here at the QR code that I'm putting probably pasting right over our faces somewhere and use that to use that link to join in the giveaway and also save 10% on your first liquefied purchase.
Tony Barthel
Visit liquified.com stressless RV giveaway for your unique discount and to enter the contest. And truthfully, we tested a variety of RV tank treatments and Liquified just came out on top. So you could say it's the tops for our bottoms. There you go. Or as Matt would say, think of me when you poop.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, not me. Think of Matt.
Peggy Barthel
Think of Matt.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. Seriously good product.
Tony Barthel
You could win a travel trailer and we even have a discount. So can't wait.
Peggy Barthel
Can't lose. No, I almost said can't win, and that is not right.
Tony Barthel
Well, we can't win.
Peggy Barthel
We can't win. But that's okay.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, that's true.
Peggy Barthel
We have a travel trailer and we do plenty of Liquefied.
Tony Barthel
We have a lot of it.
Peggy Barthel
Black tank, gray tank, toilet cleaner. Toilet cleaner.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, they have all those things.
Speaker 3
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Speaker 4
I used to get excited before RV trips, but then I started having issues, camping issues.
Speaker 4
And it wasn't just affecting me, it was upsetting her too.
Speaker 3
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Speaker 4
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Speaker 4
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Speaker 3
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Speaker 3
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Peggy Barthel
So a lot of people have been checking out the RV reviews lately.
Tony Barthel
Oh yeah.
Peggy Barthel
And people are asking if they should get a new rv.
Tony Barthel
They also see and hear a lot of comments, especially on social media that oh, RVs are all junk now and the quality of RVs is terrible.
Tony Barthel
So we have some tips if you think you might want to go shopping.
Peggy Barthel
Right now and this might be a really good time to do that.
Tony Barthel
Yes, for sure. Absolutely. Do know the effect of tariffs is real.
Tony Barthel
But as we record this and as you hear or watch this, no tariffed RVs have hit the lots yet.
Peggy Barthel
Well, no, as you hear or watch this, if you're watching it when it comes out.
Tony Barthel
Right, right, right, right. Oh yeah, if you watch it in five years.
Peggy Barthel
This is late April of 2025.
Tony Barthel
Correct.
Peggy Barthel
We're not making future predictions. We're talking about what's going on right now in April of 2025.
Tony Barthel
Right. But we have heard some dealers are saying, oh, the tariffs have already raised the price.
Tony Barthel
No, they haven't.
Peggy Barthel
No.
Tony Barthel
That's on stuff that's being built with stuff that's being brought in, but it hasn't really hit anything. So this basically could be a really great time to shop. And it is a buy market right now.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
So what about the quality?
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. So we've also heard for, you know, for five years that RVs built during COVID had ton, well, tons of problems. But what the truth is some did.
Peggy Barthel
And we're not denying that.
Tony Barthel
Oh yeah.
Peggy Barthel
But also it's also true that a lot of RVs built during COVID had a bunch of new features and new electronics added on. And the trend right now is to kind of have fewer of those upgrades and fewer of those gadgets and just, you know, kind of Go back to building a quality RV without all the bells and without all the unnecessary bells and whistles. Yes.
Tony Barthel
Well, last week we were back in Indiana again, looking at a whole lot of RVs, new models coming out, new models that have just been released, that kind of thing. And one thing's for sure, a lot of the fancy stuff that people weren't really convinced they wanted has been taken back off. So the price is, is better also on some RVs. Some RVs are more expensive.
Peggy Barthel
Sure.
Tony Barthel
But. But a lot of the stuff that you didn't ask for is gone on these new RVs.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
So.
Peggy Barthel
And we have seen a lot of improvements on how things are built, how things are made, how, how the gadgets that they're putting in that are actually useful quality gadgets, even in kind of the more budget friendly RVs.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. These RV companies are looking at all of the social media and they're paying attention to what you're saying. And we noticed significant improvement in the assembly quality of RVs and what has been going in. So even. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
On some of the lower, more affordable RVs, there were things we saw that were rather impressive. Not everywhere. Again, shop carefully.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so let's say someone is shopping for a new rv.
Peggy Barthel
Should they go to an RV show to shop?
Tony Barthel
Maybe.
Peggy Barthel
I know, I know that our attitude kind of changed about that whole thing. You know, we used to think that it was not a good idea to shop at an RV show.
Tony Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And then we talked to an exec who said, well, sometimes they will incent the dealers. They'll actually give them money to participate in the RV show, which could offset some of the costs of, I mean, they have to pay transporters or if they have their own fleet, bring the RVs to the show, staff the show, pay for all the displays, blah, blah, blah, and then take them back to the dealership. And even if you bought an RV at an RV show, it still goes back to the dealership and undergoes what's called the pre delivery inspection.
Peggy Barthel
Or.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, you're not.
Peggy Barthel
Sorry, you're not taking it home. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
You're not just taking it home, still.
Peggy Barthel
Going back to the dealership.
Tony Barthel
Right.
Peggy Barthel
And getting it ready for you so that when you do pick it up, you know all those footprints that all those people made looking at it and you know, if anything happened to get messed up during transit or whatever, those things are not still messed up when you do pick it up at the dealership.
Tony Barthel
So an RV show is really fun to go to.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
But we, I think the core principle of buying an RV is shopping your RV dealer first. And it's hard to do at an RV show, but not impossible.
Peggy Barthel
But the good thing about an RV show is you get, you often get like a whole bunch of different brands. So if you know exactly, kind of I want this size of this whatever. But there's seven different ones that make the same floor plan. You can go in and kind of comparison. So you kind of narrow down what you want.
Tony Barthel
Yep.
Peggy Barthel
Even if you aren't planning to purchase at the show.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, that's. I mean, an RV show is so much fun to go to. And as we have found, it can be frightfully expensive because you just go to look at an RV and suddenly.
Peggy Barthel
You buy an rv.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. We're not immune. We are not immune. We do have a bunch of tips for shopping RVs at an RV show.
Tony Barthel
So that's a link we'll put here as a QR code or on the show notes as well. By the way, you can always find the show notes@stressescamping.com each podcast has its own show notes page. This one is episode 303.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
There's an interesting study which we'll put a link to from koa.
Tony Barthel
And they really studied the daylights out of campers and.
Peggy Barthel
Not campers, RVs. Campers. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And what they found is that people don't, you might think, oh, most of these journeys are really long, but really they're often under a hundred miles that people never pull or drive their RV more than 100 miles to get somewhere.
Tony Barthel
They're not like us.
Peggy Barthel
No.
Tony Barthel
We put 9,000 miles on our trailer since November.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. So we, we use it for long trips, long distances.
Peggy Barthel
But a lot of people do what we did in the beginning. Right. We had, yeah, we had a travel trailer on the weekends. We went somewhere between 16 and 100 miles to hang out with our friends at a campground or, you know, a state park campground or whatever. And that was, that's perfectly good way to use an rv.
Peggy Barthel
It just so happens now that we travel with it to do other RV things.
Tony Barthel
Right.
Peggy Barthel
In other parts of the country.
Tony Barthel
But I guess the point is figure, get an idea of how you're going to use the rv because that can really affect what you look for in, in your RV.
Peggy Barthel
Right.
Peggy Barthel
For example, the 16 foot travel trailer that we had in the very beginning was perfect for weekends. When we did a six week or two month trip all the way across Route 66 and back. It felt a little small.
Tony Barthel
We were getting our kicks on Route 66.
Peggy Barthel
We were getting our kicks.
Peggy Barthel
But we also wanted to kick each other out of the trailer.
Tony Barthel
Well, it was. Yeah, that was a small trailer. It was a great trailer. But.
Tony Barthel
But anyway, so once you've narrowed down what you want to get in an rv, finding the right RV dealership can make a giant difference. In your experience. The RV dealership manages the warranty. They will be there to provide service, and you will very likely need service. So we have all these great tips on how to find a great RV dealership and it, it truly makes a difference.
Tony Barthel
There is a. I'm going to go off topic here. There is a brand of RVs that I'm aware of that I think the RVs are terrific and their dealer network, based on just the social media posts I see, is awful. And it really is ruining the customer experience, in my opinion.
Peggy Barthel
That's too bad.
Tony Barthel
It really is. You know, finding a great dealership absolutely makes a difference. We prefer the small locally owned dealerships.
Peggy Barthel
We do. Okay, so once you kind of have a good idea of what dealer in your area has, you know, has good reputation and everything, know your budget, you know, first you got to know what kind of RV you want.
Peggy Barthel
Then you have to know how much you can afford to spend on it. Please remember that some travel trailers or, you know, RVs can be financed for like 15 years.
Tony Barthel
It's. Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
It is not very likely, just based on our experience that you're going to have that same RV for 15 years.
Peggy Barthel
If you financed it and then in a year you are done using it, you still have 14 years worth of payments to make before you can.
Tony Barthel
Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
Get out from under that purchase.
Tony Barthel
We also have RV finance tips and we interviewed the finance manager at the dealership I used to work at. She was terrific and great advice on that.
Tony Barthel
But basically we, we really like local credit unions and many of them will do RV loans. But as Peggy said, these long RV loans can really, you are what they call upside down. You owe more than the RV is worth for a good long time with these really long loans.
Peggy Barthel
So also know, as we talked about, you know, if you are the kind of RVer who plans to drive to the state park 20 miles away four or five times a summer and the winter, you have to cover it up because of the snow. That's like the extreme opposite of us, I guess.
Tony Barthel
Well, we know it gets sub freezing.
Peggy Barthel
You're saying like in terms of the type of rv.
Tony Barthel
Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
So if that is you, if you, you know, maybe you get to go away for a week and go on a little bit Longer trip or whatever. But know what you're going to do with your rv and that will determine.
Peggy Barthel
And I, your, your. The economics, the budget, the, the. Yeah, the build economics. Right. So some trailers, or I'm sorry, some RVs are really built and designed to motor down the Highway 9, 000 miles since November and some of them are not really going to fare that well to do that kind of thing.
Peggy Barthel
But driving 20 miles to a state park, four or five even, you know, two times a month or whatever, they're not going to have a problem with that.
Tony Barthel
And, and something we found, we looked at again last week looking at all these different RVs. There were some very budget focused RVs that were really nice and there are detail features that we saw that, you know, if we use it a lot, it would be annoying. Small ovens, cheap tires, tiny vent fans. The, the quality of the drawer build was.
Peggy Barthel
Right.
Tony Barthel
Things like that, that if you're going to be in there a lot, it's, it's going to get annoying.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah. In real life, I think, you know, like it looks good on paper, it seems fine. At the dealership you're like, oh, that's not a big deal.
Peggy Barthel
But then you start using it and you find out, gosh, that kind of is a big deal. I wish we hadn't, I wish we had, you know, listen to Tony and Peggy and well, but a lot of.
Tony Barthel
Those features are something you can fix down the road.
Peggy Barthel
Sure.
Tony Barthel
And also speaking of, of how RVs are built, how there are various ways that they can construct RVs.
Peggy Barthel
Right.
Tony Barthel
Anything from all aluminum welded construction with aluminum skins and, and just built like tanks to what are called stick and tin, which is a wood frame, aluminum skin trailer, which is really the least expensive way to build a trailer. And people go, oh, that's not as good as that aluminum frame. But, but truthfully, a stick and tin trailer could last 20 years if you take care of it, it could last 50. Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
I mean we had still some vintage trailers out there that are sticking 10 trailers that are, I mean people have done some work on them. But the one that we had for a short time, the Aristocrat, the stick and the tin were in great shape. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And yeah, absolutely. So just because something is more affordable doesn't make it wrong.
Tony Barthel
Less useful depending on how you use it. And that's true. Like suspension too. You know, I keep advocating these great suspensions, particularly on travel trailers. But again, if you're only going 20 or 100 miles to the state park, leaf springs are just fine.
Peggy Barthel
Right.
Tony Barthel
Right. I mean, again, know, know your use and, and your priorities. So we have a whole section on buying a new RV or used and RV shopping. A lot of great tips.
Tony Barthel
No, again, 20, 25 right now is a buyer's market. It's a great time to buy an rv. We are in the period of time before tariffs take effect and we don't know what's coming down the, the road with those. But check out our section on how to buy an rv and if you're looking, boy, are you looking at the right time.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
So speaking of that 9,000 miles that we've put on the trailer since November.
Tony Barthel
Yeah.
Peggy Barthel
We are just home yesterday from a. About six weeks out. Yeah, we went, I'm.
Peggy Barthel
It was not perfect planning on our part, but it just happened this way. We went from here in New Mexico to Georgia, to Texas to Indiana. Now if you want to pause and go look at a map and realize how goofy that looks, it's true. It was, it was, it just. That was the way that things scheduled out and so that was fine.
Peggy Barthel
But we did a lot of that, those day to day drives or those night to night sleeps using harvest hosts and other, you know, mooch docking and boondocking locations. And we had no problems in terms of the amount of power. In fact, I'm like very set in my ways. And every night, even if we didn't need it for anything else, I asked Tony to please turn on the inverter so that I could charge my phone and watch the way I'm accustomed to charging my phone and watch because heaven forbid I should have to change anything.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, that's for sure.
Tony Barthel
And, and I was very pleased that we did a lot of this very impromptu travel and having the ABC upfitters master Volt system really enabled us that it's an enabler. So we went to museums, we went to just all sorts of crazy places and a lot of off grid camping and it just, it just worked well. One of the things that we also had put in when we had our master vault system put in was a DC to DC charging system. So there were some nights where it was, it was cloudy and we used the truck to charge the trailer during the day. So by the time we arrived, you know where we're going to be, the, the whole system was charged up and ready to go.
Tony Barthel
It was, it was really good and it really enabled us to do a lot of off grid camping and boondocking and mooch docking and harvest hosts. And the experience was, you know, it was great. And that's one of the things we'd like to share is that having this type of system really enables you to tailor your travel based on what's happening at the time.
Peggy Barthel
Right.
Tony Barthel
So if that sounds like something you might be interested in.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
Give our friends at ABC Upfitters a call. You can reach them at 574-333-3225.
Peggy Barthel
That's 574-3333-225. Or find them with the link on our page for this podcast episode.
Tony Barthel
Absolutely.
Peggy Barthel
So we've been talking more and more each week lately about goofy places that we have found in the usa and.
Tony Barthel
It'S what's what kind of lights a fire under us. It's something we really enjoy. And so this week, we're all going to jail together.
Peggy Barthel
Oh, my. Yep.
Tony Barthel
In Crawfordsville, Indiana, we visited a jail that was a prototype of an idea that a number of communities adopted.
Peggy Barthel
A rotary Rotary jail.
Tony Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And it wasn't just any way to incarcerate folks. It was a way that a community could also save a bunch of money doing so.
Peggy Barthel
Sure. The idea was that jailers could rotate the entire jail and provide access to only one cell at a time. That made it easier for fewer people to manage the prison population.
Peggy Barthel
Right. They only needed really one guard because there was only one door.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. And it was actually rather effect and innovative. One individual could actually move the eight cells on two floors with a single crank, rotating the entire 45 ton structure.
Tony Barthel
And it was surprisingly easy to do.
Peggy Barthel
So that is just.
Tony Barthel
It was really impressive.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah, yeah. So great.
Peggy Barthel
There were other innovations too. For example, there was a central plumbing system in the jail, so prisoners didn't have to be let in and out of their cells to go to the bathroom. They just used the bathroom right in the cell. Which was really revolutionary at the time, by the way.
Tony Barthel
The 16 toilets in the jail drained into a central pipe into the basement of the property and out of the building.
Tony Barthel
However, the whole system was only flushed twice a day.
Peggy Barthel
Can you imagine?
Tony Barthel
Yeah. Apparently it smelled pretty bad and times.
Peggy Barthel
Were different back then.
Peggy Barthel
So the whole jail was a round structure. It was designed in 1882 by William H. Brown and built by the Howe Ketchum & Co. Iron foundry in Indianapolis.
Tony Barthel
The cells were pie wedge shaped.
Tony Barthel
And the idea was popular enough that they sold this to a number of communities.
Peggy Barthel
In fact, the original rotary jail which we visited is still standing. And it even still rotates.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, it does. So while the idea was successful in many ways, challenges showed up almost immediately.
Peggy Barthel
With many of the town's guests Coming into jail after a night of drinking, sometimes they were still intoxicated when it came time to rotate someone in or out. And if that person had their hand or their leg or their foot resting on the bars when the jail was rotated, they could become amputated.
Tony Barthel
Absolutely. Yeah. It takes a lot to stop 45 tons of jail.
Tony Barthel
At one of the rotary jails, not the one in Indiana, but another one, a prisoner actually passed away, but the mechanism jammed, and it took two days before they could be gotten out of their cell.
Peggy Barthel
My goodness. Okay. But there is a really funny story. One of Crawfordville's residents, who was a regular guest at the institution, happened to have a wooden leg.
Peggy Barthel
Not because of the jail, not because of the jail. He just happened to have one and happened to get put in jail a lot. Well, the combination of snow and challenging roads and other, you know, environmental factors meant that the leg wore out and had to be replaced regularly. And wooden legs at the time were not cheap.
Tony Barthel
So one night he's in jail, and he figured out that he could get sent to jail for a minor crime, like stealing a pack of gum or whatever it was.
Tony Barthel
And in jail, he'd get three meals and a shave so he could go see the judge.
Peggy Barthel
But even better, he realized if he stuck his wooden leg out the bars where people were having their arms amputated, it would break the leg, and they would have to rep. The city would have to replace it because they broke his wooden leg.
Tony Barthel
It actually took three years for the jailers to catch on what was happening here. And finally, when he would come to jail, they would confiscate the leg when they put them behind bars.
Peggy Barthel
Well, after being declared unfit, many of the rotary jails were modified to more traditional types, and they had their mechanisms disabled.
Tony Barthel
The one in Crawfordsville did, too, but it was still used with modifications until 1973.
Peggy Barthel
So there are still three of these jails standing. And the community of Crawfordsville saw the significance of the history of the jail and worked to restore it. So today you can actually take a tour of the jail and it spins by a docent.
Peggy Barthel
You don't get to do it yourself. You don't get to be inside. And they're very, very careful that you don't put your hands, legs, or wooden legs in between the bars when it rotates.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. Rotary jail is an interesting bit of innovation in history.
Tony Barthel
Something worth visiting on your stressless camping adventure. And it is definitely goofy usa. Oh, I like that.
Peggy Barthel
So we don't really have a recipe this week, but we do have A gadget that talks about food.
Tony Barthel
Okay.
Peggy Barthel
We had gone out and we had ordered some fried food. We had like, chicken nuggets and French fries. Yeah.
Tony Barthel
I don't remember.
Peggy Barthel
Something else.
Tony Barthel
All not healthy stuff in the picture.
Peggy Barthel
That is showing right now. We. Anyway, we couldn't finish it, and so we took it back to the camper and we thought, you know, fried food is never better reheated. It's never good.
Peggy Barthel
But when it came time. But we're also ones that don't waste food. So when it came time to try it, we reheated it in our Omnia oven.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, Omnia is a stovetop oven that it really works well. In fact, we also made the chicken broccoli casserole.
Tony Barthel
It worked so well that we made it a few days later, this chicken broccoli casserole. But the Omni oven did a great job of heating and crisping the leftovers. So.
Peggy Barthel
Super surprised. I really thought, there's no way you can reheat fried food without an air fryer.
Peggy Barthel
Right, Right. But we put it in that Omnia oven and it actually turned out perfectly edible.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, it was really. So that Omnia is a. Is a neat thing.
Tony Barthel
And again, you don't need electricity. It just works right. On the propane stovetop. And we. We gained a new bit of respect for it.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah.
Tony Barthel
And it's light and easy to carry, so.
Peggy Barthel
Yes.
Tony Barthel
Anyway, we have an article about it and links to that in the show notes. Hi, I'm Tony.
Tony Barthel
Links to article in the show notes. Barthel.
Peggy Barthel
He's changing his middle name.
Tony Barthel
I am.
Peggy Barthel
Well, so our question of the week, I think, a couple weeks ago was, do you have an attraction in your town worthy of Roadside America or, you know, Goofy usa?
Peggy Barthel
And I am letting you know right now that I'm gonna keep that question kind of handy because as people answer, I'm working on a new map. For years, you all have told us, like, oh, you should visit this, or you should drink that beer, or you should mooch talk at our house. And I had a spreadsheet, and I realized that that's not really that easy to look things up on a spreadsheet. So I am working on a map so that when we're going to a certain area, I can look at the map and say, oh, look, John said we should drink the beer at this brewery or whatever. Right.
Peggy Barthel
So I'm going to be adding Goofy USA locations on there, too, so that we don't miss anything when we're in the neighborhood that you have all told us. About?
Tony Barthel
Well, our plans are also to do that on stresslesscamping.com so stay tuned. We are. We're working on that portion of the website as well.
Peggy Barthel
Oh, the map, huh? Oh, okay. I best better do a really good job then. The question for this week is how did you find this podcast?
Speaker 5
We hope you didn't find it boring.
Peggy Barthel
That's what Another part, another YouTube channel that Tony watches about trains says that about trains. We hope you didn't find it boring. And we do hope that.
Tony Barthel
Yeah, we do.
Peggy Barthel
But we're really curious, like, how long have you been listening or watching?
Peggy Barthel
And you know, when. How did you find us? When did you find us? Just kind of, you know, we're always talking about ourselves, but we want you to talk about you a little bit. What do you think of me?
Speaker 5
Well, enough about me.
Tony Barthel
What do you think about me?
Peggy Barthel
Okay, so.
Tony Barthel
And you can answer that question at our fun and friendly Stressless Campers Facebook group.
Peggy Barthel
You can also sign up on our website for our once a week newsletter, which is absolutely, positively and completely free and has links to stories and videos and podcasts that will help you get the most out of your RV experience.
Tony Barthel
Yeah. If you visit any of our pages@stressescamping.com there's a place to sign up. Whether it's at the bottom or pops up or who knows, in the middle.
Peggy Barthel
Of an article somewhere. Please know that we just use that so that we can send you a once a week newsletter.
Peggy Barthel
No more than once a week. And we don't share your information. We don't sell it, we don't give it away, we don't post it on bathroom walls. We just use.
Tony Barthel
We did get our name posted on a bathroom wall this week, but it was on a chalkboard.
Peggy Barthel
We did.
Tony Barthel
Anyway, you'll find the show notes for this episode, episode 303 on the podcast.
Peggy Barthel
Page at stresslesscamping.com also on stresslesscamping.com you can find our favorite RV products and services page for the things that you'll need for your stressless camping adventure.
Tony Barthel
And we've just added Liquefied.
Peggy Barthel
That's right, including Liquefied.
Tony Barthel
Of course, we're in all the social places, but you can start@stresslesscamping.com and from there jump off to all the places you enjoy wasting time with us.
Peggy Barthel
If you don't want to miss future episode of the Stressless Camping podcast, it's free to subscribe on any podcast catcher and we, we are saving you a seat around our virtual campfire. I don't know okay.
Peggy Barthel
That's for the people who are watching and can't hear. We are saving you a seat.
Tony Barthel
Oh, my gosh.
Peggy Barthel
Oh, boy. Okay, so anyway, a review will help others find these podcast podcasts.
Peggy Barthel
More listeners means we can, can we can get great guests, come up with great topics, share trailer giveaways. So if you haven't already left a review, we would really appreciate it if you would do so. If you have already. Thank you very, very much for doing so.
Tony Barthel
And of course, don't forget to like and share.
Tony Barthel
Well, you already said the like part, but share with your friends. Share with people in the grocery store. Write our name on a bathroom, bathroom wall, whatever. If it's a chalkboard ball, whatever. We appreciate whatever.
Peggy Barthel
Got a rattle can. Don't get arrested. Don't get arrested on our part.
Tony Barthel
Well, we, we appreciate your being here. Thank you again for joining us, some of you. 303 episodes. My gosh.
Peggy Barthel
Yeah, thank you.
Tony Barthel
And that is a whole lot of stressless camping.
Mark Ferrell
We hope you learned a lot and had some fun and got some tips for your next stress less 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.
Speaker 5
Until then, happy camping.
Tony Barthel
That was awesome.
