This week on the Rv podcast. Off grid Rv living in the desert we'll learn how 1 rv has found his own piece of paradise in Arizona. And the latest on the brutal knife attack on an elderly Rv couple at a Nebraska arrest area that left the husband dead of the wife fighting for her life. There are a lot of people who are very disappointed. About rising internet costs for on the go rv viewers. All, this plus the Rv news of the week and your questions, coming up in episode 05:03 of the Rv podcast.
Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Went Lemon. This just my lifelong traveling companion and bride, Jennifer. Hello, mister Wright. Just a quick reminder that this podcast they're course is available on all of your favorite podcast apps. And also there is a video version that you can find on our Rv lifestyle channel. We invite you to check that out at youtube dot com s slash rv lifestyle.
So it's a delight to be with you, and this is gonna be another very busy week for us, starting with the announcement of our latest Rv lifestyle travel guide ebook, our 20 third, and this 1 is called the ultimate Rv guide to Yosemite National park. I feel like I should have. Something that's throw in the air? Or I could yeah. Something. Yeah. Can you believe... I mean, 23 books. Did you ever envision that when we started this over a dozen years ago? No. I never did imagine that. But I
think it's exciting. And, just great reviews. We thank those of you who who've have been reading it since we announced it on Sunday night on our, Ask us anything program. We are very excited about this books. It's available for immediate download, go to rv lifestyle dot com. Forward slash yosemite. Rv lifestyle dot com slash yosemite, and we'll find a if we say so ourself a meticulously curated 99 page book. That's not a print book.
This offers everything you need for an incredible Rv experience at your Yosemite National Park, custom interact maps camping recommendations, lots of different daily you can take and whether you're a seasoned Rv enthusiasts or if this is the first time, this guide will help you make the most of your visit, we are really excited about that. And then, this weekend, starting Saturday. Yeah. We're gonna release our latest Rv review series. This time looking at 1 of the fastest
growing segments of the motor home industry. The small class a. These have been incredibly pal filler in recent years with most rv ears wanting more room or just not too much room. Small Rv are under 30 feet long. And we just finished finished testing 3 representative models. Starting Saturday, June 20 ninth we'll release them. Back to back. We'll review the thor axis on Saturday, June 29.
The Win Vista National Parks edition Sunday, June t, the Coach euro on Monday, July first, and then we'll give you the 1 we think is the best of the 3, on Tuesday, July second, so please make sure you subscribe to our Rv lifestyle Youtube channel. When you do that, click that bell icon, and you'll get a notice when new vi are released and we'd love you have you subscribe. So what are we gonna review next? We're going to review... We're gonna be testing 3 new class c models. In fact, as you
read this? Oh it be camping the same spot in the same campground, so the reviews are done in similar surroundings. We do our reviews a little differently than most youtubers that you see reviewing Rv. Instead of, you know, 15 minutes on a dealer lot or at an Rv show Jen and I actually drive them. We camp overnight in them. And then based on experience, we share our thoughts. On experience based on real use.
So we have bunch more reviews in the planning stage and 1 of the benefits of having our home base here in Southwest, Michigan is that were just a short drive from Elk carte, Indiana. The Rv capital of the world and we'll be checking out a lot of new models in the weeks ahead, and we'll be visiting various manufacturers and try to give you an early peak at what's it's coming for 20 25.
Now besides the Class C's, we have more class b's to show you and some slightly larger camper van known as b plus models. So stay tuned. Yep. If you have a comment or a question or you have a particular Rv you'd like us to review, send it to us in a private email, Mike and jen at rv lifestyle dot com. Okay. We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we've got Wendy Boy and the social media Rv buzz. Stay with this.
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Wendy Boy is our social media guru. She kinda keeps everybody on track and coordinates our team of moderators, and she reports on all of the hot issues most talked about over the past week on social media in our Rv lifestyle community group and in our Rv lifestyle Facebook group. Here's Wendy. Hi, everybody. Over in our Rv lifestyle communities general discussion space. We had a recent post from Christy and Gary, and they were
getting their very first Rv. And as you can imagine, they were super excited, but They had been reading some Facebook post where people are sharing horror stories. So they were also getting really nervous and finding themselves flip flap between super excited and super nervous And so they asked the group if you could give us 1 piece of advice that you truly wish someone had given you before you chose this lifestyle, what would it be? And they got some great tips here.
Bob and Ro. They said make sure you keep your sense of humor and your patience and in the beginning, there's a learning curve, but it's gonna be great. Susie suzanne, she suggested that they take a shake down trip really close to home maybe even in their own driveway. Learn their rig, learn how things work, make some lists for hooking up, unhook, setting up, you know, tearing down just to gain their confidence.
In Brenda and Mark, they said, remember there's gonna be good days and there's gonna be bad days, but the bad days can be fixed. And they suggested that Christy and Gary just keep their rig while paint, have those checklists, pack some tools, and not be afraid to ask for help. So great discussion later. Also in the communities general discussion space, greg, with very hot weather, the our air conditioning in our Rv is seldom keeping up. What can I do? And boy, It sure has
been hot out. Hasn't it in much of the country. So this Scott people talking and there were some good tips here. Mark, he suggested taking the inside cover off the air conditioner and putting duct tape over all the seams. She said manufacturing can be really sloppy. And when he did this, it made a big difference, and he also suggested getting some foil to put over the outside windows to help with the heat, And Richard, he installed AW0 silence on his 2 acs and he said
not only is it cooler inside. It's also quieter. And, Randall, he had a previous travel trailer where he used a dehumidifier in the hot days, and he said it made a huge difference. So there's a couple of the good tips that were in that post. And then over on our Rv lifestyle Facebook group, we had a post from Kay, and she said getting ready to stack the camper what are some must haves and some tips, tricks and hacks.
And this was a really fun 1 to read because there just were a lot of things that put people shared, you know, some you had your joe stir who said, y. What do you need? You need to bring your alcohol. But then there were things like those items that you need when camping that you might forget like can opener or a fly water, maybe a flashlight, bug spray, lighter match. And then there were also those things that you should have for your safety. Like a fire ex, some basic tools, first aid kit.
And then are things that are just helpful. Like, maybe a nice rug for outside your rig or a portable and rechargeable vacuum cleaner or even a ice maker if you have room. And then there were these hacks that were fun to read. 1 of them was from Ginny. She suggested getting a shower cap app and putting that over the smoke arm in the Rv kitchen. She says she puts that shower over a smoke alarm and then it doesn't go off when she cooks. And if she doesn't use it, the alarm goes off when she cooks.
And also tied to the kitchen was 1 from, 1 about the stove, and it had to do with putting a pizza stone inside your stove, and that was from Lisa. She said it just really helps if you're gonna be cooking while you're out there rv being, it helps to keep things from burning and maintain a steady temperature. So those were 2 of the hacks that were very helpful. And this for me this week, I'm Wendy Bo, and I'll see you over in the
Rv life's style community or Facebook group? Well, man, they really had to use those air conditioners that, Wendy talked about this this past week. Yeah. That's so good sharing about how to keep your Rv cool when it's so hot outside. So people different things that they do to under are. When the mid section and the northern plains all the way to the East coast last week and crazy weather this early in the summer. And also, you can't go wrong for a newbie.
You know when they say hell, what do I need to know because experienced our ears wanna share. The things that they have learn the things that they've forgotten when they take off, remind you about those checklists. Yep. And and if you wanna be a part of all that, we urge you to join our Rv lifestyle community group, and it's, community dot rv lifestyle dot com. You will find a very friendly warm welcoming helpful group and we would love to have you be
a part of that group with us. Again, it's community dot rv b lifestyle dot com. Alright. When we come back, we're gonna take you to Mo mojave County, Arizona in the middle of the desert where we met an Rv who is building an off grid Rv paradise out there for himself, and we'll show you how he's doing it and talk about it. In our discussion of the week coming up after this. Jennifer and I bought some land near Nashville,
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Welcome back time now for our discussion of the week. Not long ago, during a trip to Arizona, we met an Rv nick Eric Ja, who is transforming 5 acre 5 acre parcel of land he bought in the Arizona desert into an off grid paradise. He showed us how he's doing it, drawing power from the sun, making a garden, turning 2 old shipping containers into an office, all while living, in his travel trailer. Now,
Eric is a city person. He grew up in detroit, lived in New York for a long time and then took a job as a salesman for a land development company based in Las Vegas, And he liked this land so much He bought 5 acres for himself. It's about an hour or a little more nat from Las Vegas, Nevada, in the middle of the desert. And Eric says he is learning as he goes, and he says that if he can do it, anyone can.
And we got him to sit down and have a discussion and end tour of this off grid paradise that he's making right out there in the middle of the desert. Here's Eric. I'm a few miles off, route 66 in middle of Mojave County, Arizona. In the desert, And I've come to visit Eric Gary is a guy of interviewed before. He part of a land up with the company out in the west. And what I wanna talk to him is about living off the grid in the desert on our vlan.
This standing in front of his small little 20 foot mighty light trailer where he has been living, But he's doing so much more. Here he comes now. He's pulling up into his red 4 months. We're in a cowboy I hat. Hi, Eric. Hey, Mike. How are you? Dis everybody to you, man, and thank you for making some time to talk on the the podcast about living in your own Rv land in the desert. And I know you have... This is a working in progress that we're at. You are... You've been staying in your in your tow.
How long have you been out here? I've been going... I've been out here for a year and a half now, staying in my mighty light, and Yeah. It served its purpose. I have hook ups and you know, it's a work in progress. Now we should point out that you are off grid. We say you have hook ups, but you put in a a septic field. So you have sewer. But I thought we could have you show and tell because we are on a podcast. All about some of the other stuff that you've built.
And are in the process of building. And as I look around, I see, some containers, shipping containers. You have 2, and you have plans for a third. What are you gonna do with shipping containers? Yeah. Absolutely Mike. So, this has always been a dream of mine, and I am actually building a container home, we have, my rooftop deck. We have a garage, living room, bedroom. As well as, an office space that we're doing.
I have a standalone luxury bathroom, all running on solar, How much solar do you do you need to be pretty much self sufficient off the grid? Well, with 300 and Think, 38 days of sun's sunshine out here, solar is the perfect solution. For the solar system I have, you know, very robust, and, I like to say it's lean and mean. You know, I can run my star length, my bathroom, my water pumps, my heaters, cement mixer, all of these things were being,
you know, utilizing 1 little system. Now what is it about the desert that has so captivated you enough to build an off grid ranch out here? Well, the peace and quiet number 1. You know? I mean, if you if if you just come out here in the morning or it it actually doesn't matter what time of day. I mean, it's just There's a calm about the desert that you just can't find anywhere else. You know, you have mountain views, 360 degree views around the sunsets, you know, every night. It's a
different show. You know, to go out there and I put on my deck and you know, see that's the sunset. It's just amazing. Let me talk about a couple of things. You have Star Link. How does Star link work for the internet. Start travels with it not working? Star link is phenomenal out here. You know, III work from here as much as I can and the only... Way I can do that is with my star link. So what do you what do you do about water out here. Let's talk a little bit more about how you've been able to
pull this all the together? Yeah. That that's a that's a great question. So, water was 1 of my concerns, you know, initially, and then, you know, I have learned because I'm a city guy. I have learned to do when everybody else does out here. I have a 2500 gallon water tank. I choose to have my water delivered. It's about 200 dollars for 2000 gallons of of pot water. How long will that last? Well, my first try. It lasted over a year of me just coming out on the weekends.
Really Absolutely. Absolutely. And it... And you don't have to take real quick showers? Nope. That's for sure. Yeah that's for sure. Yeah how do you keep that much water from spoiling? You know, they're special tanks, the water does not go bad. You don't have to put any chemicals into the the water. And you know, if as long as you're using it. I mean, it's gonna stay stay stay good in that tank for probably 2 years,
3 years. And you were timing a little while ago about it something that you're you have coming that will actually pull water out of this desert area. Yeah. That's a a great new project coming out of Scottsdale, Arizona, it's called hydro panels. They look like a solar panel. They put 1 unit produces enough drinking water for 2 individuals to to survive on and live on. Like that crust. 3000 dollars. Really? That's correct. And yes. Totally sustainable.
Yeah. Yeah. It's... Again and like I said they're made right here in the Usa, out of Scottsdale, Arizona. Alright. So we saw the water problem. What I wanted talk about is you... You have in this bathroom in shower. You got all that gray water. You obviously rec circulate that. How what how what does that use for? Well, you know, water is such a valuable resource in the desert. That we want to make sure that we're
recycling it. So all my gray, from my systems goes into 55 gallon, drum we have buried in the ground, which I can use for, you know, whether it's washing, you know, my Atv or like, gardening and flowers Let's take a quick look at that at this bathroom. It is a... As I look at it, it looks like looks like a shed. Was in the size of it is, it's about 10 by 08:10 by 8, And it's a big door with a lock on it. And as we walk inside, there is a glass shower,
full shower, hot water. Right? I saw the propane tanks throughout it? He's turning on the water out pump, and it's lots of pressure, a window and the side, that cabinet, a real flush toilet. It goes into a septic field. Yeah. You put a septic field in for up to a 3 bedroom miles house Right? Yeah. 3 4 bedroom mile. So this is pretty good. Now, this gray water that comes from the shower. Is that gonna be used for your garden? It's gonna be used for some of the gardening.
Here is 1 of these tanks. This one's a hundred gallon tank. This is 500. We're gonna be replacing the water tote here. Okay. This is gonna be the permanent water solution for the bathroom unit. And we're gonna take this 300 gallon tote, and we're actually gonna put that over by the garden with its own solar system and drip system on a solar timer. So when I'm in Las Vegas, my plants will continue to be watered and taken care of. And this this black tank here will will be...
What will this be used for? This is gonna be, for my shower and bathroom unit. Okay. And this is a tote that you can you can throw up on a pickup, I guess and move over. Exactly. And this will this will do the the, this will do the garden. While we're right here here is his outdoor, battery and power center, all the plumbing is in. I'm looking at lots of the lines running. A lithium battery. And I wonder if it's a solar show.
I'm looking here was 2000 watt inverter, And his solar charge controllers says show how much you're getting to there now? Charge current 8.4 amps, hundred and 20 watts. Hundred and 20 watts coming right now through those solar panels. That's gonna charge this life pull 4 260 amp hour or lithium battery that you have. Water pumps all set for all of your stuff. Correct. And it's hard to believe how you have
developed all of this. Up on the top, I'm not gonna go up there, but up on the top of the the storage container you've built a little observation deck. Yes. This was the crown jewel for me. And what are you gonna... I would imagine that's a great place to have a couple coffee in the morning. Cup coffee in the morning and the survey in the evening
lot that sun goes down. But, you know, most people are 1 I should say 1 of the reasons everybody comes out here for these views and having a deck to enjoy the view was very, very important to me. And the in the background is the is the big... Is the main water tank, which is the 2500 gallon. Correct. Correct last fair. And I... We have to go back and take a look at your garden. There is a small garden. Now, we live in a really nice climate out
here. But tell me about what you expect to grow, and, you were saying back and you through your camera system, you can actually activate the the drip and the irrigation? Yes. So we're gonna do a solar system You know, as you can see, I do not have a green thumb. So last year, our last summer, I threw a bunch of seats out here just to see what would happen. Was watering it once a week. And everything grew like crazy.
The peak of summer, watering it once a week, really didn't work, So everything did die eye unfortunately, but, the fact is everything will flourish out here as long as there's water. So we are gonna be taking that 300 gallon tote and, have a drip system running on solar and a timer. So it's gonna water all the plants and and vegetables in the morning and that night when I'm in Las Vegas.
It's pretty neat. And and there's quite a community developing out there around Eric, and, this is perfect lead into our commercial from, our, larry Eric land company, which is sponsoring this part of the Rv podcast, but really nice out there. And we do? Yeah. I I know... I mean, we've always liked the desert, but to actually be able to stay in it for a long period of time. It is so peaceful. And so beautiful.
And that little parcel of the land is a as Eric said is a is a little higher than most of the desert, so it doesn't get quite so warm actually, it was cooler out there last week than it was here in in Southwest Michigan. Alright. When we come back. Right after this message about Arizona land that you can get. Jennifer and I took a trip to Las Vegas and Arizona to look at wind mail acres a brand new Rv property being offered by Western land and ranches.
They're selling off 1 and 2 acre parcels starting at only 14900 dollars. Now these are big. And an acre is the size of a football field. The properties are on a Plateau with big valley views, and the location is amazing. Next to Lake Mead national recreation area. We had a blast. There are so many places to explore near the property, the Grand Canyon. We took a boat ride on the Colorado river below Hoover down. Boulder city was a fun little town.
That's right off route 66, and, of course, we had to enjoy some nightlife in Las Vegas. It's a lifetime supply of fun things to do when you own a camp at wind acres. The properties are now available. This is 100 percent ownership. So there's no reservations needed when you wanna hang out, time limits or crowded parks that you have to go through. You can share your property, you can rent it. Whatever you wanna do. For more information, visit arizona ranch sales dot com. Or call 822232 land.
Welcome back, and now it's time for the Rv news of the week. And we've got a very tragic story to open with. An the Rv couple was staffed, 2 days into an Rv trip. To visit their son in the West Coast, and this happened in vault places Nebraska. It was a failed robbery and they had stopped at a rest area along West brown I 80 near Grand Island in Nebraska. They're from Missouri, they've been married 46 years they were on
their first Rv trip since the pandemic. And expecting the drive to Portland, Oregon to take 3 days, but on day 2, around 7 in the morning, Since last Wednesday, they were attacked. Gary Weaver, 72 died from stab wounds and his wife, Mary Weaver 71 is hospitalized and now stable condition. Witnesses heard their attacker demand the keys to their jeep, which they they were towing. And then this 22 year old man allegedly went into the Rv and stabbed Gary, and then Mary.
And this was all caught, much of it on a trucker dashcam cam in the rest area. Now it wasn't clear if the weaver spent the night at the rest area as many of us do on long drives, but since this attack happened at 7AM, I I wouldn't be. Surprise if if they did. And the 22 year old fled after stabbing them and led police on a chase before being caught. Some 20 miles away with the help of a police dog. The weaver... They've traveled all over the country in their Rv according to their daughter.
Our hearts go out to the Weaver family. No. Wisconsin, another big story, and, boy, this is something I never thought I'd see. Wisconsin Department of Natural resources is telling people not to harvest the Sa aca. At the state parks in a press release after receiving numerous reports of people collecting these rather gross looking Red eyed insects. At big foot beach state park. Why at earth would people be
harvesting them? This is the year the Sa aca, a cup apocalypse, record brew emerging in parts of the country and many as 1 point fell 5000000 Sa per acre at some places. And brew 13, which emerges once every 17 years is the Sa aca brew in Wisconsin, but why would people harvest them? Well, rumor has it Sa aca do have a high nutritional values So, you know, maybe people are gathering these bugs for pet birds or reptile. But the Wisconsin Dnr used the word harvest.
And I'd really like to think people are not eating them, though they are safe for human consumption. You know, either way, it should be common knowledge that you can't take plants or wildlife out of state parks, and wildlife does include insects. So we interviewed a Sa k expert earlier this year and learned a lot of interesting things about this unusual bug. We'll we'll put a link to it in the in the show
notes for this episode. You can find out show notes always at rv lifestyle dot com slash podcast, but don't you dare try which see or sugar me adding Sa I bet there probably nutritional good and not a lot of calories in them. I would think they'd be grateful that people were picking them up health clean in them up because as I understand that they get pretty thick and stinky and... I don't know. But, I mean, rules are rules. Rules are rules.
But don't harvest ci aca for you too Well, this is that time of the year when wildfires start to, become, pretty commonplace in parts of the Southwest and we wanna remind everybody to make sure you are closely following warnings and weather reports as you out there camping. There's been a bunch of fires already. The needles fire burned at least 200 acres in Southern California along the Arizona border causing evacuation last week.
Fire restrictions are now in place for the Grand Canyon national park, and a fire north of Sacramento in Ka County burned about 20000 acres was near the east park reservoir campground out there. In New Mexico, the Fbi is offering a 10000 dollar reward for information by whoever was responsible for starting 2 wire fires, the south fork fire and the salt fire both in the southern part of the state, and they killed 2 people and destroyed hundreds of homes.
New Mexico campground round, the River ranch Rv park escape the fire, but then, they suffered a flash blood caused in part by the fire destroying vegetation followed by heavy rains. Our viewers of the water, by the way, came into that campground so fast. So powerfully. It moved propane. It turned over heavy 15000 pound Rv, left 3 inches of mud in the campground laundry room in Bath house.
Do you know that about 87 percent of all the wildfires are caused by people and many of whom we're camping at the time. Nick was about a year ago. We interviewed an expert who gave us tips and what all of us can do to real due the chance of starting a wildfire and we will we will find that and put a link to it in the show notes. So check that out. But speaking of fire, some firefight fighting. Let's end on kind of a happy note. This was a pretty fun story. Did you see the picture of Archie, the
cat? He was stuck in a tree at Grand Canyon National Park, making the rounds over the weekend? The black and white spotted cat was discovered stuck in a tree near the math or campground ground and the south rim. His front and back caused dangling over a pine tree limb 15 feet in the air with a sad and resigned expression on his face. Firefighters came to his rescue with the help of a ladder they rescued the poor critter. You really need to look at that picture pictures
so you're gonna appreciate his little face. And you'll find it rv lifestyle dot com slash podcast. They did find his owners by. That's good. Yeah. While it turned out the 2 year old cat lived in a residential. Area near the campground, not at an rv. It was still a great reminder for our viewers to make sure you have the tools you need to make camping with a cat successful. Like, a good lock. Keep them from going that side. Alright. We're gonna take quick break, and we've got,
Rv questions the week. And Mike and Chen Rv story time coming up. Right after this. When we're asked, what's the most important modification we made to our Rv. It's an easy answer. Battle borne batteries. Battle borne batteries are quality safe, reliable lithium batteries that allow us to stay out there off the grid longer. Lithium batteries charge faster They charge fuller they're longer lasting their maintenance free, and battle borne batteries are protected by a 10 year guarantee.
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Welcome back everybody time now for our Rv question of the week. You got the question. I do. We have been using T Mobile unlimited 50 dollars a month home planned in our Rv as we travel. I just heard that they are stopping this plan that it will now cost us a hundred and 60 a month. Is this true? And what can we do about it? And that question comes from Nicola. And yes, It is true,
and there's nothing you can do about. I mean, Demo mobile will tell you that they never meant that it's 50 dollar a month home plan, some people paid 60 dollars a month for it. To be used by Rv years or no. Although indeed, many of them like Hu michele have been doing so. And without any problem. But that plan is only supposed to be for those who are using it in... Is for stationary use at a home. Our ears found, they can take along that hotspot spot and they get unlimited data and
it was really a pretty good deal. 50 bucks a month. But that is all all being done away with. The home plan will now, or soon will. It's still kinda working in many spots. It will work only at home And if you wanna take it with you, you're gonna have to enroll in a new plan called the Away plan, which you'd like you say, is a hundred and 60 a up.
And now they announced this back in April, and it was supposed to take effect in May and there were some technical problems or something and it didn't take effect and now T Mobile only says, I looked at their website coming soon. But the bottom line is that any day now, you're mobile use of the old home plan will be blocked. You still can use the home plan, but they are going to be a lot of very disappointed Rv like Mikhail because many of you were using that unlimited home plan for your Rv.
And this is the nature of Internet access for our years. 1 thing you can count on is whatever price you have now, you will have to pay more for. It's expensive. It's getting more so, and it's not just T Mobile that's causing a lot of people to be very disappointed right now. Star is disappointing a lot of our views. I don't know if you heard that Son announced a a while back. They have a new program using something called a mini dish antenna. It's
it's pretty cool. It's actually it's very it's small, small enough to fit in a backpack. And it's it's meant for mobile use or for people outside of their their fixed locations, and it was supposed to start sometime this summer. Still hasn't quite started. We don't know when. When they first announced this people got so excited because at 30 bucks a month, this new mini rome plan, it's probably the best deal we ever heard about. Starbucks. Start is it's awesome. But now we have seen some of the
details of that plan. And it's not so awesome. A lot of disappointment. For 1, the mini dish equipment is is gonna cost 599 dollars. That's a hundred bucks more than the standard dish dishes and antenna that they have. And that 30 dollars a month service has a lot of catches in it. First of all, limited data, there are speed caps
and there are lots of restrictions. In fact, the 30 dollars per month mini room data plan is only available as an add on For existing 120 dollar per month Star Link residential customers. They pay a hundred and 20 bucks for that for residential service and they can get the mini days mini plan for an extra 30 so the total costs end up being a hundred and 50 bucks a month. Now, Elon Musk has said that he wants his star link to be more affordable, and this new plan sure doesn't seem to
fit that goal. Doesn't. No. It doesn't somebody at Star link isn't listening to the boss or maybe the boss is just blowing smoke. I don't know. But you know, the the reality is is that it's gonna cost you about a hundred and 50 bucks a month. Give or take for whatever kind... If you want reliable Internet, it's gonna take it. It's gonna cost you that much. And you can also be sure it's gonna go higher and they're always changing the details.
You have a question for us. We'd love to answer our email addresses, Mike and Jen. At rv lifestyle dot com. Alright. Story time with Mike and jen. Well, we all make mistakes, and we all learn from mistakes. This week, I share 1 of my most embarrassing mistakes. I can't believe you were ever embarrassed. We were at Glacier National Park, and we were holding 1 of our gatherings, and we were camped at the chewing Black bone Rv park. That's on the black feet
reservation, the western end of the park. And on the last evening of her gathering, the tribe came to visit us. The chiefs welcomed us personally, and then the tribe treated us to an evening of music and tribal dancing, and it was awesome. It it it was so much fun.
And at the end of their dancing and drumming demonstration, and the performers all of them in native dress, complete with head dresses, grabbed all of us campers that came grabbed all by the hand and brought us into a huge circle to participate, in the final dance with them. Here's a little bit of what it was like. I wish I captured this embarrassing moment but it happened after I turned off the camera, but here here's what the... This part was like.
So anyway, as this dance reached its end, I turned off the camera, but is at the height, the drumming and the music, we all started to move around in a circle and then we were gonna go move forward and back together everybody holding hands and that's when it happened. As we started to move forward, Jennifer suddenly fell. She disappeared. 1 of her feet dropped into a very deep gop hole and everything stopped. Loud gas was heard as the dramas and the
chanting when suddenly silent. Every eye was on Jennifer, who had 1 leg knee deep the go for hole. You you could have heard a pin drop as 1 second pass and 2 then 3, or she had a puzzled look on her face, was she in pain, had she broken a bone suffered to brain. But then as if The hand of God reached down. She suddenly would jumped up and there she was looking at everybody. I was aware that suddenly, I had become the focus of everyone. I just gave a big smile and shrugged.
And, luckily, I didn't get hurt. And then the drumming and the chanting be resumed almost as if nothing had happened. I'm sure I was blushing. So what's the lesson I learned from my embarrassing moment, the watch where you step. And if you stumble and fall, get right back up, and keep smiling if it's possible to get right back up again, and the show always goes down, and you might be part of the show unintentionally.
But you know what? That's That's really good a good lesson for life, you know, just... We're all gonna stumble and fall, so get up, keep smiling and go on. The show goes on. But at that campground, there were so many gop holes. They were. There were tons of them, and when you're forward written backwards dancing rounded in circles and I zeta. Grateful sold that I didn't hurt myself. When I stepped in that hole. But it was so funny. There was just this
Everything stopped. And everybody, had looked at it, and she gets out and this you know, big grand. You've seen her big grand. And and then everybody... Okay. Whatever went right back to. Yeah. Alright. It's our story of the week. You got a comment. You got a question, send them to us. We love to get them mike jen at rv lifestyle dot com. And that's it for this week. We will be back with another podcast. Next week, and we can't wait to see you then. Thank you guys so much for
watching. Happy trails.